Allison Janney
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"Allison Brooks Janney" is an American actress. She is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award winner for her television work and has won a Drama Desk Award and received two Tony Award nominations for her work in the theater.

Janney studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre/Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre, from where she won a scholarship to study at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/RADA in the summer of 1984. She made her Broadway (theater)/Broadway debut in 1996, in a revival of the Noel Coward play Present Laughter. For her role in the 1997 Broadway revival of A View From the Bridge, she won a Drama Desk Award and received her first Tony Award nomination. She played White House Press Secretary (later Chief of Staff) C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing (1999–2006), a role for which she received six Emmy Award nominations, winning four. The role also won her a Satellite Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2009, she was nominated for a second Tony Award, for her role in the Broadway musical 9 to 5 (musical)/9 to 5.

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I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels like a very organic ending to the show with him gone because I just can't imagine doing it without him.

I have such fond memories of Annabelle ... just her whole personality, ... We loved to make her laugh; her laugh made us laugh.

I don't think any of us thought for a moment it was going to do what it did.

Sure there is, between Martin and John.

Any Which Way But Loose.

I also went on a tour of the White House, visited the tourist's spots, including all the monuments, then went to New York to have lunch with former press secretary, Dede Myers.

I'm not as smart as CJ. I love playing her because I can fool people into believing I'm incredibly bright and witty.