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Allison Janney

Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress. A character actress, Janney is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Filmography

The Creator

2023
as Colonel Howell

To Leslie

2022
as Nancy

Lou

2022
as Lou

Breaking News In Yuba County

2021
as Sue Buttons

The Addams Family 2

2021
as Margaux Needler

Bad Education

2020
as Pam Gluckin

Troop Zero

2020
as Miss Massey

Lazy Susan

2020
as Velvet

Bombshell

2019
as Susan Estrich

The Addams Family

2019
as Margaux Needler (voice)

Ma

2019
as Doctor Brooks

Sun Dogs

2017
as Rose Chipley

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

2017
as Principal Nichols

I, Tonya

2017
as LaVona Golden

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016
as Dr. Golan

The Girl On The Train

2016
as Detective Sgt. Riley

Finding Dory

2016
as Peach (voice)

Tallulah

2016
as Margo

A Book of Common Prayer

2015
as Grace Strasser-Mendana

The Night Is Young

2015
as Wanda

The DUFF

2015
as Dottie Piper

Binky Nelson Unpacified

2015
as Madge Nelson (voice)

Minions

2015
as Madge Nelson (voice)

Spy

2015
as Elaine Crocker

Brightest Star

2014
as The Astronomer

Days and Nights

2014
as Elizabeth

Get on Up

2014
as Kathy

The Rewrite

2014
as Mary Weldon

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014
as Ms. Grunion (voice)

Tammy

2014
as Deb

Touchy Feely

2013
as Bronwyn

Trust Me

2013
as Meg

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013
as Narrator (voice)

Bad Words

2013
as Dr. Bernice Deagan

The Way Way Back

2013
as Betty Thompson

Struck by Lightning

2012
as Sheryl Phillips

Celia

2012
as Celia

Liberal Arts

2012
as Professor Judith Fairfield

A Thousand Words

2012
as Samantha Davis

Margaret

2011
as Wounded Woman

The Oranges

2011
as Carol Ostroff

The Help

2011
as Charlotte Phelan

Away We Go

2009
as Lily

Pretty Ugly People

2009
as Suzanna

Life During Wartime

2009
as Trish

Hairspray

2007
as Prudy Pringleton

Juno

2007
as Bren MacGuff

Strangers with Candy

2006
as Alice

Over the Hedge

2006
as Gladys (voice)

The Chumscrubber

2005
as Allie Stiffle

Our Very Own

2005
as Joan Whitfield

Piccadilly Jim

2005
as Eugenia Crocker

Winter Solstice

2004
as Molly Ripkin

How to Deal

2003
as Lydia Martin

Finding Nemo

2003
as Peach (voice)

Rooftop Kisses

2002
as Melissa

The Hours

2002
as Sally Lester

A Girl Thing

2001
as Kathy McCormack

Nurse Betty

2000
as Lyla Branch

10 Things I Hate About You

1999
as Ms. Perky

American Beauty

1999
as Barbara Fitts

The Debtors

1999

Drop Dead Gorgeous

1999
as Loretta

David and Lisa

1998
as Alix

The Impostors

1998

Celebrity

1998
as Evelyn Isaacs

Six Days Seven Nights

1998
as Marjorie

The Object of My Affection

1998
as Constance Miller

Primary Colors

1998
as Miss Walsh

Anita Liberty

1997
as Gynecologist

Julian Po

1997
as Lilah Leech

The Ice Storm

1997
as Dot Halford

...First Do No Harm

1997
as Dr. Melanie Abbasac

Private Parts

1997
as Dee Dee

Faithful

1996
as Saleslady

The Associate

1996
as Sandy

Walking and Talking

1996
as Gum Puller

Big Night

1996
as Ann

Heading Home

1995
as Mary Polanski

The Cowboy Way

1994
as NYPD Computer Operator

Dead Funny

1994
as Jennifer

Miracle on 34th Street

1994
as Woman in Christmas Shop

Wolf

1994
as Party Guest

Who Shot Patakango?

1989
as Miss Penny

A Simple Favor 2