Jane Curtin

TV Actress

Jane Curtin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States on September 6th, 1947 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 76, Jane Curtin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
September 6, 1947
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Age
76 years old
Zodiac Sign
Virgo
Networth
$16 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor
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Education
Elizabeth Seton Junior College (A.A., 1967), Northeastern University
Jane Curtin Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Patrick Lynch ​(m. 1975)​
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1
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Siblings
Valerie Curtin (cousin)
Jane Curtin Career

She has served as a U.S. Committee National Ambassador for UNICEF. In 1968, Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college. She joined a comedy group, The Proposition, and performed with them until 1972. She starred in Pretzels, an off-Broadway play written by Curtin, John Forster, Judith Kahan, and Fred Grandy, in 1974.

One of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players of NBC's Saturday Night Live (1975), Curtin remained on the show through the 1979–1980 season. Guest host Eric Idle said that Curtin was "very much a 'Let's come in, let's know our lines, let's do it properly, and go' ... She was very sensible, very focused", and disliked the drug culture in which many of the cast participated. Show writer Al Franken stated that she "was so steady. Had a really strong moral center, and as such was disgusted by much of the show and the people around it".

On the show, and mirroring her own low-key real life, she frequently played straight-woman characters, often as a foil to John Belushi and Gilda Radner. 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. On occasional "Weekend Update" segments, her newscaster character served as a foil to John Belushi, who often gave a rambling and out-of-control "commentary" on events of the day. During these sketches, she timidly tried to get Belushi to come to the point, which would only make him angrier. Curtin's newscaster also introduced baseball expert Chico Escuela (Garrett Morris), a heavily accented Dominican, who started his sketches by saying, "Thank you, Hane", before repeating his famous catchphrase, "Baseball been bery, bery good to me!" She also introduced Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner)and would listen in exasperated silence at Roseannadanna's disjointed commentary before ultimately cutting her off. In addition, she sang in the "Chevy's Girls" sketch in season two, episode two, alongside Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner.

In a parody of the "Point-Counterpoint" segment of the news program 60 Minutes, Curtin delivered a controlled liberal viewpoint (à la Shana Alexander) vs. Dan Aykroyd, who (in the manner of James J. Kilpatrick) epitomized the right-wing view, albeit with an over-the-top "attack" journalist slant. Curtin presented the liberal "Point" portion first. Then Aykroyd presented the "Counterpoint" portion, sometimes beginning with the statement, "Jane, you ignorant slut," to which she replied, "Dan, you pompous ass." The recurring segment has been discussed in an article on "How to Respectfully Disagree" in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Curtin is also well known for her role in the Conehead sketches as Prymaat (wife/mother of the Conehead family), and as Enid Loopner (in sketches with Gilda Radner and Bill Murray). She is one of many cast members who appear in the retrospective compilation DVD The Women of SNL (2010, 97 minutes).

Unlike many of her fellow SNL cast members who ventured successfully into film, Curtin chose to stay mainly in television, with a few sporadic film appearances. To date, she has starred in two long-running television sitcoms. First, in Kate & Allie (1984–89), with Susan Saint James, she played a single mother named "Allie Lowell" and twice won the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Following Kate & Allie, Curtin co-starred on the 1990 sitcom Working It Out with Stephen Collins. The series was created by Bill Persky, a writer, director, and producer of Kate & Allie, but it was not successful and was cancelled after 13 episodes. Later, she was part of the cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) playing a human, Dr. Mary Albright, opposite the alien family composed of John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. As with SNL, her mostly strait-laced character was often confounded by the zany and whimsical antics of the Solomon family.

In 1997, Curtin narrated two episodes of the documentary television series Understanding, and she has done voice work for Recess and Cyberchase. She guest starred on Sesame Street in 1985.

Curtin also starred with Fred Savage in the ABC sitcom Crumbs, which debuted in January 2006 and was cancelled in May of that year. She also guest-starred on Gary Unmarried as Connie, Allison's mother. In 2012, she joined Unforgettable as Dr. Joanne Webster, a gifted but crusty medical examiner; in 2014, she occasionally reprised her role as the first Guardian on The Librarians. In 2020, she had a co-starring role as a quirky mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom United We Fall.

In 1980, Curtin starred with Susan Saint James and Jessica Lange in the moderate hit How to Beat the High Cost of Living. In 1993, Curtin and Dan Aykroyd were reunited in Coneheads, a full-length motion picture based on their popular SNL characters. They also appeared together as the voices of a pair of wasps in the film Antz. In 2009, she played Paul Rudd and Andy Samberg's mother in I Love You, Man. In 2013, she took a small role in The Heat as Mrs. Mullins, the mother of Detective Mullins. Curtin played Moira, the Headmistress of the Motherland, in Disney's Godmothered.

Curtin has also performed on Broadway on occasion. She first appeared on the Great White Way as Miss Proserpine Garnett in the play Candida in 1981. She 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.

She also has narrated several audio books, including Carl Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl.

On May 7, 2010, Curtin placed second in the Jeopardy! Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational, winning $250,000 for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Michael McKean won the tournament, while Cheech Marin came in third.

She 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.

Curtin has guest hosted several episodes of Selected Shorts produced by Symphony Space and distributed by Public Radio International.

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In a recent film about the launch of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, success actor Nicholas Braun will appear as Jim Henson, while Gabriel LaBelle will play Lorne Michaels

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 12, 2024
People were made to laugh on Saturday Night Live, but a new film would focus on the drama that inspired the late night staple in the 1970s. Jason Reitman, 46, who has already cast Ella Hunt to play the late Gilda Radner, Rebecca Fairn as Laraine Newman, and Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, has now decided which actors will play the male characters in The Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players. Gabriel LaBelle, 21, best known for his role as Sammy, a budding filmmaker in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmen, will play creator and producer Lorne Michaels.

In a recent Jason Reitman-directed film SNL 1975, Dickinson actress Ella Hunt will play comedy legend Gilda Radner, as Emily Fairn and Kim Matula take on Laraine Newman and Jane Curtin roles

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 27, 2024
In the forthcoming film SNL 1975, Dickinson actress Ella Hunt will play comedy legend Gilda Radner. Hunt, 25, will appear alongside Emily Fairn and Kim Matula, 35, as the long-running sketch comedy show's former cast members, Radner, Laraine Newman, and Jane Curtin, respectively, according to Deadline.

Kylie Minogue joins cast of Shonda Rhimes' Netflix series The Residence starring Uzo Aduba

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 15, 2023
Kylie Minogue is one of the many actors to be included in the ensemble cast of the forthcoming Netflix film The Residence. The series, created by Paul William Davies and inspired by the book The Residence: Inside The Private Life Of The White House by Kate Andersen Brower, revolves around a murder case involving service workers of the White House. According to a variety of publications including Variety, Minogue, 54, will play a version of herself in the murder-mystery drama. According to a number of publications such as Variety, Jane Curtin, James Babson, Eliza Coupe, Izzy Diaz, James Fitzgerald, Peter Thompson, Juliette Jeffers, Sumalee Montano, Emma Watson, E. L. Losada, E. H. Losada, Mel Rodriguez, and Rebecca Field are just added to a a. They join former main cast members Uzo Aduba, Andre Braugher, Susan Kelechi Watson, Ken Marino, Jason Lee, Ken Marino, Ken Marino, Edwina Bell, Daniel Perrault, Bronson Pinchot, Dan Perrault, Margaret Wiseman, Randall Park, Matthew Walter, and Barrett Foa.