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Hollywood Reporter - Found Jul. 2, 2009 January Jones (AMC's 'Mad Men') and Evangeline Lilly (ABC's 'Lost') both had showcase stories and used them to their best advantage. |
PICKING EMMY CONTENDERS: Bianco makes the case for shows, stars that ...
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USA Today - Found Jun. 24, 2009 1 Ladies Detective Agency Anna Paquin, True Blood January Jones, Mad Men Bianco says: The women's field may be less crowded, but the top... |
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks Reveals Her Wedding Dress
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People - Found Jun. 19, 2009 But dont expect to see co-stars Jon Hamm and January Jones in the wedding album. |
January Jones at La Mer's World Oceans Day Celebration
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Beauty Blogging Junkie - Found Jun. 10, 2009 Check January Jones' (an Oceana spokesperson) gorge yellow dress, hair and makeup situ! I think she looks fantastic. |
In or Out: January Jones
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Project: Rungay - Project Runway from a VERY gay perspective. - Found May. 7, 2009 January Jones attends "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in modified |
January Jones Harpers Bazaar - June 2009 Uk
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The Bosh - Found Jun. 3, 2009 BY Fabien Montique TAGS Recent Articles Megan Fox British GQ Magazine Britney Spears Bikini New Moon Movie & New Moon Movie Trailer Bjork - Interview ... |
“Scared for Sharks”: Oceana Launches Public Service ...
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TransWorldNews - Found Jun. 2, 2009 ... new public service announcement (PSA) campaign today that features Golden Globe nominee January Jones swimming with sharks. Jones is best known... |
Who Wore Dolce & Gabbana Better? January Jones or Marisa Miller
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Red Carpet Fashion Awards - Found Apr. 8, 2009 ... be no excuse for not knowing x has already worn the same dress. At 60th Primetime Emmy Awards January Jones wore this white Dolce & Gabbana... |
January Jones' Style for $99.50
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Fashion Under $100 - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Yellow Dress $17.80 Nude Peep Toe Pumps $74.90 Gold Bracelet $6.80 |
Mad Men: Season 2 (2009)
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Empire Online - Found Jul. 1, 2009 Or it could just be the fact that the two leads - Jon Hamm and January Jones - look really, really good in '60s clobber. |
January Jones Biography
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January Jones (born January 5, 1978) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and former Abercrombie & Fitch model.
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Career
She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper. She is also well known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003), from the American Pie comedy film series.
She had the lead female role in the movie Love's Enduring Promise as a pioneer family's oldest child. Her character fell in love with a mysterious man who saved her father's life.
Jones has had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2005 she appeared as a U.S. border guard's frustrated wife in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. In We Are Marshall (2006), she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of football coach William "Red" Dawson.
She appeared in the Season 18 Law & Order episode "Quit Claim", playing a slippery, manipulative con artist who matches wits with Assistant District Attorney Cutter, in which she is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.1
She also appeared in The Boat That Rocked, released in 2009.
Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.2
Jones appeared on the cover of "The Hot Issue" of British GQ Magazine, Cover date May 2009, and the pictures can be seen at [1]
Personal life
Jones was born and raised in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough.3 She graduated from Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls.
Jones dated Ashton Kutcher from 1998–2001. She also dated singer Josh Groban from 2003–2006.4
She announced in Vanity Fair in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson, working on behalf of endangered sharks.5
Awards and nominations
In 2005 Jones won a Camie (Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards) for Love's Enduring Promise (2004) (TV), shared with Robert Halmi, Jr. (executive producer), Larry Levinson (executive producer), Lincoln Lageson (executive producer), William Spencer Reilly (executive producer), Michael Landon, Jr. (Film director/screenwriter), Cindy Kelley (screenwriter), Janette Oke (author of original book), Logan Bartholomew (actor), Mackenzie Astin (actor), Dale Midkiff (actor) and Katherine Heigl (actress).
In 2006 she won the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards for Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), shared with Tommy Lee Jones (director/producer/actor), Michael Fitzgerald (producer), Luc Besson (producer), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (producer), Guillermo Arriaga (writer), Barry Pepper (actor), Dwight Yoakam (actor), Julio Cedillo (actor), Levon Helm (actor), Melissa Leo (actress) and Vanessa Bauche (actress).
In 2008 she was nominated for the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards/14th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men (2007), shared with Bryan Batt, Anne Dudek, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, Elisabeth Moss, Maggie Siff, John Slattery, Rich Sommer and Aaron Staton.
Filmography
- Sorority (1999) (TV) .... Number One
- Get Real (1 episode, "Pilot", 1999) .... Jane Cohen
- It's the Rage (1999) .... Janice Taylor
- The Glass House (2001) .... Girl
- Bandits (2001) .... Claire/Pink Boots
- In My Life (2002) (TV) .... Diane St. Croix
- Taboo (2002) .... Elizabeth
- Full Frontal (2002) .... Tracy
- Anger Management (2003) .... Gina
- American Wedding (2003) .... Cadence Flaherty
- Love Actually (2003) .... Jeannie
- Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) .... Eve
- Love's Enduring Promise (2004) (TV) .... Missie Davis
- Huff (2 episodes, "The Good Doctor" and "The Sample Closet," 2005) .... Marissa Wells
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) .... Lou Ann Norton
- Swedish Auto (2006) .... Darla
- We Are Marshall (2006) .... Carole Dawson
- Mad Men (2007-2008) .... Betty Draper
- Law & Order (1 episode, "Quit Claim", 2008) .... Kim Brody
- The Boat That Rocked (2009) .... Eleonore
References
- ^ "Quit Claim" at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "FreeJose.com". Maxim Magazine Hot 100 Women of 2002. http://www.freejose.com/lists/maxim/2002/. Retrieved on March 19 2007.
- ^ January Jones; The Anger Management Actress Wants to Be More Than a Flavor of the Month, People, April 21, 2003. Retrieved on August 18, 2008.
- ^ Josh Groban, January Jones Take a Breather
- ^ "Miss January," Vanity Fair, http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/02/january-jones200902
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