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Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an
United States|American actress.  Born Jane Quigley
 in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Sarah
Lawrence College and the University of Edinburgh,
before beginning to act on the stage in
Washington, DC.

In 1969 she debuted on Broadway in The Great White
Hope, and took it to Hollywood, where she was
nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. 
She received other nominations for All the
President's Men and Kramer vs. Kramer.  She also
starred in the television productions of Eleanor
and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White
House Years.  Other television movies include
Playing for Time, Calamity Jane, Malice in
Wonderland, Blood & Orchids, In Love and War and
Daughter of the Streets.

In 1983 she received another Oscar nomination for
the post-nuclear war film Testament
(film)|Testament.

In 1993, President of the United States|President
Bill Clinton appointed her as the head of the
National Endowment for the Arts.