FILM INTERLUDE Allison Janney

Here is actress Allison Janney whose is one of stars of the sitcom Mom.  She was brillant as the head of the CIA Melissa McCarthy's Spy and Madge Nelson of Minions.

Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress. A six-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for her television work, her first four Emmy wins were for her role as C.J. Cregg on the NBC drama The West Wing (1999–2006). In 2014, she won the Emmy for Outstanding Support Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Bonnie Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom, and the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Margaret Scully on the Showtime series Masters of Sex.

Janney, who won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the summer of 1984, made her Broadway debut in the 1996 revival of the Noel Coward play Present Laughter. She won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the 1997 Broadway revival of A View From the Bridge, and received a second Tony nomination for the 2009 original Broadway production of the musical 9 to 5. Her film roles include Primary Colors (1998), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), American Beauty (1999), The Hours (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), Hairspray (2007), Juno (2007), The Help (2011), The Way Way Back (2013), Get On Up (2014), and Spy (2015).

Janney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Dayton, Ohio. She is the daughter of Macy Brooks (née Putnam), a former actress and homemaker, and Jervis Spencer Janney, Jr., a real estate developer and jazz musician.She is one of three siblings.

Janney attended The Miami Valley School in Dayton, where she was named a distinguished alumna in 2004, and the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.  She then attended Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio. At Kenyon, she studied with Paul Newman, an alumnus of Kenyon. He directed her in a play as the inaugural event of the school's newly dedicated Bolton Theater. Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward encouraged Janney to continue acting. She then went on to train at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and did summer programs at the Royla Academy of Dramatica Art in London. She attended The Neighborhood Playhouse the same years as actor Dylan McDermott.