Jane Anderson

Born 1954 · American actress, screenwriter and director

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).

Jane Anderson, in order

1. 1978 Girlfriends: acted · directed by Claudia Weill
2. 1988 Raising Miranda (TV series): created
3. 1994 It Could Happen to You: wrote · directed by Andrew Bergman · critics 73%, audiences 55% · streaming on fuboTV, Philo, Starz
4. 1995 How to Make an American Quilt: wrote · directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
5. 1998 Baby Blues (TV movie): directed
6. 2000 If These Walls Could Talk 2 (TV movie): wrote · directed by Anne Heche
7. 2001 When Billie Beat Bobby (TV movie): directed, wrote
8. 2003 Normal (TV movie): directed, wrote
9. 2005 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: directed, wrote
10. 2014 Olive Kitteridge (TV series): wrote · directed by Lisa Cholodenko
11. 2015 Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson: wrote · directed by Michelle Boyaner
12. 2017 The Wife: wrote · directed by Björn Runge · critics 85%, audiences 76%