Product Code Database
Jane Anderson is an American playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and actress. She wrote and directed the feature film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005), and wrote the film It Could Happen to You (1994), starring Nicolas Cage. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her work on the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014).
Her first film experience was writing the 1993 HBO film The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, starring Holly Hunter; the film was critically acclaimed, and TV critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall in their 2016 book named it the 2nd greatest American TV movie of all time, behind Steven Spielberg's Duel. (2016). 9781455588190, Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781455588190 She later wrote and directed several other critically acclaimed television movies, including The Baby Dance (1998), based on her play and starring Stockard Channing and Laura Dern; When Billie Beat Bobby (2001) starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver; and Normal (2003), based on her play Looking for Normal and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. She also wrote the segment "1961" of the 2000 HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2, which won Vanessa Redgrave an Emmy Award for her portrayal of an elderly lesbian prevented from hospital visitation with her dying long-time companion.
She became a writer for the AMC television drama Mad Men for the show's second season in 2008. She was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for her work on the second season.
In 2015, Anderson wrote the documentary about her great-aunt, Edith Lake Wilkinson, a lesbian and painter who was institutionalized in the 1920s and spent the rest of her life in an asylum for the mentally ill. Anderson cites Wilkinson as an inspiration for her own drawing.
In 2017, Anderson wrote the Glenn Close-starring The Wife.
| 1994 | It Could Happen to You | ||||
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | ||||
| 2005 | |||||
| 2015 | Documentary | ||||
| 2017 | The Wife |
| 1986 | Episodes "The Apartment", "Ready or Not" and "Write and Wrong" | |||
| 1988 | Raising Miranda | Episodes "Black Monday" and "Home for the Holidays" | ||
| 1989 | Episode "How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation" | |||
| 1991 | Episodes "Dream Child" and "A Type of Love Story" | |||
| 2008 | Mad Men | Episode "The Gold Violin" | ||
| 2014 | Olive Kitteridge | Miniseries |
TV movies
| 1993 | ||||
| 1998 | ||||
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Segment "1961" | ||
| 2001 | When Billie Beat Bobby | |||
| 2003 | Normal |
Other credits
| 1985–86 | Program consultant | 5 episodes | |
| 1986 | Who's the Boss? | Episode "Charmed Lives" | |
| 1989 | Executive story editor | 7 episodes |
| 1978 | Regular performer | TV series | |
| 1978 | Girlfriends | Omega Receptionist | Film |
| 1984 | P.O.P. | Dana McNeil | TV film |
| 1984 | E/R | Mrs. Grettie | "Only a Nurse" |
| 1985 | Karen | "We Get Letters" |
|
|
