January jones actress mad men
January Jones
American actress (born 1978)
This article is about the actress. For other uses, see January Jones (disambiguation).
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| Born | January Kristen Jones (1978-01-05) January 5, 1978 (age 47) Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1999–present |
| Children | 1 |
January Kristen Jones (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Betty Draper in Mad Men (2007–2015), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also portrayed Melissa Chartres in The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) and has starred in films such as American Wedding (2003), We Are Marshall (2006), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Unknown (2011), Seeking Justice (2011), and X-Men: First Class (2011).
Early life
January Kristen Jones was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on January 5, 1978, the daughter of store manager Karen Cox and exercise physiologist Marvin Jones. She was named after January Wayne, a character in the 1973 Jacqueline Susann novel Once Is Not Enough. The names of her two sisters also start with the letter J, Jina and Jacey. In 1979, her family moved to Hecla, South Dakota, but moved back to Sioux Falls in 1996, where she graduated from Roosevelt High School.
Career
Modeling
Jones began her modeling career in New York at the age of 18, after a modeling scout expressed interest while she was in high school. She noted that modelling was not her passion and she never took it seriously. Her first agency claimed she owed them money when she decided to move to Los Angeles. Jones has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch,Versace,Clearasil and Kérasta January Jones was born on January 5, 1978 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is the daughter of Karen Sue (née Cox), a sporting goods store manager, and Marvin Roger Jones, a gym teacher and fitness director. She is of Czech, Danish, English, Welsh, and German ancestry. She was named after the character January Wayne in Jacqueline Susann's potboiler novel turned film, Once Is Not Enough (1975). She has two sisters, Jacey Jones and Jina Jones]. Fictional character on American TV series "Mad Men" Fictional character January Jones as Betty Draper Don Draper Henry Francis Elizabeth "Betty" Draper Francis (formerly Draper, née Hofstadt) is a fictional character played by January Jones on AMC's television seriesMad Men. She begins the show married to protagonist Don Draper (Jon Hamm); following a separation in the third season, the two remain divorced for the remainder of the series, but continue to share custody of their three children. Blonde, beautiful, emotionally distant and immature, Betty spends the bulk of Mad Men slowly growing as a person amid the social and political turmoil of the 1960s. The character's appearance is often compared to that of Grace Kelly, with the similarities between the two also drawn during the first season of the series. Jones received two Golden Globe nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination fo Date of Birth January 5, 1978 Birthplace Sioux Falls, South Dakota January Jones (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress best known for her starring role in Mad Men as Betty Hofstadt. Jones was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough. She graduated from Edison Middle School and Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls. January Jones starred in the AMC drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother, Betty Hofstadt. She is also known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003). Jones played a lead role as a pioneer family's oldest child in the movie 'Love's Enduring Promise.' Jones has played supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually (where she played one of the randy Wiscosin bar girls), 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. Jones has also appeared in the Season 18 Law & Order episode "Quit Claim", playing a con artist who matches wits with Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter, and The Boat That Rocked, a British film about offshore pirate radio in the 1960s, renamed Pirate Radio for North American release in 2009. She was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002, and she appeared on the cover of "The Hot Issue" of British GQ magazine in May 2009. In 2011, Jones starred alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in the thriller film "Unknown", directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
Her family moved to the small town of Hecla, South Dakota, with a population of just some 400 souls in 1979, when she was one year old; they moved back to Sioux Falls in 1986. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, she moved to New York City to become a model. Despite her stature (5'6", which is short for a fashion model), she got modeling gigs, including Abercrombie & Fitch ads. However, modeling was just a means to an end, to get out of South Dakota and avoid going to college.
She got her first taste of acting from TV commercials and found that she had flair for it, even though she did not act in high school and had no training. January appeared in a couple of television pilots and a cable television series before making her big screen debut in All the Rage (1999), an indie that never got a real release. She followed it up with a small role in the teen thriller The Glass House (2001). Her actual debut in the sense of attracting attention was in the near silent role of the beauty who entices Jane Fonda's son, Troy Garity, in the Bruce Willis-Cate Blanchett-Billy Bob Thornton comedy Bandits (2001). It was not a career-making part. At the time the movie was released, she was ending a three-year relationship with Ashton Kutcher.
Small roles followed, including a "don't blink or you won't see me" part in the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson comedy Anger Management (2003). She gained some career traction with a good role in another comedy, American Wedding (2003), a sequel to American Betty Draper
Betty Draper First appearance "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2007) Last appearance "Person to Person" (2015) Created by Matthew Weiner Portrayed by January Jones Full name Elizabeth Hofstadt Francis Alias Elizabeth Hofstadt (maiden name)
Elizabeth Draper (first married name)
Elizabeth Francis (Second married name)Nickname Betty
Betts
BirdieGender Female Occupation Housewife
Ex-modelFamily Gene Hofstadt (deceased father)
Ruth Hofstadt (deceased mother)
William Hofstadt (brother)
Gloria Hofstadt (step-mother)Spouse Children Sally Draper (daughter with Don Draper)
Robert Draper (son with Don Draper)
Eugene Draper (son with Don Draper)
Eleanor Francis (step-daughter from Henry Francis)Relatives Judy Hofstadt (sister-in-law)
Herman (deceased grandfather)
Emma (deceased aunt)Nationality American Biography[]
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