Jane Alexander
A much-lauded Broadway performer whose Tony Award-winning performance in "The Great White Hope" led to an Academy Award-nominated reprisal of her role on the big screen in 1970, Jane Alexander established herself as one of the most respected actresses across all media during the 1970s. In a career that stretched ahead more than three decades, the fresh-scrubbed New Englander was often cast as forthright, sympathetic characters, and was noted for the seemingly effortless simplicity and unmannered honesty of her work. Alexander never strayed far from the Broadway stage, earning multiple Tony nominations for dramas including "The Visit" and "First Monday in October," and taking home an award for "The Sisters Rosensweig." Onscreen, Alexander earned Oscar nominations for dramas including "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979) and the gripping nuclear holocaust story "Testament" (1983). Throughout her career, Alexander also showed an affinity for biographical and historical material, like the Watergate tell-all "All the President's Men" (1977), for which she was Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actress; her work in several biographical films about the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, portraying first lady and Civil Rights advocate Eleanor Roosevelt in "Eleanor and Franklin" (ABC, 1976) and "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years" (ABC, 1977) as well as the president's overbearing mother Sara in the HBO film "Warm Springs" (2005). Respected by the arts community for her valuable work as head of the National Endowment for the Arts during the 1990s, Alexander remained one of the most respected actresses well into the new millennium.
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Jane Alexander
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man in the Woods | Vivien Waldorf (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
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Christmas Around the Corner | Mrs. Tumulty (Character) | - | 2018 |
41% |
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Three Christs | Dr. Abraham (Character) | $37.3K | 2017 |
33% |
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Last Love | Joan (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Deck the Halls | Nora Regan Reilly (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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William & Catherine: A Royal Romance | HM Queen Elizabeth II (Character) | - | 2011 |
7% |
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Dream House | Dr. Greeley (Character) | $21.3M | 2011 |
33% |
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Terminator Salvation | Virginia (Character) | $125.3M | 2009 |
10% |
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The Unborn | Sofi Kozma (Character) | $42.6M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women | Ednah Cheney (Character) | - | 2008 |
35% |
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Gigantic | Mrs. Weathersby (Character) | $102.1K | 2008 |
39% |
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Feast of Love | Unknown (Character) | $3.5M | 2007 |
33% |
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus | Gertrude Nemerov (Character) | $220.9K | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Warm Springs | Sara Delano Roosevelt (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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In Search of the Titanic | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Carry Me Home | Mrs. Gortimer (Character) | - | 2003 |
71% |
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The Ring | Dr. Grasnik (Character) | $128.6M | 2002 |
80% |
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Sunshine State | Delia Temple (Character) | $3.1M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Jenifer | Marilyn Estess (Character) | - | 2001 |
71% |
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The Cider House Rules | Nurse Edna (Character) | $57.5M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stay the Night | Blanche Kettman (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daughter of the Streets | Peggy Ryan (Character) | - | 1990 |
95% |
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Glory | Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw (uncredited) (Character) | $25.5M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Open Admissions | Ginny Carlsen (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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A Friendship in Vienna | Hannah Dournenvald (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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In Love and War | Sybil Stockdale (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Square Dance |
Juanelle (Character), Executive Producer |
$13.7K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweet Country | Anna (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Malice in Wonderland | Hedda Hopper (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Calamity Jane |
Calamity Jane (Character), Producer |
- | 1984 |
22% |
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City Heat | Addy (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When She Says No | Nora Strangis (Character) | - | 1984 |
89% |
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Testament | Carol Wetherly (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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In the Custody of Strangers | Sandy Caldwell (Character) | - | 1982 |
80% |
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Night Crossing | Doris Strelzyk (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Liar | Eleanor Roosevelt age 18-60 (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Playing for Time | Alma Rose (Character) | - | 1980 |
74% |
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Brubaker | Lillian Gray (Character) | - | 1980 |
90% |
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Kramer vs. Kramer | Margaret Phelps (Character) | - | 1979 |
17% |
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The Betsy | Alicia Hardeman (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II | Mary MacCracken (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Question of Love | Barbara Moreland (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Eleanor Roosevelt (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Circle of Children | Mary MacCracken (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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Eleanor and Franklin | Eleanor Roosevelt (Character) | - | 1976 |
94% |
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All the President's Men | Bookkeeper (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Death Be Not Proud | Frances Gunther (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The West Was Never Like This | Sarah Shaw (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Is the West That Was | Sarah Shaw (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Miracle on 34th Street | Karen Walker (Character) | - | 1973 |
60% |
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The New Centurions | Dorothy Fehler (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol | Anne Palmer (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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A Gunfight | Nora Tenneray (Character) | - | 1971 |
43% |
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The Great White Hope | Eleanor Backman (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
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95% | 66% | The Good Fight | Judge Suzanne Morris (Guest Star) | 2017 |
95% | 89% | Elementary | C. (Guest Star) | 2014 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live From Lincoln Center | Music Performer | 2015 |
93% | 91% | The Good Wife | Judge Suzanne Morris (Guest Star) | 2011-2012 2014-2015 |
57% | 92% | Forever | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Book of Negroes | Maria Witherspoon (Character) | 2015 |
91% | 79% | The Blacklist | Diane Fowler (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Masters | Ednah Dow Cheney (Character) | 2009 |
62% | No Score Yet | Tell Me You Love Me | Dr. May Foster (Character) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Regina Mulroney (Guest Star) | 2000 |