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American screenwriter and director Country: USA

Biography of Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson, an American screenwriter and director, was born in 1954 in California.

She grew up in the Bay Area of Northern California, where her father, an engineer and inventor, was one of the early entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. Her mother, Polly Anderson, was a homemaker.

After finishing high school, Jane attended college but dropped out after a couple of years to pursue her new passion – theater – in New York.

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At the age of nineteen, she began her acting career and landed her first role in David Mamet's premiere of "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" in 1975. She then performed in various comedy shows in cabarets and nightclubs, also known as one-person shows.

One of her notable performances, "How to Raise a Gifted Child," brought her back to Los Angeles in 1982.

In 1984, Jane had a small role in the TV movie "P.O.P." and a year later appeared in an episode of the comed