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Allison Brooks Janney (born 19 November 1960) is an American actress, best known as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.Janney was born in Dayton, Ohio and harbored dreams of becoming a Olympic figure skater before suffering a serious childhood injury. Janney attended Kenyon College, where she was first noticed by director Paul Newman. She went on to study drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
Janney has appeared in a number of films with roles of various sizes, including the 1990s films American Beauty, Drop Dead GorgeousDrop Dead Gorgeous was a film originally released in 1999. It starred Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst as rivals in a beauty pageant called the Mount Rose American Teen Princess Pageant in the small town of Mount Rose, Minnesota. The film is a fictitious, Primary ColorsPrimary Colors is a 1996 novel by Anonymous (later revealed by Donald Foster to be journalist Joe Klein), a Roman a clef about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. The book centers around Henry Burton, who's roped into being something of a, and Private PartsPrivate Parts is an amusing autobiographical story of Howard Stern's rise to shock jock king. It was published in book form in 1995, and a movie based on the book was released in 1997. It is #87 on the ALA's Most Challenged Books. Stern wrote a second mem, and the 2000sThis article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2000, see the links below. Millennia: 2nd millennium 3rd millennium 4th millennium Centuries: 20th century 21st cen films Nurse BettyNurse Betty is a 2000 comedy film that stars Renee Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear. Betty, a sweet and innocent Kansas waitress who's crazy about a soap opera goes really crazy when she sees her husband murdered by hit men. Synopsis, The HoursThe Hours can refer to: Michael Cunningham's Novel Stephen Daldry's Movie Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway working title Hours is also the name of a commune in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement in France., and the animated Finding NemoFinding Nemo is a computer-animated movie produced by Pixar for The Walt Disney Company and released on May 30 2003. Finding Nemo set a record as the highest grossing opening weekend for an animated feature, making $70 million (surpassed in 2004 by Shrek.
In 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep she was cast in the role of presidential press secretary C.J. Cregg on the television drama The West Wing, for which she has won four Emmy Awards. Janney has remained active in theatre; in 1998, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her role in Arthur Miller’s "A View from the Bridge."
On May 17, 2004, Janney's boyfriend of two years, Richard Jenik , proposed to her in San Francisco.
In 2004, Janney began lending her voice to television and radio spots created by Kaiser Permanente in the health maintenance organization's broad "Thrive" media campaign.
