Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Categories: 1939 births | Stage actors | People from Massachusetts | Cinema actors | Best Actress Oscar Nominee | Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominee
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress. Born Jane Quigley in Boston, Massachusetts, she 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 and Kramer vs. Kramer. She also starred in the television productions of Eleanor and Franklin and . 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.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her as the head of the National Endowment for the Arts.
The contents of this article is licensed from www.wikipedia.org under the GNU Free Documentation License. Click here to see the transparent copy and copyright details