Jane Alexander
Sign in to saveAmerican actress (born 1939)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939-10-28
- Works
- 71
Top works
- Detox
- Sofshavuʻa raguʻa
- Mindfulness Book
- Zoe and the Wishing Star
- Kramer vs. Kramer
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander has played a wide array of roles in both theater and film, and has committed herself to a variety of charitable…
Known for
- Everything's on Fire — Lorraine2026
- American Classic — Ethel Bean2026
- Severance — Celestine 'Sissy' Cobel2022
- The Man in the Woods — Vivien Waldorf2020
- Tales from the Loop — Klara2020
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self2019
- Modern Love — Margot2019
- Christmas Around the Corner — Mrs. Tumulty2018
- Three Christs — Dr. Abraham2017
- The Good Fight — Judge Suzanne Morris2017
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 95
- Total plays
- 249
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,587x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,133x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,059x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,303x
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Key facts
- Born
- Jane Quigley , ( 1939-10-28 ) October 28, 1939 (age 86) , Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- Sarah Lawrence College ( BA )
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1963–present
- Spouses
- Robert Alexander ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1962 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1974 ) Edwin Sherin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ; died 2017 )
- Children
- Jace Alexander
- Relatives
- Maddie Corman (daughter-in-law)
- Preceded by
- John Frohnmayer
- Succeeded by
- Kathryn Higgins
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 28 October 1939
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jane
- Family name
- Q1511218
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Spouse
- Edwin Sherin
- Child
- Jace Alexander
- Occupation
- actor
- Position held
- chairperson
Article
Jane Alexander (née Quigley; born October 28, 1939) is an American-Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Academy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. From 1993 to 1997, Alexander served as the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Alexander won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway production of The Great White Hope. Other Broadway credits include 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998). She has received a total of eight Tony Award nominations and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.
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1939 births20th-century American actresses21st-century American actressesActresses from BostonAmerican film actressesAmerican stage actressesAmerican television actressesBeaver Country Day School alumniDrama Desk Award winnersFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesInternet Broadway Database person ID same as WikidataInternet Off-Broadway Database person ID same as Wikidata