Jane Alexander
JANE ALEXANDER's distinguished acting career includes her Tony Award-winning performance in The Great White Hope directed by Ed Sherin (who later became her husband) and Tony-nominated roles in Honour, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Visit, First Monday in October, Find Your Way Home, and 6 Rms Riv Vu, all on Broadway. In addition, she won an Obie Award and Drama Desk Award for The Great White Hope. She also appeared in Shadowlands opposite Nigel Hawthorne both on Broadway and in London's West End. Her regional theatre work includes performances at Arena Stage and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. as well as at the Mark Taper Forum, Alliance Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, and American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Connecticut---over 100 stage roles in all throughout her career. A four-time Oscar nominee for the films Testament, Kramer vs. Kramer, All The President's Men, and The Great White Hope, she has appeared in over 50 screen roles among them Brubaker, City Heat, The Cider House Rules, Sunshine State, The Ring, Feast of Love with Morgan Freeman and the forthcoming The Unborn and Terminator Salvation. On television, she won Emmy Awards for the movies Playing for Time and Warm Spring and a Television Critic's Circle Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor And Franklin: The White House Years. She has been nominated for Emmys 8 times and recently starred on HBO's series Tell Me You Love Me. Ms. Alexander is the author of the book, Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics, documenting her tenure as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993-1997. She continues her government service as a Commissioner of Parks, the Taconic Region, for New York State. Bio as of June, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) At Work and Play: Lead Actors 2009 - April, 2009 - Watch now. Performance - September, 1991 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) Jane Alexander - April, 2005 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)