Janelle James
Biography
Janelle James is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her role as Ava Coleman in the ABC television series Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an NAACP Image Award, in addition to nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Jennifer Hudson Show
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Golden Globe Awards
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
All Movies (5)
- The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holiday 20252025
- One of Them Days2025 · as Ruby
- The Garfield Movie2024 · as Olivia (voice)
- Tom of Your Life2020
- Sixteen Thousand Dollars2020 · as Catherine
All TV Shows (27)
- Strip Law2026 · as Sheila Flambé (voice)
- Super Duper Bunny League2025 · as Narrator (voice)
- Hollywood Squares2025 · as Self
- Kite Man: Hell Yeah!2024 · as Queen of Fables (voice)
- The Jennifer Hudson Show2022
- Sherri2022 · as Self - Guest
- The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self
- The Final Straw2022 · as Self - Host
- Abbott Elementary2021 · as Ava Coleman
- Teenage Euthanasia2021
- Monsters at Work2021 · as Joy (voice)
- Celebrity Wheel of Fortune2021 · as Self - Contestant
- Star Trek: Lower Decks2020 · as Katrot (voice)
- Central Park2020 · as Fran (voice)
- Black Monday2019 · as Joyce
- The Comedy Lineup2018 · as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
- @midnight with Chris Hardwick2013 · as Self
- Gotham Comedy Live2012 · as Self - Comic
- RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars2012 · as Self - Guest Judge
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia2005 · as Ava Coleman
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
- The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA1995 · as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
- The Emmy Awards1949 · as Self
- Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee