Jane Therese Curtin was born on September 6,1947 and is an American actress and comedian.
30 Facts About Jane Curtin
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Jane Curtin has appeared in many movie roles, including Charlene in The Librarian series of movies.
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Jane Curtin reprised one of her Saturday Night Live characters, Prymaat Conehead, in the 1993 film Coneheads.
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Jane Curtin is sometimes referred to as the "Queen of Deadpan".
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Jane Curtin was included on a 1986 list of the "Top Prime Time Actors and Actresses of All Time".
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Jane Therese Curtin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of three children born to Mary Constance and John Joseph Curtin, who owned an insurance agency.
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Jane Curtin is a cousin of actress and writer Valerie Jane Curtin.
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Jane Curtin was raised Roman Catholic, and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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Jane Curtin graduated from Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Newton in 1965.
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Jane Curtin earned an associate degree from Elizabeth Seton Junior College in New York City, class of 1967.
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Jane Curtin then attended Northeastern University from 1967 to 1968 before dropping out of college to pursue a career in comedy.
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Jane Curtin has served as a US Committee National Ambassador for UNICEF.
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In 1968, Jane Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college.
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Jane Curtin joined a comedy group, The Proposition, and performed with them until 1972.
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Jane Curtin starred in Pretzels, an off-Broadway play written by Curtin, John Forster, Judith Kahan, and Fred Grandy, in 1974.
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Jane Curtin anchored SNL's "Weekend Update" segment from 1976 to 1977, paired with Dan Aykroyd from 1977 to 1978 and Bill Murray from 1978 to 1980.
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Jane Curtin is well known for her role in the Conehead sketches as Prymaat, and as Enid Loopner.
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Jane Curtin is one of many cast members who appear in the retrospective compilation DVD The Women of SNL.
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Unlike many of her fellow SNL cast members who ventured successfully into film, Jane Curtin chose to stay mainly in television, with a few sporadic film appearances.
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In 1997, Jane Curtin narrated two episodes of the documentary television series Understanding, and she has done voice work for Recess and Cyberchase.
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Jane Curtin starred with Fred Savage in the ABC sitcom Crumbs, which debuted in January 2006 and was cancelled in May of that year.
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Jane Curtin guest-starred on Gary Unmarried as Connie, Allison's mother.
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In 1980, Jane Curtin starred with Susan Saint James and Jessica Lange in the moderate hit How to Beat the High Cost of Living.
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Jane Curtin played Moira, the Headmistress of the Motherland, in Disney's Godmothered.
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Jane Curtin first appeared on the Great White Way as Miss Proserpine Garnett in the play Candida in 1981.
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Jane Curtin later went on to be a replacement actress in two other plays, Love Letters and Noises Off, and was in the 2002 revival of Our Town, which received huge press attention as Paul Newman returned to the Broadway stage after several decades away.
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Jane Curtin has narrated several audio books, including Carl Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl.
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Jane Curtin presented Emmy Awards in 1984,1987, and 1998; the 11th Annual American Comedy Awards in 1997; and the 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards in 1997.
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Jane Curtin has guest hosted several episodes of Selected Shorts produced by Symphony Space and distributed by Public Radio International.
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Jane Curtin married television producer Patrick Francis Lynch on April 2,1975; they have one daughter, Tess Curtin Lynch, born in 1983.