American Actress and Writer Jane Alexander Death and obituary, Cause of Death

American Actress and Writer Jane Alexander Death and obituary, Cause of Death

Jane Alexander (née Quigley; born October 28, 1939) is an American actress and writer. She has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys, a Tony Award, and four Academy Awards and three Golden Globes. From 1993 to 1997, Alexander served as president of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Alexander won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway production of The Great White Hope. Other Broadway productions include 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), The Night of the Iguana (1988), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993) and Honor (1998). She was nominated for a total of eight Tony Awards and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.

Her film breakthrough came in the romantic drama “White Hope” (1970), which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Her subsequent Oscar nominations were for her roles in All Presidents’ Men (1976), Kramer & Kramer (1979), and Wills (1983).

An eight-time Emmy nominee, she earned her first nomination for her role as Eleanor Roosevelt in 1976’s “Eleanor and Franklin,” a role she had to play between the ages of 18 and 60.

She won two Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture for “The Fight for Time” (1980) and “Warm Springs” (2005).