Jane Alexander - Biography

Last Editor: 37505				Jane Alexander Biography -   Name : Jane Alexander Profession : Actress Birth Details : born October 28, 1939 Birth name : Jane Quigley Personal quotes : "You have to have the ability to persevere, to get knocked down and get back up again. Just talent isn't enough." Spouse : Edwin Sherin (29 March 1975 - present) 1 child Robert Alexander (23 July 1962 - 1974) (divorced)

Jane Alexander Trivia -

Received an Honorary Degree from Smith College in Northampton, MA. [1999] Named to head the National Endowment of the Arts in August 1993. Received the Women's International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1988. Was the Commencement speaker for Smith College's Class of 1999. Was the commencement speaker for Duke University's Class of 1996. Won Broadway's 1969 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "The Great White Hope," a role she recreated in an Oscar-nominated performance in the film version of the same title, The Great White Hope (1970). Since, then she has received six additional Tony nominations: as Best Actress (Dramatic), in 1973 for "6 Rms Riv Vu," and in 1974 for "Find Your Way Hone;" and as Best Actress (Play): in 1979 for "First Monday in October," in 1992 for a revival of "The Visit," in 1993 for "The Sisters Rosensweig," and in 1998 for "Honour." Portrays FDR's mother in Warm Springs, had previously portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in the made for TV movies Franklin & Eleanor, and Franklin & Eleanor, the White House Years.

Jane Alexander Detailed Biography -

Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress. Born Jane Quigley in Boston, Massachusetts, her parents were Bart Quigley (who was of Irish and German descent) and Ruth Pearson, whose mother was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Alexander then studied at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Edinburgh before beginning to act on the stage in Washington, DC. In 1969 she debuted on Broadway in The Great White Hope and took it to Hollywood, where she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received other nominations for All the President's Men (1976) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). She has starred in the television productions of Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. Other television movies include Playing for Time, Calamity Jane, Malice in Wonderland, Blood & Orchids, In Love and War, and Daughter of the Streets. In 1983, she received another Oscar nomination for the post-nuclear war film Testament which co-starred William Devane. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. She served until 1997. In 2005 she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie/Miniseries, for her role as Sara Roosevelt in HBO's Warm Springs.