January Jones is back on the big screen this week with her new movie Unknown, which sees her team up with Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
And 2011 looks set to be a huge movie year for the actress with The Hungary Rabbit Jumps, which also stars Nicholas Cage, before stepping into the big budget blockbuster with X-Men: First Class.
Jones kicked off her career in modelling, working for the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch before moving to LA to pursue acting.
She made her big screen debut in All The Rage, a small independent film that all starred Jeff Daniels, before moving into TV with Get Real.
throughout the noughites she slowly built up her career with small roles in Bandits, The Glass House and Love Actually.
2003 brought her a role in American Pie: The Wedding as the love interest of Seann William Scott. The movie may not have done well with the critics but it went on to gross in excess of $231 million at the global box office.
The mainstream movie game Jones the exposure that she needed and she went on to star in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and TV series Huff.
She continued to mix and match her roles as he has a small part as Lou Ann Norton in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was directed and starred Tommy Lee Jones.
But the role that has really been the breakthrough for her came on TV when she was cast as Betty Francis in Mad Men in 2007 - going on to star in fifty two episodes of the hit series.
A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
But she is back on the big screen this week in action movie Unknown in the role of Elizabeth Harris as she tries to really launch her movie career.
Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity.
Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired and on the run.
Aided by an unlikely ally, Martin plunges headlong into a deadly mystery that will force him to question his sanity, his identity, and just how far he's willing to go to uncover the truth.
But she is set for her biggest role yet this summer when she stars in X-Men:First Class as Emma Frost.
Matthew Vaughn is in the director's chair for the latest X-Men instalment, which goes back to the early days of Erik and Charles as they try to understand and come to terms with their powers.
Unknown is released 4th March.
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