Detailed Biography

January Kristen Jones is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress most famous for her role as Betty Draper on the television show Mad Men.

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 , 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 , 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 , 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 con artist who matches wits with Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter, in which she is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.

She also appeared in The Boat That Rocked, renamed Pirate Radio for North American release in 2009.

Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002. She appeared on the cover of "The Hot Issue" of British GQ magazine in May 2009.

On November 14, 2009, Jones hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live which featured the musical guest Black Eyed Peas.

In 2010 she is slated to star alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in the thriller film Unknown White Male, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.

Personal life

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.

Jones dated Ashton Kutcher from 1998–2001. She also dated singer Josh Groban from 2003–2006.

Political activities

She announced in Vanity Fair in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson, working to save endangered sharks.

Awards and nominations

In 2005 Jones won a Camie for Love's Enduring Promise , shared with Robert Halmi, Jr. , Larry Levinson , Lincoln Lageson , William Spencer Reilly , Michael Landon, Jr. , Cindy Kelley , Janette Oke , Logan Bartholomew , Mackenzie Astin , Dale Midkiff and Katherine Heigl .

In 2006 she won the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards for Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , shared with Tommy Lee Jones , Michael Fitzgerald , Luc Besson , Pierre-Ange Le Pogam , Guillermo Arriaga , Barry Pepper , Dwight Yoakam , Julio Cedillo , Levon Helm , Melissa Leo and Vanessa Bauche .

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 , 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.

In 2009 she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for Mad Men but lost to Anna Paquin for True Blood and she won the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men.