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Jane Alexander - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Jane Alexander nee Jane Quigley, b. October 28, 1939 - American actress who headed the US National Endowment for the Arts in the mid-1990s.
The future actress was born in Boston into a medical family. She had a love for acting back at school, but on the advice of her father, before seriously doing this she graduated from college with a degree in mathematics and computer science. Then for a year she studied at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where her participation in a local drama club finally convinced her to become an actress.
Jane Alexander's first success came in 1967 on the Washington stage. In the future, she continued a successful career both in the theater, becoming the owner of the Tony Award in 1970, as well as in the cinema, where for her roles in the films The Great White Hope (1970), All the President's Men (1976), Kramer v. Kramer (1979) and Testament (1983) have been nominated for an Academy Award four times. Jane Alexander won two Emmy Awards for her television roles in Stalling Time (1980) and Warm Springs (2005) .
In 1993, the actress was appointed by President Bill Clinton to chair the National Endowment for the Arts, which she headed until 1997. Jane Alexander is currently an active member of the Wildlife Conservation Fund, a member of the nuclear disarmament community, and is also a member of the International Leadership Forum. The actress was married twice, having given birth in 1964 from her second husband to a son, Jace, who became a television director.
