Jane Krakowski gracefully made the transition from child performer to adult TV star. A gifted singer and dancer, she began studying at age three and was influenced by her parents who were active in community theater in New Jersey. After being cast in an industrial fashion show, her career picked up. With her curly blonde hair, heart-shaped face and deep (with a slight catch) voice, the attractive thespian moved to the big screen as Cousin Vicki in the amusing if low-brow "National Lampoon's Vacation" and co-starred with Kevin Dillon in the indie "No Big Deal" (both 1983). Her subsequent screen outings have been sporadic and in material that was inferior (e.g., "Stepping Out" 1991).
Krakowski found more success as a soap star and Broadway hoofer. For two years (1984-86), she appeared as the troubled teen T.R. Kendall on NBC's "Search for Tomorrow", for which she earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. On stage, she unsuccessfully auditioned for a role in the Tommy Tune-directed "Nine" (1982) but landed the key role of Dinah the Dining Car in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Starlight Express" (1987). She was one of only four performers to remain with the difficult show (which required singing and dancing on roller skates) for its entire two-year run. When casting the musical "Grand Hotel", Tune remembered the petite singer-dancer and cast her as the secretary Flaemchen (the role played by Joan Crawford in the 1932 film). Krakowski nightly stopped the show with her rendition of "I Want to Go to Hollywood" and earned a supporting actress nomination for both Drama Desk and Tony awards. She has also had featured roles in the Broadway revivals of "Company" (1995) and "Once Upon a Mattress" (1996). But it took her role as the office busybody Elaine Vassal on Fox's "Ally McBeal" (1997- ) for her to reach a wider audience. Krakowski managed to walk the fine line between being annoying and vulnerable as the meddlesome secretary.
After "Ally McBeal" wrapped in 2002, Krakowski signed on to the comedy "Marci X," a film starring Lisa Kudrow and Damon Wayans about a Jewish-American Princess character who takes over a rap label and comes up against a spoiled and disprespecful hip-hop star. She then went on to a triumphant stint on Broadway, winning the 2003 Tony Award for her stunning and sultry portrayal of Carla in the musical "Nine", opposite Antonio Banderas. Her scintallating performance also earned her the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critic's Award.
She appeared as one of the string of conquests in the life of Jude Law's womanizing character in the 2004 remake of "Alfie," and got to sing and dance on screen as the beguiling Ghost of Christmas Past in the NBC musical telepic version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (2004) opposite Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge. Then she turned a strong, sly performance as an ambitious local TV journalist searching for scandal who gets caught up in the schemes of a manipulative private school girl (Evan Rachel Wood) in the dark indie comedy "Pretty Persuasion" (2005).
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