Jane Alexander (born October , ) is an American author, actress, and
former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony
Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner.Alexander made her
Broadway debut in in The Great White Hope and won the Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, Rms
Riv Vu (), The Night of the Iguana (), The Sisters Rosensweig () and
Honour (). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations
and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in .She went
on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in and
received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her
performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the
President's Men (), Kramer vs. Kramer (), and Testament (). An
eight-time Emmy nominee, she received her first nomination for playing
Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (), a role that required her
to age from to . She has won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Playing for Time () and Warm
Springs ().
former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony
Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner.Alexander made her
Broadway debut in in The Great White Hope and won the Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, Rms
Riv Vu (), The Night of the Iguana (), The Sisters Rosensweig () and
Honour (). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations
and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in .She went
on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in and
received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her
performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the
President's Men (), Kramer vs. Kramer (), and Testament (). An
eight-time Emmy nominee, she received her first nomination for playing
Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (), a role that required her
to age from to . She has won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Playing for Time () and Warm
Springs ().
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