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January Jones
January Jones at the 2008 Emmy Awards
Born	January 5, 1978 (1978-01-05) (age 30) Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota

January Jones (born January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota) is an American actress and former Abercrombie & Fitch model.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Awards and nominations 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Career

She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper, but may be best known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003), from the American Pie comedy film series.

She also had the lead female role in the movie Love's Enduring Promise. Jones plays the role of a pioneer family's oldest child. She falls in love with a young mysterious man who saved her father's life.

Jones has also had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2005 she appeared in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. In 2006 in We Are Marshall she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of coach William 'Red' Dawson.

She also appeared in the Season 18 Law and Order episode "Quit Claim", in which Jones plays a slippery, manipulative con artist that Assistant District Attorney Cutter matches wits with who is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.¹

She will star in The Boat That Rocked, to be released in 2009.

Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.²

Personal life

Jones grew up in Sioux Falls, 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 to 2006.⁴

Awards and nominations

In 2005 she won the Camie at the 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 (Film producer/actor), Michael Fitzgerald (Film producer), Luc Besson (Film producer), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (Film producer), Guillermo Arriaga (Film 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, American Angel
• My Buddy Jack (2003) (V) Special Thanks
• 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 (26 episodes, 2007-2008) .... Betty Draper
• Law & Order (1 episode, "Quit Claim", 2008) .... Kim Brody
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) .... Eleonore (post-production)

References

External links

• January Jones at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.january-jones.net/