Jane Alexander bio
Jane Alexander’s distinguished acting career includes her Tony Award winning performance in The Great White Hope and six other nominated performances in many additional Broadway shows. She received an Obie for The Sisters Rosensweig, and counts more than 100 roles to her credit on stages from Los Angeles to London. A four time Oscar nominee for the films Testament, Kramer vs, Kramer, All the President’s Men, and The Great White Hope, Ms. Alexander’s most recent feature film is Fur to be released in October, 2006. Her many television roles include Eleanor Roosevelt in the mini-series Eleanor and Franklin, and The White House Years, for which she received the TV Critics Circle Award. She received Emmys for Playing for Time, and the recent Warm Springs on HBO. In 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed Ms. Alexander the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a position she held for four tumultuous years while the 104th congress sought unsuccessfully to eliminate the agency. She documents her time in Washington in her memoir Command Performance, An Actress in the Theater of Politics. In 2000 Governor George Pataki appointed Ms. Alexander a Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, for the State of New York. She is active on the boards of the Wildlife Conservation Society, American Bird Conservancy and the MacDowell Colony.
