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Nicknamed “Miss Thang,” the January-born and South Dakota-raised January Jones got her start as an Abercrombie & Fitch model before hitting the acting world. A role as a bank robber in the Bruce Willis-led Bandits earned her a shot as an angry lesbian porn star in 2003's Anger Management, after which she played Stifler's (Seann William Scott's) romantic interest in American Wedding.

January Jones now splits her time between television and movies thanks to roles in Tommy Lee Jones' award-winning The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, the football movie We Are Marshall and the critically lauded TV drama Mad Men. Earlier this month she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe for her role in Mad Men.


January Jones has been on our radar since the Maxim Hot 100 of 2002 list. Her model features make her a winner with guys, including Ashton Kutcher, who dated her from 1998 to 2001. As model-turned-housewife Betty Draper on Mad Men, we've watched her grow stronger through the show's second season, with the third due in 2009.

January Jones also put her looks to manipulative use in 2008 as a sleek con artist for a guest spot on Law & Order. We'll see her incite more desire as a pretty young thing seducing British DJs in the 2009 movie The Boat That Rocked.