January Jones
Name: January Jones
Born January 5, 1978 (1978-01-05) (age 32)
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Occupation: Golden Globe-nominated American actress and former Abercrombie & Fitch model.
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 (2003), 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 (2003), 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 (2006), 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 slippery, manipulative con artist who matches wits with Assistant District Attorney 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, released in 2009.
Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.
Jones appeared on the cover of “The Hot Issue” of British GQ Magazine, Cover date May 2009, and the pictures can be seen at
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
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 (2007-2008) …. Betty Draper
Law & Order (1 episode, “Quit Claim”, 2008) …. Kim Brody
The Boat That Rocked (2009) …. Eleonore
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