January Jones

**January Kristen Jones** (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Betty Draper on the TV series _Mad Men_.

## Early 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 has two sisters – Jacey and Jina.

## Career

Jones has had roles in the movies _Anger Management_ (2003), _Love Actually,_ and _Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights_. In 2005, she was in _The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada_. It was directed by and starred Tommy Lee Jones. In _We Are Marshall_ (2006), she played the wife of football coach William "Red" Dawson.

She had the lead female role in the movie _Love's Enduring Promise_. Her character falls in love with a man who saves her father's life. She also starred in the AMC series _Mad Men_ as young housewife and mother Betty Draper Francis. She is also known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in the 2003 comedy _American Wedding_, the third movie of the _American Pie_ series.

Jones was ranked No.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_. She got bad reviews for this performance.

In 2011, she starred alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in _Unknown_, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra,. She also played Emma Frost in _X-Men: First Class_.

## Personal life

She said in _Vanity Fair_ in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson. She was working to save endangered sharks. Jones dated singer-songwriter Josh Groban from 2003–06.

Jones gave birth to a son, Xander Dane Jones, on September 13, 2011.

## Filmography

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1999|||||||
|Janice Taylor||||||||
|align="center"|2001|||||||
|Girl||||||||
|align="center"|2001|||||||
|Claire/Pink Boots||||||||
|align="center"|2002|||||||
|Elizabeth||||||||
|align="center"|2002|||||||
|Tracy||||||||
|align="center"|2003|||||||
|Gina||||||||
|align="center"|2003|||||||
|Cadence Flaherty||||||||
|align="center"|2003|||||||
|Jeannie||||||||
|align="center"|2004|||||||
|Eve||||||||
|align="center"|2005|||||||
|Lou Ann Norton||||||||
|align="center"|2006|||||||
|Darla||||||||
|align="center"|2006|||||||
|Carole Dawson||||||||
|align="center"|2009|||||||
|Elenore|Retitled _Pirate Radio_ in North America|||||||
|align="center"|2011|||||||
|Elizabeth Harris||||||||
|align="center"|2011|||||||
|Emma Frost||||||||
|align="center"|2011|||||||
|Laura Gerard||||||||
|align="center"|2012|||||||
|Cadence Flaherty|Uncredited Cameo.|||||||
|align="center"|2014|||||||
|Emma Frost||||||||

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center"|1999|||||||
|Number One|TV movie|||||||
|align="center"|1999|||||||
|Jane Cohen|Episode: "Pilot"|||||||
|align="center"|2002|||||||
|Diane St. Croix|TV movie|||||||
|align="center"|2004|||||||
|Missie Davis|TV movie|||||||
|align="center"|2005|||||||
|Marisa Wells||||||||
|align="center"|2007–2015|||||||
|Betty Draper Francis||||||||
|align="center"|2008|||||||
|Kim Brody|Episode: "Quit Claim"|||||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: January Jones
- **image**: Mad Men at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards - January Jones.jpg
- **caption**: Jones in 2008 at the Peabody Awards
- **birth name**: January Kristen Jones
- **birth place**: Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S.
- **occupation**: Actress
- **yearsactive**: 1999–present
- **children**: Xander Dane Jones (b. 2011)
- **domesticpartner**: Jason Sudeikis (2010-2011)