Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author 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 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Other Broadway credits include, 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honour (1998). She has received a total of seven Tony Award nominations and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.

She went on to star in the film version of The Great White Hope in 1970 and received the first of four Academy Award nominations for her performance. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs Kramer (1979) and Testament (1983). An eight-time Emmy nominee, she received her first nomination for playing Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin (1976), a role that required her to age from 18 to 60. She has won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Playing for Time (1980) and Warm Springs (2005).

Jane Alexander (disambiguation)

Jane Alexander (born 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Jane Alexander (artist)

Jane Alexander (born 1959) is a South African artist and sculptor best known for her sculpture, The Butcher Boys, which can be considered her response to the state of emergency in South Africa in the late 1980s. She creates sculptures, installations, and photomontages which are based on her own perceptions of actual events, people, or issues that occur in the world around her.

Biography

Alexander was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1959. Growing up, she was not too aware of all the political issues that surrounded her, but upon the time she entered university and moved to Braamfontein she became more aware of the social and political issues that were present in South Africa. Her interest in these issues influenced her future art pieces.

Alexander attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she obtained a bachelor's degree and a Masters in Fine Arts in 1982 and 1988. During the course of her Masters, Alexander produced one of her most recognisable pieces of art; The Butcher Boys. The Butcher Boys is a sculpture of three men sitting on a bench that have peculiar appearances made out of plaster. In an article in the New York Times, Holland Cotter describes that "their bodies, white-skinned and muscular, are superb, but with suture lines running from navel to throat, also disturbing". Alexander currently lectures on sculpture, photography and drawing at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town.