1. Jane Kaczmarek is best known for her role as Lois on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, which earned her 3 Golden Globe nominations and 7 Primetime Emmy nominations.
14 Facts About Jane Kaczmarek
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Jane Kaczmarek appeared as Linda in Equal Justice, Judge Trudy Kessler in Raising the Bar, Ann in Falling in Love, Emily in The Heavenly Kid, and Gayle in 6 Balloons.
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Jane Kaczmarek had recurring roles as Holly in Cybill and as Maureen Cutler in Frasier and is known for a large number of recurring and guest-starring roles in various television shows.
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Jane Kaczmarek was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of Evelyn, a teacher, and Edward Jane Kaczmarek, a US Department of Defense worker.
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Jane Kaczmarek grew up in Greendale, a village outside Milwaukee, where she was raised a Roman Catholic.
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Jane Kaczmarek appeared on many television shows in recurring and guest-starring roles, including St Elsewhere, sitcoms like Frasier and Cybill, and many more.
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Jane Kaczmarek was a regular on the first eight episodes of the Showtime run of The Paper Chase, as Connie Lehman.
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In 1999, Jane Kaczmarek was cast to play Lois in the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, which premiered on January 9,2000.
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On July 22,2011, it was confirmed that Jane Kaczmarek would make a vocal appearance as Red Jessica in the television series Jake and the Never Land Pirates during its second season early 2012.
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Jane Kaczmarek was the narrator in the 2011 Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and PBS production of Wisconsin's Nazi Resistance: The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story, a documentary about the life of fellow Milwaukee native Mildred Fish-Harnack who in 1943 was the only American woman to ever be personally sentenced to death by order of Adolf Hitler for her role in the German Nazi Resistance Movement.
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Jane Kaczmarek married fellow Wisconsin native and actor Bradley Whitford on August 15,1992.
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Jane Kaczmarek added that she used to believe that she could "go it alone and as long as I had some fabulous boy on my arm, or man, and my career was sailing, that's all I needed" whereas she now had grown to appreciate the support of her girlfriends "to talk about kids, to talk about marriages, to talk about just life".
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Jane Kaczmarek underwent a hip replacement in April 2004, due to chronic arthritis.
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Jane Kaczmarek recovered quickly, and used an X-ray of her new hip for her Emmy campaign the following summer, advertising herself as "the only Emmy nominee with an artificial hip ".