Jane Sibbett

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Jane Sibbett
Born
Jane Moore Sibbett

(1962-11-28) November 28, 1962 (age 62) [1] [2]
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
Spouse
Karl Fink
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(m. 1992;div. 2016)​
Children3

Jane Moore Sibbett (born November 28, 1962) is an American actress. Her most notable roles include Heddy Newman on the Fox television series Herman's Head and Carol Willick on the television series Friends .

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Early life

Sibbett was born on November 28, 1962, in Berkeley, California. She was the youngest of five children and was raised on Alameda Island, [3] in the San Francisco Bay. [4] Sibbett is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she became a member of the California Delta chapter of Pi Beta Phi, an international women's fraternity. [5]

Career

Sibbett started her acting career as Jane Wilson on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1986–87, for which she was nominated for a Best Newcomer Soap Opera Digest Awards. [6] [ failed verification ] In 1989, Sibbett won the role of Laurie Parr on the CBS comedy The Famous Teddy Z , co-starring with Jon Cryer and Alex Rocco. The series lasted one season. In 1991, Sibbett was cast as status-conscious bombshell Heddy Newman on the Fox sitcom Herman's Head , [7] which quickly gained a cult following on the young broadcast network and lasted three seasons. Beginning in 1994, she played the occasional role of Carol Willick on Friends, a part-time stint that lasted until the end of the show's seventh season in 2001. During her Friends association, Sibbett had regular roles on the short-lived CBS sitcom If Not for You (1995), playing the jilted fiancée of her former Herman's Head co-star Hank Azaria, and in the second season of The WB's Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1997–98), playing school headmaster Dr. Katherine Emerson.

Sibbett has appeared in more than 200 episodes of multiple TV series, including 21 Jump Street and The Nanny . She starred in the 1998 movie Noah alongside Tony Danza and Wallace Shawn as well as in 1998's The Second Arrival , alongside Patrick Muldoon and Michael Sarrazin. Sibbett appeared in Dan O'Bannon's 1992 film The Resurrected. She also co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in It Takes Two (1995), [8] [9] and the telefilm Au Pair (1999). [10] [11]

In 1996, Sibbett was offered the role of Debra Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond . CBS executives felt that she was right for the role and Sibbett signed a deal for the show; however, she vacated the role upon learning that star Ray Romano had not been informed, along with other key staff members, that she had been cast in the part. The role went to Patricia Heaton, who had been the first choice of Romano and show creator Philip Rosenthal. [12] [13]

Sibbett has co-starred in the movies Jessica Darling's It List (2016), Winter Wedding (2017), A Date By Christmas Eve (2019), the pilot Manopause (2020), and the 27th Annual Critics' Choice 2022 nominee List of a Lifetime (2021) directed by indie director Roxy Shih. [14] [15]

In 2019, Sibbett won the Michael D Publishers Award, a nonfiction writing scholarship to the Story Summit Writer's School, to complete the manuscript of her memoirs, About Jane. [16] As part of the scholarship, Sibbett also joined the Story Summit's group of faculty, supporting other burgeoning writers. [17]

Philanthropy

Sibbett has long been an advocate for survivors of domestic violence, working with the nine shelters of 1736 Family Crisis Center in Los Angeles. [18]

Personal life

In 1989, Sibbett began dating Jon Cryer after working with him for some time on The Famous Teddy Z. [19]

In 1992, Sibbett married Karl Fink, a TV writer and producer who worked on the first two seasons of Herman's Head. Fink and Sibbett divorced in January 2016. They have three children together. [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988Going to the ChapelJude
1990 Fear Newscaster
1991 The Resurrected Claire Ward
1995 It Takes Two Clarice Kensington
1998 Noah Angela
1998 Arrival II Bridget Riordan Direct-to-video (a.k.a.Second Arrival)
2002 Snow Dogs NanaVoice
2004A One Time Thing Casey Hill
2005Once Upon a Christmas
2006The Town that Banned ChristmasMadeline Bridges
2008 Legacy Mrs. WhittingtonDirect-to-video (a.k.a.Pretty Little Devils)
2016Jessica Darling's It ListMrs. Darling
2017Winter WeddingMarilyn Pierce

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King Shawna1 episode
1985Promises to KeepLibby TV movie
1986One Terrific GuyDonna CumberlandTV movie
1986 The Fall Guy Girl1 episode
1986–1987 Santa Barbara Jane WilsonRecurring, 118 episodes
1988Miracle at Beekman's PlaceAlex PetersonTV movie
1988 Valerie Melanie1 episode
1988 My Two Dads Ashley Bokowski1 episode
1988 Cheers Kim Cooperman1 episode
1989 21 Jump Street Louise1 episode
1989–1990 The Famous Teddy Z Laurie ParrMain cast
1990 Jake and the Fatman Dana Ashford1 episode
1991 Quantum Leap Diane Frost1 episode
1991–1994 Herman's Head Heddy NewmanMain cast
1992 Likely Suspects -1 episode
1994 Burke's Law Meg Harden1 episode
1994–2001 Friends Carol Willick15 episodes
1994 The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Dianna Grayson1 episode
1995 Matlock A.D.A. Katie Clark1 episode
1995 If Not for You MelanieMain cast
1996 Touched by an Angel Emily Houghton1 episode
1997 Just in Time Brenda HyattTV movie
1997 The Nanny Morgan Faulkner/Marcy Feldman1 episode
1997–1998 Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher Dr. Katherine EmersonMain cast, season 2
1999 Au Pair Vivian BergerTV movie
1999Sealed with a KissChristina EthridgeTV movie (a.k.a.First Comes Love)
1999 It's Like, You Know... Erika1 episode
2001 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Robin Davis1 episode
2002Generation GapTV movie
2002 Ally McBeal Beth Herman1 episode
2002 Once and Again Jeannine Blue2 episodes
2005 Buffalo Dreams Blaine TownsendTV movie
2006 What About Brian Tracy1 episode
2007 Out of Jimmy's Head Ms. Shank1 episode
2019A Date by Christmas EveDidi DoughertyTV movie (a.k.a.The Naughty List)
2021 List of a Lifetime Dr. Brenda Boyer Lifetime TV movie

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