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Jane Alexander: Great White Hope
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Jane Alexander (Sara Delano Roosevelt) received Oscar® nominations for "Testament," "The Great White Hope," "All the President's Men" and "Kramer vs. Kramer." She won an Emmy® for "Playing for Time," and received nominations for "Law & Order," "Malice in Wonderland," "Calamity Jane," as well as "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years" and "Eleanor and Franklin," playing Eleanor Roosevelt in both productions.
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A Tony and Emmy Award-winner and four-time Oscar nominee, Jane Alexander has starred in dozens of movies, including "The Great White Hope," "All the President's Men," "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Eleanor and Franklin." Her stage credits include "The Great White Hope," "Shadowlands" and "The Sisters Rosenweig."
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Alexander's professional career began at the Charles Playhouse in Boston in 1964. The following year she moved on to the Arena Stage company in Washington, D.C. and had 15 parts in plays there between 1965 and 1968. Her career at Arena Stage culminated in her creation of the role of Eleanor in Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope, playing the mistress of troubled black heavyweight boxer Jack Jefferson - based on the real-life figure of Jack Johnson and played by actor James Earl Jones. The play was a major success and moved in 1969 to Broadway in New York, where Alexander's performance earned her a Tony award.
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NEW YORK — Jane Alexander is no stranger to the spotlight. As an actress, she won a Tony award for her role in "The Great White Hope" and an Emmy award for "Playing with Time."
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Alexander is the Tony-winning actress who has appeared in The Great White Hope, Find Your Way Home, First Monday in October, The Visit, The Sisters Rosensweig and Honour. More recent appearances include Ghosts at Shakespeare Theatre and Rose and Walsh at the Geffen Playhouse. Her career has ... included parts in such films as "All the President's Men" and "Kramer Vs. Kramer," and a famous stint as the direction of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. Like her co-star, James Earl Jones, she went on to play the part both on Broadway (1968), winning a Tony Award for her performance, and in the film version (1970), which earned her an Oscar nomination.[3] Alexander's additional screen credits include All the President's Men (1976), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Testament (1983), all of which earned her Oscar nods, Brubaker (1980), The Cider House Rules (1999), and Fur (2006).
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