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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

Minions

2015
as Madge Nelson (voice)

Finding Dory

2016
as Peach (voice)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

2016
as Dr. Golan

I, Tonya

2017
as LaVona Golden

The Help

2011
as Charlotte Phelan

Spy

2015
as Elaine Crocker

The Girl On The Train

2016
as Detective Sgt. Riley

Finding Nemo

2003
as Peach (voice)

10 Things I Hate About You

1999
as Ms. Perky

The Creator

2023
as Colonel Howell

Over the Hedge

2006
as Gladys (voice)

Lou

2022
as Lou

The Addams Family

2019
as Margaux Needler (voice)

Bombshell

2019
as Susan Estrich

American Beauty

1999
as Barbara Fitts

The DUFF

2015
as Dottie Piper

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014
as Ms. Grunion (voice)

Juno

2007
as Bren MacGuff

Ma

2019
as Doctor Brooks

Hairspray

2007
as Prudy Pringleton

A Thousand Words

2012
as Samantha Davis

The Addams Family 2

2021
as Margaux Needler

The People We Hate At The Wedding

2022
as Donna

Bad Education

2020
as Pam Gluckin

The Way Way Back

2013
as Betty Thompson

Troop Zero

2020
as Miss Massey

The Object of My Affection

1998
as Constance Miller

Six Days Seven Nights

1998
as Marjorie

Tallulah

2016
as Margo

Liberal Arts

2012
as Professor Judith Fairfield

Miracle on 34th Street

1994
as Woman in Christmas Shop

The Hours

2002
as Sally Lester

Tammy

2014
as Deb

Private Parts

1997
as Dee Dee

Away We Go

2009
as Lily

Winter Solstice

2004
as Molly Ripkin

A Book of Common Prayer

2015
as Grace Strasser-Mendana

Rooftop Kisses

2002
as Melissa

Everything's Going to Be Great

Life During Wartime

2009
as Trish

Margaret

2011
as Wounded Woman

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

2017
as Principal Nichols

Anita Liberty

1997
as Gynecologist

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013
as Narrator (voice)

Get on Up

2014
as Kathy

Brightest Star

2014
as The Astronomer

Strangers with Candy

2006
as Alice

Days and Nights

2014
as Elizabeth

The Chumscrubber

2005
as Allie Stiffle

Drop Dead Gorgeous

1999
as Loretta

How to Deal

2003
as Lydia Martin

Celebrity

1998
as Evelyn Isaacs

Primary Colors

1998
as Miss Walsh

Touchy Feely

2013
as Bronwyn

Julian Po

1997
as Lilah Leech

The Debtors

1999

The Associate

1996
as Sandy

Faithful

1996
as Saleslady

Binky Nelson Unpacified

2015
as Madge Nelson (voice)

Breaking News In Yuba County

2021
as Sue Buttons

The Impostors

1998

David and Lisa

1998
as Alix

A Girl Thing

2001
as Kathy McCormack

Dead Funny

1994
as Jennifer

Piccadilly Jim

2005
as Eugenia Crocker

Lazy Susan

2020
as Velvet

Another Simple Favor

2025

To Leslie

2022
as Nancy

Sun Dogs

2017
as Rose Chipley

Trust Me

2013
as Meg

Struck by Lightning

2012
as Sheryl Phillips

Bad Words

2013
as Dr. Bernice Deagan

Pretty Ugly People

2009
as Suzanna

The Night Is Young

2015
as Wanda

...First Do No Harm

1997
as Dr. Melanie Abbasac

Heading Home

1995
as Mary Polanski

Nurse Betty

2000
as Lyla Branch

The Oranges

2011
as Carol Ostroff

Who Shot Patakango?

1989
as Miss Penny

The Cowboy Way

1994
as NYPD Computer Operator

Big Night

1996
as Ann

The Rewrite

2014
as Mary Weldon

Walking and Talking

1996
as Gum Puller

Celia

2012
as Celia

Wolf

1994
as Party Guest

Our Very Own

2005
as Joan Whitfield

The Ice Storm

1997
as Dot Halford