1. Jane Badler is known for her role as Diana, the main antagonist in NBC's science fiction series V between 1983 and 1985.
18 Facts About Jane Badler
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Jane Badler has become an established nightclub singer in Australia, where she still resides, and has released three albums.
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Jane Badler spent her teen years in Great Neck, New York, moving to Manchester, New Hampshire, when she was in high school.
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When Jane Badler was 18, her father and brother were killed in a plane crash.
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Jane Badler won the title Miss New Hampshire and competed at the 1973 Miss America Pageant.
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Jane Badler starred on the daytime soap opera The Doctors as Natalie Bell from 1981 to 1982.
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Jane Badler reprised the role in the sequel miniseries V: The Final Battle and again on V: The Series, which ran for one season from 1984 to 1985.
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Jane Badler then traveled to Australia to play agent Shannon Reed in the 1980s revival of Mission: Impossible, joining the series midway through its first season ; then stayed with the series for its second season before it was cancelled in early 1990.
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Jane Badler later appeared in the role of Mrs Peacock on the Australian game show Cluedo from 1992 to 1993, and had a guest-starring role in Snowy River: The McGregor Saga in 1995.
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In March 2010, Jane Badler was cast as the villainous Diana Marshall in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
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Jane Badler had a four-month guest contract with the show.
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Jane Badler appeared in nine of the second season's ten episodes, commencing in January 2011.
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In November 2020, Jane Badler played Lauren Balmer in the horror film Surrogate.
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Jane Badler released her debut album on June 1,2008.
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Jane Badler then teamed up with Australian musicians Matt Doll and Byron St John to co-write her third album, Opus, which was released in September 2014.
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In 1990, Jane Badler married Australian businessman Stephen Hains, son of David Hains.
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Jane Badler remained in Australia and the couple reside in Melbourne.
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On January 7,2020, Jane Badler announced that her 27-year-old son, actor Harry Hains, died of a fentanyl overdose following a battle with "mental illness, chronic sleeping disorders, and addiction".