Jane Alexander
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 causes.
The Ring
as Dr. GrasnikRachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers....
Movie pageAll grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against...
Movie pageThe Cider House Rules
as Nurse EdnaHomer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch....
Movie pageFur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
as Gertrude NemerovIn 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband,...
Movie pageThree Christs
as Dr. AbrahamDr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on...
Movie pageKramer vs. Kramer
as Margaret PhelpsTed Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot...
Movie pageAll the President's Men
as BookkeeperDuring the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial...
Movie pageGlory
as Sarah Blake Sturgis ShawRobert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting...
Movie pageBrubaker
as Lillian GrayThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after...
Movie pageThe Unborn
as Sofi KozmaA young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Movie pageCity Heat
as AddySet in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name,...
Movie pageDream House
as Dr. GreeleyPublisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their...
Movie pageMr. Morgan's Last Love
as Joan MorganA widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Movie pageNight Crossing
as Doris StrelzykTwo men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they...
Movie pageWilliam & Catherine: A Royal Romance
as HM Queen Elizabeth IIThe film is based on the story of William of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton. Shown in the...
Movie pageFeast of Love
as Esther StevensonA meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon....
Movie pageDeck the Halls
as Nora Regan ReillyDetective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meegan, investigate the...
Movie pageTestament
as Carol WetherlyIt is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly,...
Movie pagePlaying for Time
as Alma RoseWhen a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other...
Movie pageGigantic
as Barbara WeathersbyYoung mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms...
Movie pageMiracle on 34th Street
as Karen WalkerA department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that...
Movie pageThe Betsy
as Alicia HardemanRuthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against...
Movie pageThe New Centurions
as Dorothy FehlerAn idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is...
Movie pageThe Great White Hope
as EleanorA black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing...
Movie pageStay the Night
as Blanche KettmanBased on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who...
Movie pageThe Man in the Woods
as Vivien WaldorfOn a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her...
Movie pageChristmas Around the Corner
as Mrs. TumultyClaire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a...
Movie pageA Gunfight
as Nora TennerayWill Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray...
Movie pageLovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
as Mary MacCrackenA sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes...
Movie pageThe Loving Story
as EleanorThis documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial...
Movie pageA Question of Love
as Barbara MorelandA lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Movie pageJenifer
as Marilyn EstessThe true story of three sisters who unite in the face of adversity when one of them is diagnosed...
Movie pageNight of 100 Stars
as SelfThe most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took...
Movie pageA Friendship in Vienna
as Hannah DournenvaldInge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that...
Movie pageIn the Custody of Strangers
as Sandy CaldwellA teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in...
Movie pageThe Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of...
Movie pageWarm Springs
as Sara Delano RooseveltFranklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in...
Movie pageOpen Admissions
as Ginny CarlsenAn indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself...
Movie pageSunshine State
as Delia TempleA woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must...
Movie pageAlan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula,...
Movie pageSweet Country
as AnnaAn American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's...
Movie pageIn Love and War
as Sybil StockdaleThis movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North...
Movie pageTelling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
as SelfA short documentary on the making of "All the President's Men."
Movie pageFinding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at this Oscar-winning classic about a man who finds himself a single...
Movie pageBlood & Orchids
as Doris AshleyHester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach...
Movie pageSquare Dance
as JuanelleAn awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in...
Movie pageDeath Be Not Proud
as Frances GuntherBased on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son...
Movie pageLouisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
as Ednah CheneyLouisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the...
Movie pageMountain View
as BartenderA dance drama work that, through movement and very little spoken text, details the interaction...
Movie pageShow Boat
as Parthy HawksThe landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast...
Movie pageThis Is the West That Was
as Sarah ShawA lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as...
Movie pagePressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
as Self (archive footage)Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in...
Movie pageKennedy's Children
as WandaIn 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in...
Movie pageNight of 100 Stars III
as SelfA celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
Movie pageCalamity Jane
as Calamity JaneAn exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild...
Movie pageMalice in Wonderland
as Hedda HopperStruggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of...
Movie pageThe Powder & the Glory
as Herself - NarratorThe story of pioneering entrepreneurs Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, who built cosmetics...
Movie pageBuilding Bombs
as NarratorThis Oscar-nominated documentary chronicles everyday life in Aiken, S.C. -- ground zero for...
Movie pageWelcome Home, Johnny Bristol
as Anne PalmerAn American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive...
Movie pageWhen She Says No
as Nora StrangisAfter divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room...
Movie pageJohn Muir in the New World
as Narrator (voice)The life and the career of John Muir come to life through this inspiring and beautiful...
Movie pageLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Regina MulroneyIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
TV Show pageLaw & Order
as Regina MulroneyIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
TV Show pageThe Blacklist
as Diane FowlerRaymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI...
TV Show pageElementary
as C.A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases....
TV Show pageThe Good Wife
as Judge Suzanne MorrisAlicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce...
TV Show pageThe Good Fight
as Judge Suzanne MorrisPicking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an...
TV Show pageAdam-12
as Records Clerk (uncredited)Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - PresenterThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - NomineeThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - Co-Hostess/NomineeThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - HostThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - Nominee / PerformerThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - Nominee/PresenterThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageTony Awards
as Self - Nominee/PerformerThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
TV Show pageModern Love
as MargotAn unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that...
TV Show pageIntimate Portrait
as SelfIntimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network...
TV Show pageGolden Globe Awards
as Self - NomineeAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
TV Show pageAmerican Masters
as NarratorAmerican Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers,...
TV Show pageTales from the Loop
as KlaraThe story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and...
TV Show pageTell Me You Love Me
as Dr. May FosterThis riveting and provocative drama series explores issues of intimacy within the lives of three...
TV Show pageElisa di Rivombrosa
as Lucrezia Van Necker BeauvilleSet in Piemonte of Carlo Emanuele III, Elisa di Rivombrosa tells the love story between Count...
TV Show pageThe Book of Negroes
as MariaKidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a...
TV Show pageHallmark Hall of Fame
as uncreditedHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
TV Show pageThe American Film Institute Salute to ...
as SelfIn 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a...
TV Show pageBlood & Orchids
as Doris AshleyBlood & Orchids is a 1986 made-for-TV crime-drama film. Written for the screen by Norman Katkov,...
TV Show pageLa Figlia di Elisa Rivombrosa
as Marquise Lucrezia Adelaide Priscilla Van NeckerLa figlia di Elisa – Ritorno a Rivombrosa is an Italian television series, the third season of...
TV Show pageEleanor and Franklin
as Eleanor Roosevelt, Age 18-60The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of...
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