Book Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander is an acclaimed American-Canadian actress and author whose career spans Broadway, film and television, and who led the National Endowment for the Arts as its chair from 1993 to 1997. She broke through in The Great White Hope, winning the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play on Broadway and then earning an Academy Award nomination for the 1970 film version. Further Oscar nominations followed for All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Testament (1983), giving her four in all. On television she won two Primetime Emmy Awards, for Playing for Time (1980) and Warm Springs (2005), and drew her first Emmy nomination portraying Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (1976). Her Broadway work includes 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998), adding up to eight Tony nominations, and she entered the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. Other honors include the Radcliffe Medal and fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a speaker she brings rare insight into acting, public arts leadership and a lifetime in the theater.