Jane Curtin
Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947)[1] is an American actress and comedian.
Jane Curtin
First coming to prominence as an original cast member on the hit TV comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie portraying the role of Allison "Allie" Lowell. Curtin later starred in the hit series 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), playing the role of Dr. Mary Albright.
Curtin has also appeared in many movie roles, including Charlene in The Librarian series of movies (2004–2008). She reprised one of her Saturday Night Live characters, Prymaat (Clorhone) Conehead, in the 1993 film Coneheads. She is sometimes referred to as the "Queen of Deadpan".[2] The Philadelphia Inquirer once called her a "refreshing drop of acid".[3] She was included on a 1986 list of the "Top Prime Time Actors and Actresses of All Time".[4]
Early life[edit]
Jane Therese Curtin was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[5] the second of three children born to Mary Constance (née Farrell) and John Joseph Curtin, who owned an insurance agency.[6] Her maternal ancestry is Irish,[7] while the paternal, Curtin, ancestry is Irish,[8] originally from Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare. Curtin has one younger brother, Larry Curtin, who lives in South Florida;[9] and an older brother, John J. "Jack" Curtin (d. 2008).[10] Curtin is a cousin of actress and writer Valerie Curtin. Her uncle was the radio personality Joseph Curtin.
She was raised Roman Catholic, and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated from Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Newton in 1965. Curtin earned an associate degree from Elizabeth Seton Junior College in New York City, class of 1967.[11] She then attended Northeastern University from 1967 to 1968 before dropping out of college to pursue a career in comedy.[5]
Personal life[edit]
She married television producer Patrick Francis Lynch on April 2, 1975; they have one daughter, Tess Curtin Lynch, born in 1983.[18] They live in Sharon, Connecticut.