Jane McNeill-Balter, professionally credited as Jane McNeill, is an American stage, film and television actress, best known to television audiences for her recurring role as Patricia on the second season of The Walking Dead.
17 Facts About Jane McNeill
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Jane McNeill is the daughter of John McNeill and Margaret Powell McNeill.
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Jane McNeill first became involved in theater and acting as a sixth grader.
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Jane McNeill earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but began taking drama classes during her sophomore year at the university.
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Jane McNeill attended the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut and interned at the Arkansas Repertory Theater in Little Rock following college.
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Jane McNeill worked as an actor in Wilmington, North Carolina, for one year, and then relocated to Kentucky, where she joined a repertory theater for six months.
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In 1990, Jane McNeill moved to Chicago, Illinois, to pursue acting and theater.
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Jane McNeill taught drama and English in the Chicago area until she returned to North Carolina in 1999.
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The couple moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, in December 1999, where Jane McNeill worked in human resources.
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Jane McNeill was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after returning to Wilmington.
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In early June 2011, Jane McNeill was performing in a local play, "The Hallelujah Girls," when she received an email offering her a three-episode audition for the second season of The Walking Dead.
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Three weeks later, the day before a family trip to New York City, Jane McNeill learned that the role was between either her or a second actress.
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The next day, Jane McNeill learned she had gotten the part shortly after her plane landed in New York.
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Jane McNeill filmed episodes of The Walking Dead every two weeks from July to November 2011.
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In December 2011, Jane McNeill began filming Hornet's Nest, a 2012 TNT television film based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Cornwell, starring Virginia Madsen, Sherry Stringfield, Michael Boatman, Robbie Amell, and Quentin Kerr.
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Jane McNeill has appeared in the 2012 found footage horror film The Bay, Academy Award-winning film Dallas Buyers Club, and well as Mississippi Grind and Magic Mike XXL in 2015.
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Jane McNeill later played Aunt Estelle in the NBC television movies Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors and Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, and in 2018 had a recurring role in the SundanceTV drama series, Hap and Leonard.