Mad Men
January Jones as Betty Draper
January Jones stars in AMC’s critically acclaimed Emmy®, Golden Globe® and SAG® Award- winning series, Mad Men. Set in the 1960s, Jones portrays Betty Draper, a wife and young mother of high-powered, philandering advertising executive, Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm. Her performance in this role earned her a 2009 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama.
Jones can next be seen in The Boat That Rocked, written and directed by Richard Curtis. The film is a period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960s. Jones stars opposite Academy Award®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Academy Award-nominated Kenneth Branagh. The film was released in the UK on April 3, 2009 and will be released domestically on August 28, 2009.
In 2006, Jones starred in the critically acclaimed festival hit Swedish Auto. Jones portrays a woman torn between caring for her mother and leaving an abusive home. Also in 2006, she portrayed the real life character 'Carol Dawson' in Warner Brothers’ We Are Marshall. The McG-directed film stars Matthew Fox and Matthew McConaughey as the coaches of the Marshall College football team who died in a plane crash.
Jones is revered for her critically lauded performance in Sony Classics' Three Burials of Meliquiades Estrada for director and actor Tommy Lee Jones. She portrays a young woman married to a border cop who accidentally murders an illegal immigrant. The film debuted to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
Jones previously starred in Universal's American Wedding; Sony’s Anger Management alongside Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson; Universal’s Love Actually with Colin Firth and Keira Knightly; MGM’s Bandits with Billy Bob Thorton, Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett for Director/Producer Barry Levinson; and Miramax’s Full Frontal directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Jones currently resides in Los Angeles.
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