Jane Anderson (born c. 1954 in California, USA) began her career as an actress before becoming an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and director. She has written and directed one feature film, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005).
Prior to that, she wrote and directed several critically acclaimed television movies, notably Normal (2003); starring Jessica Lange; The Baby Dance (1998), starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993), starring Holly Hunter; and If These Walls Could Talk 2 (segment "1961") (2000), which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy Award for her heartbreaking portrayal of an elderly lesbian prevented from being in the hospital with her dying long-time companion.
