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15 Facts About Jane Sibbett

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Jane Moore Sibbett was born on November 28,1962 and is an American actress, producer, writer, and director.

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Jane Sibbett was the youngest of five children and was raised on Alameda Island, in the San Francisco Bay.

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Jane Sibbett is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she became a member of the California Delta chapter of Pi Beta Phi, an international women's fraternity.

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In 1989, Jane Sibbett won the role of Laurie Parr on the CBS comedy The Famous Teddy Z, co-starring with Jon Cryer and Alex Rocco.

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In 1991, Jane Sibbett was cast as status-conscious bombshell Heddy Newman on the Fox sitcom Herman's Head, which quickly gained a cult following on the young broadcast network and lasted three seasons.

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Jane Sibbett has appeared in more than 200 episodes of multiple TV series, including 21 Jump Street and The Nanny.

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Jane Sibbett starred in the 1998 movie Noah alongside Tony Danza and Wallace Shawn as well as in 1998's The Second Arrival, alongside Patrick Muldoon and Michael Sarrazin.

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Jane Sibbett co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in It Takes Two, and the telefilm Au Pair.

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In 1996, Jane Sibbett was offered the role of Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.

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CBS executives felt that she was right for the role and Jane Sibbett signed a deal for the show; however, she vacated the role upon learning that star Ray Romano had not been informed, along with other key staff members, that she had been cast in the part.

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Jane Sibbett has co-starred in the movies Jessica Darling's It List, Winter Wedding, A Date By Christmas Eve, the pilot Manopause, and the 27th Annual Critics' Choice 2022 nominee List of a Lifetime directed by indie director Roxy Shih.

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In 2019, Sibbett won the Michael D Publishers Award, a nonfiction writing scholarship to the Story Summit Writer's School, to complete the manuscript of her memoirs, About Jane.

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Jane Sibbett joined the Story Summit's group of faculty, supporting other burgeoning writers and served as the Chairperson for one year for its Storyteller Foundation.

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Jane Sibbett has long been an advocate for survivors of domestic violence, working with the nine shelters of 1736 Family Crisis Center in Los Angeles.

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In 1992, Jane Sibbett married Karl Fink, a TV writer and producer who worked on the first two seasons of Herman's Head.