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Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedian, from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds an associate degree from Elizabeth Seton Junior College in New York City. Curtin lives in Connecticut with her husband, Patrick Lynch. The couple have one daughter, Tess Lynch. She has served as a U.S. Committee National Ambassador for UNICEF.

In 1968, Curtin decided to pursue comedy as a career and dropped out of college. She joined a comedy group, "The Proposition", and performed with them until 1972. She starred in Pretzels, an off-Broadway play written by Curtin and Fred Grandy, in 1974.

One of the original "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" for NBC's Saturday Night Live
(1975), Curtin remained on the show through the 1979-1980 season. A practicing Catholic, she did not participate in SNL's notorious backstage party scene.

Saturday Night Live

Jane Curtin is famous as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live (SNL). On this show, she often played straight-woman characters seemingly driven to frustration by the antics of her wackier castmates including John Belushi and Chevy Chase. She is particularly well known for her role in the Conehead sketches as "Prymaat Conehead" (mother of the Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with Gilda Radner and Bill Murray). Curtin anchored SNL's "Weekend Update" segment in 1976-77, and was paired with Dan Aykroyd in 1977-78 and Bill Murray in 1978-80. In a parody of the 1970's news program 60 Minutes, Curtin portrayed the liberal viewpoint vs. right-wing conservative Dan Aykroyd.

Later television career

Unlike many of her SNL cast members who ventured often successfully into film, Curtin chose to stay in television and has been remarkably successful there. Her film appearances have been sporadic. To date, she has starred in two long-running television sitcoms. First, in Kate & Allie, with Susan Saint James (1984-89), she played a single mother named "Allie Lowell". She received two Emmys for her performance. She later joined the cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001) playing a human, "Dr. Mary Albright," opposite the alien family, composed of John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Curtin stars with Fred Savage in the ABC sitcom Crumbs, which debuted in January 2006.

In 1993, Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd were reunited in Coneheads, a full length motion picture based on their popular SNL characters.

Curtin has a cousin in the industry, actress and writer, Valerie Curtin.

Filmography

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
(1979)
How to Beat the High Co$t of Living
(1980)
O.C. and Stiggs
(1987)
Coneheads (1993)
Antz
(1998) (voice)
Geraldine's Fortune (2004)
Brooklyn Lobster (2005)

Upcoming:

The Shaggy Dog (2006)

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Actors - Jane Curtin

Saturday Night Live

Later television career

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