She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper, but may be best known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003), from the American Pie comedy film series.
She also had the lead female role in the movie Love's Enduring Promise. Jones plays the role of a pioneer family's oldest child. She falls in love with a young mysterious man who saved her father's life.
Jones has also had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2005 she appeared in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. In 2006 in We Are Marshall she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of coach William 'Red' Dawson.
She will star in The Boat That Rocked, to be released in 2009.
Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.[1]
Awards and nominations
In 2005 she won the Camie at the Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards for Love's Enduring Promise (2004) (TV), shared with Robert Halmi, Jr. (executive producer), Larry Levinson (executive producer), Lincoln Lageson (executive producer), William Spencer Reilly (executive producer), Michael Landon, Jr. (Film director/screenwriter), Cindy Kelley (screenwriter), Janette Oke (author of [[original book]), Logan Bartholomew (actor), Mackenzie Astin (actor), Dale Midkiff (actor) and Katherine Heigl (actress).
In 2006 she won the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards for Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), shared with Tommy Lee Jones (Film producer/actor), Michael Fitzgerald (Film producer), Luc Besson (Film producer), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (Film producer), Guillermo Arriaga (Film writer), Barry Pepper (actor), Dwight Yoakam (actor), Julio Cedillo (actor), Levon Helm (actor), Melissa Leo (actress) and Vanessa Bauche (actress).
In 2008 she was nominated for the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men (2007), 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.
Personal life
Jones grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough.[2] She graduated from Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls.
Jones dated Ashton Kutcher from 1998-2001. She also dated singer Josh Groban from 2003 to 2006.[3]
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