Jane Adams
Acting
Biography
Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls. Her film roles include Happiness (1998), Wonder Boys (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Little Children (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the HBO series Hung (2009–11).
Born: April 1, 1965
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., USA
Known For
House
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Twin Peaks
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
Liberty!
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
Good American Family
A Midwestern couple adopts who they believe to be a little girl with dwarfism but gradually started to believe she may not be who she said she was.
The Outer Limits
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
Frasier
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
Filmography
as JJ
as Nikki
as Paulene
as Pamela
as Tamara
as Nina
as Sarah
as Jane
as Miriam Keneally
as Gwendolyn
as April Mitchum
as Summer
as Annabelle Jones
as Woman on Beach
as Maggie Murphy
as Dr. Claire Powell
as Marie
as Dr. Bentel
as June
as Mabel Tell
as June Marshall
as Tanya Skagle
as Director
as Eleanor
as Ruth Fraser / Ruth Ferguson
as Nancy Bernstein
as Nicole
as Sheila
as Alice
as Rochelle
as Brianna Lincoln
as White-Faced Women
as Bonnie
as Mother of Dead Baby (uncredited)
as Self (uncredited)
as Mona
as Sylvia Campbell
as Amanda (segment "The Doghouse")
as Clair Forsyth
as Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric
as Belinda Goff
as Oola
as Dr. Phyllis Sheeler
as Joanne Parsons
as Ruthie
as Self (archive footage)
as Mary Joan
as Sydney Anne (uncredited)
as Joy Jordan
as Marie
as Irene Swan
as Sara Scott
as Karen Lukens
as Nettie Bolt
as Dr. Megan Eisenberg
as Mona Bailey
as Ruth Hale
as Evans
as Mel Karnofsky
as Randi Jost
as Meg Bradley
as Suzanne Maloney
as Constance Talbot
as Elly Robinson
as Charlotte Rose Cantrell
as Andrea
as Marty Brodie