Jane Anderson wrote and directed the feature film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, and wrote the film It Could Happen to You, starring Nicolas Cage.
11 Facts About Jane Anderson
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Jane Anderson won an Emmy Award for writing the screenplay for the miniseries Olive Kitteridge.
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Jane Anderson got her start as an actress, before getting her first writing job as a writer and consultant on the sitcom The Facts of Life.
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Jane Anderson followed this up by creating the short-lived sitcom Raising Miranda, which was cancelled in its first season.
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Jane Anderson then had several other TV series gigs, and wrote her first play, The Baby Dance.
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Jane Anderson later wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed television movies, including The Baby Dance, based on her play and starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; When Billie Beat Bobby starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver; and Normal, based on her play Looking for Normal and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson.
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Jane Anderson wrote the segment "1961" of the 2000 HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2, which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy Award for her portrayal of an elderly lesbian prevented from hospital visitation with her dying long-time companion.
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Jane Anderson became a writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show's second season in 2008.
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Jane Anderson was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for her work on the second season.
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In 2015, Anderson wrote the documentary Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson about her great aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, a lesbian and painter who was institutionalized in the 1920s and spent the rest of her life in an asylum for the mentally ill.
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Jane Anderson cites Wilkinson as an inspiration for her own drawing.