TheWrap magazine: "Even though I'm on a comedy, Quinta [Brunson] has made it so I am showing all the things that I can do," ...

Tough and sassy Ava Coleman was put through the wringer in Season 4 of Abbott Elementary, but Janelle James can look back at her onscreen persona and confidently say, "They kind of threw everything at ...

[This story contains spoilers from episodes 18 and 19 of season four of Abbott Elementary.] If you’re caught up on the latest episodes of Abbott Elementary, you know principal Ava Coleman is out ...

Janelle James, who plays the self-involved yet surprisingly dedicated principal Ava Coleman in Quinta Brunson's Abbott Elementary, knows that the show faces a distinct challenge as a network ...

Janelle James is not Ava Coleman. As the "Abbott Elementary" star and Screen Actors Guild nominee prepares to resume doing stand-up on a limited basis, she's hoping that more people will realize that.

Ava Coleman is so much more than just the Abbott Elementary principal. She has said some of the show’s most iconic one-liners and has captivated fans’ hearts with her humor, capriciousness ...

James has been nominated every year she's played Principal Ava Coleman — without a win. We dig into her Emmy statistics to ...

Abbott Elementary' star Janelle James recently shared her favorite Ava Coleman joke, noting that fans probably missed it during their first watch. Fans of Abbott Elementary know Ava Coleman as the ...

As soon as Janelle James read for the role of the cheerfully self-absorbed chaos queen that is Principal Ava Coleman on “Abbott Elementary,” she had her down. “I know this chick,” James ...