Jane Curtin: The Golden Girl of Saturday Night Live
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Jane Therese Curtin is a Emmy Award and Golden Globe winning American Actress and comedienne. You may probably know her from being one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Curtin also starred in Cult favourite ‘The Coneheads’.
Jane was born on September 6th 1947 in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She holds an associate degree from Elizabeth Seton Junior College in New York City. She currently lives with her husband Patrick Lynch in Connecticut. In between being an award winning actress and comedienne, Jane has served as a U.S Committee National Ambassador for UNICEF.
Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college in 1968. She joined a comedy group, “The Proposition”, and performed with them until 1972. She made her break in 1974, in Pretzels, an off-Broadway play written by Curtin and Fred Grandy.
Curtin is best known for being one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. She remained on the show through the 1979-1980 season but as she was a practicing Catholic at the time, she didn’t indulge in the notorious SNL backstage party scene.
During 1976-1977, Curtin anchored SNL’s Weekend Update and was later paired with Dan Aykroyd in 1977-78 and Bill Murray in 1979-1980.
After SNL, unlike her co-stars, Jane chose to stay in television and has been extremely successful there. She has appeared in some films, though not many, and has starred in two long-running television sitcoms. She starred in Kate & Allie in 1984-1989 where she played a single mother names “Allie Lowell”.
In 1996-2001 she joined the cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun playing the human, ‘Dr. Mary Albright’, opposite the alien family who composed of John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Since then Jane has had a varied career both on small and big screen. To this day she remains one of the best loved members of the SNL cast.
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