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Real name: |
Allison Brooks Janney |
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November 19, 1959 |
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64 years |
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United States
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Horoscope: |
Scorpio |
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Allison Janney Nominations & Awards
Golden Globes Awards
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress in a TV Series - Drama NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress in a TV Series - Drama NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV NOMINATED
Academy Awards
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
BAFTA
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG)
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture WINNER
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series WINNER
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture WINNER
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series NOMINATED
Independent Spirit
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actress NOMINATED
Mar del Plata Film Festival
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- Best Actress - Silver Astor WINNER
Critics Choice Award
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- Best Supporting Actress WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture WINNER
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress in a TV Series - Comedy or Musical NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
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- Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture NOMINATED
Emmy
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Comedy WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Comedy WINNER
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- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series WINNER
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Drama WINNER
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Drama WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Drama WINNER
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Drama WINNER
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series - Comedy NOMINATED
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- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Drama NOMINATED
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- Best Leading Actress TV - Drama NOMINATED
Chicago Film Critics Association
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- Best Supporting Actress NOMINATED
Boston Society of Film Critics
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- Best Supporting Actress NOMINATED
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- Best Ensemble Performance NOMINATED
National Board of Review
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- Best Ensemble Performance WINNER
San Francisco Critics Circle
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- Best Supporting Actress NOMINATED
Allison Brooks Janney, better known as Allison Janney, is an American Actress. She has won an Academy Awards, an Golden Globes Awards and an Mar del Plata International Film Festival. She's known for American Beauty (1999), The Help (2011) and The Hours (2002).
All Movies of Allison Janney
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TV series (2024-). 1 season. 10 episodes. In 1969, an ambitious woman aspires to cross the line between the haves and have-nots to secure her seat at America's most exclusive, fashionable, and treacherous table: Palm Beach high so
2024
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Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive arc...
Character:
Colonel Howell
2023
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Family tensions ramp up among siblings in the week leading up to their half-sister's wedding in the country.
2022
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Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life an
2022
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The film follows a young woman and her landlord, Lou, who team up to track down the former’s child after the girl is kidnapped by her estranged husband. Janney will play the landlord, a hard-shelled and rule-breaking woman that ...
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Lou
2022
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A woman catches her husband in bed with another woman, causing him to die of a heart attack. She buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. However, she soon finds...
2021
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In "Lazy Susan," Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family, who lazily skated through life with their grudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she's middle-aged with no job, no relations...
2020
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Stage version of "The West Wing's" season 3 episode "Hartsfield's Landing", written by Aaron Sorkin, with the original cast.
Premiere: October 15 on HBO Max.
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C.J. Cregg
2020
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In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts, forging...
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Miss Massey
2019
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The unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in history.
Character:
Pam Gluckin
2019
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Based on the real scandal, BOMBSHELL is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; Fox News, and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it: Roger A
Character:
Susan Estrich
2019
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A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.
Character:
Doctor Brooks
2019
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An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach. A buddy comedy about a legendary acting teacher whose own career as a thespian never quite worked out, and his recently-widowed agent. Sa...
2018
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During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.
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Principal Nichols
2017
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2017
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Competitive ice skater, Tonya Harding, rises among the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt, when her boyfriend intervenes.
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LaVona
2017
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Young vagabond Lu lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. This daily struggle has become tiresome for her privileged boyfriend, Nico, who unceremoniously leaves her one night. When a chance encou...
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Margo
2016
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A recent divorcée fantasizes about a couple whose house she passes each day on her commuter train ride. Soon, she becomes entangled in a mystery involving not only the couple, but her former husband and his new family.
2016
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When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake ...
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Dr. Golan
2016
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Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency’s most dangerous missions. But when her partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent (Jason Statham) i...
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Elaine Crocker
2015
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Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as 'The DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends. Now, despite the words of c...
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Dottie
2015
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Chadwick Boseman stars as James Brown. From a childhood spent in poverty to his emergence as the Godfather of Soul, Brown's incredible life story is one of talent, determination, and perseverance.
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Kathy
2014
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An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there. Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) is a washed-up British screenwriter who h...
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Professor Weldon
2014
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After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
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Deb
2014
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Mr. Peabody is a business titan, inventor, scientist, gourmand, two-time Olympic medalist and genius...who also happens to be a dog. Using his most ingenious invention, the WABAC machine, Mr. Peabody and his adopted boy Sherman hu...
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voz Sra. Grunion
2014
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A struggling agent for child actors and former child star himself, Howard Holloway spends years losing his most talented clients to his slick, arch-nemesis Aldo Shocklee. Until the day that Howard encounters the brilliant and unsi...
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Meg
2013
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A heartbroken boy navigates his way back to the girl of his dreams and on the way discovers surprising and unexpected truths.
2013
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A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing
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Bronwyn
2013
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The Way, Way Back tells the story of 14-year-old Duncan’s awkward, funny, and sometimes painful summer vacation with his mother, Pam, her overbearing boyfriend, Trent, and his daughter, Steph. Although Duncan has a tough time fi...
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Betty
2013
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"Masters of Sex," stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as the real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality, William Masters and Virginia Johnson. The series chronicles the lives of couple started the sexual revol...
Character:
Margaret Scully
9 episodes, 2013-2015
2013
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Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive in...
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Bonnie
170 episodes, 2013-2021
2013
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After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
2012
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Character:
Celia
2012
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Recently dumped, jaded college advisor thirty-something Jesse (Josh Radnor) returns to Kenyon, his alma mater, to give a speech for his retiring professor, Peter (Richard Jenkins). Re-awakened by academia, he pines to return to Ke...
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Professor Judith Fairfield
2012
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After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word we speak.
Character:
Samantha Davis
2012
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TV Series (2011). 9 Episodes. Ben Donovan (Perry) is the sports arena manager for the Sunshine Center, a second-tier arena in San Diego. He goes through a mid-life crisis when he turns 40, while dealing with the unusual demands of...
Character:
Crystal Cohen
13 episodes, 2011
2011
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MARGARET centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with o...
2011
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Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a small Mississippi town -- upside down when she deci...
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Charlotte
2011
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A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Longtime couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are going to have a baby. The pregnancy pro...
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Lily
2009
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There is Joy, who discovers her husband Allen is not quite cured of his peculiar “affliction” and runs away, seeking solace and guidance from her mother and sisters; her former suitor Andy, now deceased, but still never giving...
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Trish
2009
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Longtime friendships are put to the ultimate test when a dying woman summons her best friends from college into the wilderness for a four-day camping trip, and everyone quickly discovers that they haven't exactly been told the who...
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Suzanne
2008
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Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance party on TV. Tracy seems a natural fit for t...
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Prudy Pingleton
2007
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Juno Macguff (Ellen Page) is 16 and according to the adults that surround her, she is too smart for her own good. And yes, she is certainly witty, cultured, sharp in her responses, sarcastic. That sarcasm is her own trench where t...
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Bren
2007
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The Chumscrubber is a darkly satiric story about life crumbling in the midst of a seemingly idyllic suburbia.
Character:
Allie Stiffle
2005
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Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Character:
Eugenia Crocker
2004
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A comedic look at crime, love, tolerance and fried chicken.
Character:
Barbara Strasser
2003
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Life in the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny fish. When Marlin, an overly cautious clown fish, watches his son get scooped up by a diver, he must put aside his fears of the ocean and leave the safety of hi...
Character:
voz Peach
2003
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In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Rich...
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Sally Lester
2002
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A Girl Thing is a mini-series that revolves around a New York city street, a coffee house and a shrinks office. Dr. Beth Noonan is the therapist to one star per hour. Hour one deals with a woman not capable of having a relationshi...
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Kathy McCormack
2001
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After witnessing her husband's (Aaron Eckhart) death by a team of father-son hired assassins (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock), waitress Betty (Renée Zellweger) takes to the road following the dream of meeting her favorite soap ope...
Character:
Lyla
2000
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TV Series (1999-2006). 7 Seasons. When the erudite Democrat Josiah "Jed" Bartlet is elected U.S. president, he installs his administration. He places confidants from his electoral campaigns in the White House. Each of th...
Character:
C.J. Cregg
155 episodes, 1999-2006
1999
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Bianca Stratford is dying to go out with Joey Donner the babe of their school. Kat Stratford would rather die than go out with a boy. Mr. Stratford has this rule where Bianca can date... when Kat does. Bianca begs her sister to ha...
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Ms. Perky
1999
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The local boosters of Mount Rose, Minnesota proudly invites you to watch as their annual celebration of civic pride, wholesome achievement, teenage innocence and spirited camaraderie all go up in hilarious flames over the course o...
1999
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Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle aged man suffering from a mid-life crisis. He has an epiphany when he lays his eyes on one of his daughter Jane's friends. Woken from his suburban coma, he takes it upon himself to make a ...
Character:
Barbara Fitts
1999
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David and Lisa are emotionally disturbed teenagers who meet in a mental home under the care of Dr Jack Miller. The story that unfolds is both moving and heart-rending and demonstrates the tremendous healing power of love.
Character:
Alix
1998
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Tough as nails New York magazine editor (Heche) is surprised when her boyfriend (Schwimmer) pulls the romantic stunt of spontaneously buying tickets for a romantic South Pacific getaway. The trip seems to be shiny and happy until ...
Character:
Marjorie, Robin's Boss
1998
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At 40, Lee Simon feels that he’s not made the most of life. He writes travel features and interviews people from the world of showbiz, but dreams of selling a book or a screenplay to boost his social prestige. Since his divorce,...
1998
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Henry, the idealistic grandson of a civil rights leader, joins the campaign of presidential hopeful Jack Stanton, the progressive and libidenous governor of a southern state. Also on the team are Richard, a redneck campaign strate...
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Srta. Walsh
1998
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George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a taste for tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina...
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Constance Miller
1998
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The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and a movie star. The autobiographical story of Howard Stern, the radio rebel who is now also a TV personality, an author and
1997
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Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the help of Andrew, Frank, Laura, and a brie...