LINK TO THE ALLISON JANNEY GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Name: Allison Brooks Janney
Date of Birth: 19th November, 1959
Born in: Boston
Currently Resides: LA, California
Hometown: Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio
Height: 6ft (1.83m)
Shoe Size: 11
Father: Jervis Spencer Janney (President of a real estate firm, former jazz musician) (born 1935)
Mother: Macy Janney, born Macy Putnam (former actress, home maker)
Siblings: 2 brothers, Jay, a professional bass player (born 1958), and Hal, a freelance computer programmer (born 1961)
Partner: Dennis Gagomiros (computer programmer, actor- born 1951) together 1994-2002 Richard Jenik (actor, fiance- born 1967)
Grandfather: Stuart Janney (owner of famous racehorses includian Ruffian)
Aunt: Eloise Spencer Janney (born 1933)
Education: Miami Valley School in Oakwood, Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, Kenyon College (BA in Drama, 1982), RADA London, New York's Neighborhood Playhouse
First job: Selling vinyl handbags in a department store in Dayton, Ohio
Other non-acting jobs: waitress, ice cream scooper, and night receptionist at a broadcasting company
First professional acting job: "Citizen Tom Payne", a play
First acting performance: playing the part of the undertaker's son in "Oliver" in sixth grade
Celebrity crushes: Bobby Sherman, Davey Jones, Paul Newman, George Clooney
Childhood dream job: Olympic figure ice-skater
Sports played at school: lacrosse, field hockey and co-ed ice hockey
Political leaning: left-wing
Professional idol: Meryl Streep
Idol: Susan B. Anthony
MILESTONES:
1977 Injured at a party when after someone stepped on her strapless gown, she ran through a glass door
1982 After graduation, moved to NYC to attend Neighborhood Playhouse
1994 Had recurring role of wisecracking maid on the CBS daytime drama "Guiding Light"
1994 Feature film debut, bit role in "The Cowboy Way"
1994 First prominent stage role, "Fat Men in Skirts" by Nicky Silver; first collaboration with Stanley Tucci
1996 Breakthrough screen role, Ann, the floral shop owner, in "Big Night", co-written and co-directed by Tucci
1996 Broadway debut opposite Frank Langella in revival of Noel Coward's "Present Laughter"
1997 Appeared in "Private Parts" and "The Ice Storm"
1998 Had featured roles in "Primary Colors", "The Object of My Affection" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous"
1998 Returned to Broadway opposite Anthony LaPaglia in "A View From the Bridge"; received Tony nomination
1998 Reunited with Tucci for "The Impostors"; played a con artist aboard a luxury liner in this period comedy
1999 Primetime series debut as regular playing a presidential press secretary in the NBC series "The West Wing"; earned Golden Globe (2002, 2003), SAG (2002, 2004, 2005) and Emmy
1999 Cast as what she described as "the most depressed woman ever" in "American Beauty"
1999 Played "a trashy woman with a Minnesota accent" in the comedy "Drop Dead Gorgeous"
1999 Tackled first Shakespearean role as Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew", opposite Jay O Sanders in NYC's Central Park
2000 Had a memorable supporting role in "Nurse Betty" as an acerbic soap opera writer-producer
2001 Joined the all-female cast of the comedy-drama telepic "A Girl Thing"
2002 Played Sally Lester, the lesbian lover of Clarissa Vaughn (played by Streep) in the film version of the award-winning novel "The Hours"
2003 Played the mother in the feature "How To Deal"
2003 nominations for Best Actress in a Drama Series
2003 Voiced Peach in the Pixar animated feature "Finding Nemo"
2005 Co-starred in Arie Posin's ensemble "The Chumscrubber," a darkly satiric story about life crumbling in the midst of a seemingly idyllic suburbia
2005 Co-starred in the drama "Our Very Own"; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Supporting Female
2006 Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series for the last season of "The West Wing"
2006 Voiced Gladys, the president of the local homeowners' association in the animated comedy "Over the Hedge"
FILM BIOGRAPHY
Margaret (2006)
Over the Hedge (2006)
Our Very Own (2005)
The Chumscrubber (2005)
Strangers with Candy (2005)
Winter Solstice (2004)
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Chicken Party (2003)
How to Deal (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Hours (2002)
Rooftop Kisses (2002)
A Girl Thing(2001)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Auto Motives (2000)
Leaving Drew (2000)
The Debtors (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
David and Lisa (1998)
Celebrity (1998)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
The Impostors (1998)
The Object of My Affection (1998)
Primary Colors (1998)
Julian Po (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Private Parts (1997)
Anita Liberty (1997)
The Associate (1996)
Faithful (1996)
Big Night (1996)
Walking and Talking (1996)
Flux (1996)
Heading Home (1995)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Wolf (1994)
The Cowboy Way (1994)
Dead Funny (1994)
Blind Spot (1993)
Who Shot Patakango? (1989)
THEATRE BIOGRAPHY
Citizen Tom Paine (1985)
Undiscovered Country (1985)
Eleanor (1986)
Hawthorne Country (1986)
Prescribed Laughter
Idioglossia
Ladies (1989)
Velvet Elvis (1989-1990)
One Neck
Lilith
Bad Habits (1990)
Inspecting Carol
Making Book
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (1993)
Alone at the Beach (1993)
Breaking Up (1993)
I Can't Stop Thinking Today (1993-1994)
Fat Men In Skirts (1994)
New England (1995)
The House of Yes (1995)
Blue Window (1996)
Present Laughter (1996 - 1997)
Long Days Journey into Night (1997)
A View From the Bridge (1998)
The Taming of the Shrew (1999)
TELEVISION BIOGRAPHY
Morton & Hayes (1991)
Law & Order (1992)
The Guiding Light (1993 - 1995)
Law & Order (1994)
The Wright Verdicts (1995)
New York Undercover (1995)
Aliens in the Family (1996)
Cosby (1996)
LateLine (1999)
The West Wing (1999 - 2006)
Fraiser (2002)
Saturday Night Live (2002)
King of the Hill (2003)
Weeds (2005)
