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I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

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Allison Janney
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
Actor
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Boston
Massachusetts
Allison Brooks Janney
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