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.
Bookkeeper
All the President's Men
Virginia
Terminator Salvation
Dr. Grasnik
The Ring
Lillian Gray
Brubaker
Nurse Edna
The Cider House Rules
Carol Wetherly
Testament
Margaret Phelps
Kramer vs. Kramer
Sofi Kozma
The Unborn
Barbara Weathersby
Gigantic
Dorothy Fehler
The New Centurions
Addy
City Heat
Gertrude Nemerov
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Dr. Greeley
Dream House
Alma Rose
Playing for Time
Nora Tenneray
A Gunfight
Nora Regan Reilly
Deck the Halls
Doris Strelzyk
Night Crossing
Juanelle
Square Dance
Wanda
Kennedy's Children
Self (archive footage)
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Testament at 20
Narrator
Building Bombs
Joan Morgan
Mr. Morgan's Last Love
Sandy Caldwell
In the Custody of Strangers
Hannah Dournenvald
A Friendship in Vienna
HM Queen Elizabeth II
William & Catherine: A Royal Romance
Sybil Stockdale
In Love and War
Hedda Hopper
Malice in Wonderland
Karen Walker
Miracle on 34th Street
Marilyn Estess
Jenifer
Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane
Eleanor
The Great White Hope
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Frances Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
Eleanor
The Loving Story
Sarah Shaw
This Is the West That Was
Alicia Hardeman
The Betsy
Mary MacCracken
Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Ginny Carlsen
Open Admissions
Anne Palmer
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol
Blanche Kettman
Stay the Night
Doris Ashley
Blood & Orchids
Esther Stevenson
Feast of Love
Self
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Dr. Abraham
Three Christs
Barbara Moreland
A Question of Love
Nora Strangis
When She Says No
Anna
Sweet Country
Vivien Waldorf
The Man in the Woods
Herself - Narrator
The Powder & the Glory
Parthy Hawks
Show Boat
Mrs. Tumulty
Christmas Around the Corner
Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw
Glory
Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Delia Temple
Sunshine State
Self
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Le donne non vogliono più
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Narrator (voice)
John Muir in the New World
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Drug Free Kids: A Parents' Guide
Bartender
Mountain View
Ednah Cheney
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Narrator
The Artist Was a Woman
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
66
Gender
Female
Birthday
1939-10-28
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As
Jane Quigley