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January Jones
January Kristen Jones (5' 6" (1.68 m) born January 5, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Betty Draper on Mad Men.
Jones was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the daughter of Karen and Marvin Jones, a coach and gym teacher. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough. She has two sisters – Jacey and Jina.
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 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. She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper. She is also known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in the 2003 comedy American Wedding, the third installment of the American Pie film series.
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, a British film about offshore pirate radio in the 1960s, renamed Pirate Radio for North American release in 2009.
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. In 2010, she was ranked No. 17 on the TC Chandler's "Most Beautiful Faces" list.
On November 14, 2009, Jones hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live which featured the musical guest The Black Eyed Peas, giving a performance that was met with negative reviews.
In 2011, she starred alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger in the thriller film Unknown, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. and portrayed Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class.
In 2005, Jones won a Camie (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 (director/producer/actor), Michael Fitzgerald (producer), Luc Besson (producer), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (producer), Guillermo Arriaga (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 at the 14th 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.
In 2008 and 2009, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for Mad Men, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men.
In 2010, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama for Mad Men.
Jones dated actor Ashton Kutcher when she first moved to Los Angeles. She then dated singer Josh Groban for three years. She dated the SNL star Jason Sudeikis from July 2010 until January 2011.
She announced in Vanity Fair in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson, working to save endangered sharks.
It was announced on April 28, 2011, that she is expecting her first child in the fall.
In 2010, Jones inspired an eponymous song by rapper Hoodie Allen.

J.R. Martinez racked up the first perfect scores on Season 13 of "Dancing With the Stars" on Monday with his waltz and an "instant jive," and the Ministry of Gossip has one thing to say: "Not bad for a guy with a butt graft."

That's actually how Martinez put it when we spoke to him early in the season, when he was hoping the audience would be able to look past his Army-veteran story and start to think of him as "a really good dancer."

That time, clearly, has come for 28-year-old Jose Rene Martinez.

Martinez's athleticism has been apparent since he jumped into the jive in Week 3. "I just jumped, I had so much energy, I got lost in the energy," he said. Until friends told him to look at the picture ABC was sending around, "I didn't realize I got that high and stretched!"

His war injuries didn't trip him up until the foxtrot, prior to which he'd had no issues with dancing. That week, however, "I found out there is one thing. My right arm, I can't supinate completely with it." He explained that for the vocabulary-impaired: "I broke my arm [in action] and I have a plate there, so I can't turn my palm up all the way ... and when I'm holding Karina [Smirnoff] my thumb has a tendency to be in a bad place, and it hurts her." So they were figuring out a less painful work-around.

That was the only time, however, when @knowjr said he couldn't carry out the full motion as instructed. "Karina told me, 'You could re-break it' -- I said, 'I don't think that's in my contract!'" Supination aside, they scored 26 out of 30 that week.

Despite rehearsing with partner Smirnoff at a different venue than most of the gang, Martinez is in the final five with two contestants he's gotten along with along the way: Hope Solo and Rob Kardashian. He said he has the same sense of humor that Kardashian has, but with Solo, it got personal.

At a promotional event for the Just Dance video game, Solo "actually beat me," he said. "Not once, she beat me twice." Perhaps his pair of 30s Monday night were payback?

But back to that story, which even "a really good dancer" is unlikely to shed: In April 2003 in Iraq, Martinez was burned over 40% of his body when his jeep hit a land mine, requiring 33 surgeries over 34 months.

In addition to taking a few days' work on "All My Children" and turning it into a 169-episode gig, he's done a lot of motivational speaking with burn victims and others, plus the troops, aiming to "be a light, in this difficult process of coming home." As noted on "DWTS," he's also crossed paths with Gary Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band, who have toured with the USO -- an organization Martinez has hooked up with domestically as a speaker.

And now he has the dancing.

"Tell them I want to go on a damned USO tour! Over there, now," said an enthusiastic Martinez. "USO, what's up?! Take me!"

Not bad for a guy with a butt graft. Check out Martinez's Monday night waltz, below.