![]() ![]() The role of Betty Draper has garnered her two Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nomination as Best Actress. Roles that are not me", January has said. Until she landed the part on Mad Men (2007), which made its debut on AMC in 2007, her career was steady but undistinguished. She gained some career traction with a good role in another comedy, American Wedding (2003), a sequel to American Pie (1999). 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). At the time the movie was released, she was ending a three-year relationship with Ashton Kutcher. 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). She followed it up with a small role in the teen thriller The Glass House (2001). January appeared in a couple of television pilots and a cable television series before making her big screen debut inĪll the Rage (1999), an indie that never got a real release. 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 However, modeling was just a means to an end, to get out of South Dakota and avoid going to college. Despite her stature (5'6", which is short for a fashion model), she got modeling gigs, including Abercrombie & Fitch ads. After graduating from Roosevelt High School, she moved to New York City to become a model. 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. She has two sisters, Jacey Jones and Jina Jones]. She was named after the character January Wayne in Jacqueline Susann's potboiler novel turned film, Once Is Not Enough (1975). She is of Czech, Danish, English, Welsh, and German ancestry. She is the daughter of Karen Sue (née Cox), a sporting goods store manager, and Marvin Roger Jones, a gym teacher and fitness director. January Jones was born on Januin Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ![]()
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