Jane Adams

Jane Adams

1965-04-01 Washington, D.C., USA 53 Credits

Biography

Jane Adams is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of I Hate Hamlet in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls. Her film roles include Happiness (1998), Wonder Boys (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Little Children (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress...

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Year of the Fox

Year of the Fox

2023

as Paulene

6.5
Acting

A 17-year-old Ivy, who was adopted as an infant into a wealthy and notable Aspen family, is navigating the fallout of her parents’ bitter divorce.

Sick

Sick

2022

as Pamela

6.2
Acting

While quarantining at her family's lake house during the pandemic, Parker and her best friend are threatened by an unexpected visitor.

Dog

Dog

2022

as Tamara

7.3
Acting

An army ranger and his dog embark on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway to attend a friend's funeral.

Build the Wall

Build the Wall

2020

as Sarah

3.5
Acting

Kent is turning 50. He's not thrilled about it. His plans for a fun weekend with Sarah are upended when his friend Kev unexpectedly arrives to build h...

Build the Wall

Build the Wall

2020

Screenplay

3.5
Writing

Kent is turning 50. He's not thrilled about it. His plans for a fun weekend with Sarah are upended when his friend Kev unexpectedly arrives to build h...

She Dies Tomorrow

She Dies Tomorrow

2020

as Jane

5.1
Acting

Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane disco...

Intervene

Intervene

2018

as Gwendolyn

Acting

INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.

Brigsby Bear

Brigsby Bear

2017

as April Mitchum

7.1
Acting

Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and...

Always Shine

Always Shine

2016

as Summer

5.3
Acting

On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated re...

Digging for Fire

Digging for Fire

2015

as Woman on Beach

5.1
Acting

Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and ...

Poltergeist

Poltergeist

2015

as Dr. Claire Powell

5.2
Acting

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the famil...

All the Light in the Sky

All the Light in the Sky

2013

as Marie

5.3
Acting

An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.

All the Light in the Sky

All the Light in the Sky

2013

Writer

5.3
Writing

An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house.

Stray Bullets

Stray Bullets

2012

7.0
Acting

A short film by Joe Swanberg included on the DVD of Silver Bullets. "footage from the first month of shooting a film that became Silver Bullets "sev...

The Lie

The Lie

2011

as Dr. Bentel

5.1
Acting

A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.

Silver Bullets

Silver Bullets

2011

as June

4.3
Acting

An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.

Restless

Restless

2011

as Mabel Tell

6.5
Acting

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

Calvin Marshall

Calvin Marshall

2009

as June Marshall

5.2
Acting

A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.

Alexander the Last

Alexander the Last

2009

as Director

4.7
Acting

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

Alexander the Last

Alexander the Last

2009

Additional Writing

4.7

An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.

The Wackness

The Wackness

2008

as Eleanor

6.4
Acting

Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions wit...

Lifelines

Lifelines

2008

as Nancy Bernstein

4.0
Acting

Mom Nancy, a schoolteacher, is unable to handle the constant barrage of hostility from her three children. Husband Ira is ineffectual in helping his w...

The Brave One

The Brave One

2007

as Nicole

6.6
Acting

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Little Children

Little Children

2006

as Sheila

7.1
Acting

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to ...

The Sensation of Sight

The Sensation of Sight

2006

as Alice

7.0
Acting

An English teacher sells encyclopedias while searching for the meaning of life.

Last Holiday

Last Holiday

2006

as Rochelle

7.2
Acting

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an...

Stone Cold

Stone Cold

2005

as Brianna Lincoln

6.8
Acting

Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishin...

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004

as White-Faced Women

6.8
Acting

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and se...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

as Carrie

8.1
Acting

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his me...

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self (uncredited)

6.3
Acting

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Orange County

Orange County

2002

as Mona

6.0
Acting

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional famil...

The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party

2001

as Clair Forsyth

5.7
Acting

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, American actress Sally Nash and British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close fr...

Songcatcher

Songcatcher

2001

as Eleanor 'Elna' Penleric

6.2
Acting

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who...

Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

2000

as Oola

6.8
Acting

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago....

From Where I Sit

2000

as Ruth

Acting

High school sex education teacher Sharon and her husband, overwhelmed family man Bob humorously deal with life's ups and downs in suburban Boston.

Mumford

Mumford

1999

as Dr. Phyllis Sheeler

6.5
Acting

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarm...

A Fish in the Bathtub

A Fish in the Bathtub

1999

as Ruthie

6.6
Acting

A forty-year marriage begins to unravel when the husband brings home a pet fish that he wants to keep in the bathtub.

A Texas Funeral

A Texas Funeral

1999

as Mary Joan

5.0
Acting

It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta. But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to im...

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

1999

as Self (archive footage)

6.9
Acting

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by...

You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail

1998

as Sydney Anne (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware...

Happiness

Happiness

1998

as Joy Jordan

7.5
Acting

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might fin...

Day at the Beach

Day at the Beach

1998

as Marie

Acting

An easygoing, darkly funny film about three friends frunning afoul of the mob, a young woman's escape from her overbearing father, the triumph of youn...

Music from Another Room

Music from Another Room

1998

as Irene Swan

5.8
Acting

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl h...

Kansas City

Kansas City

1996

as Nettie Bolt

6.2
Acting

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

Father of the Bride Part II

Father of the Bride Part II

1995

as Dr. Megan Eisenberg

6.2
Acting

Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too...

Notes For My Daughter

1995

as Michelle

Acting

A teen girl struggles to deal with her mother's breast cancer.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

1994

as Ruth Hale

5.8
Acting

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble

1994

as Evans

5.5
Acting

Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.

Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

1992

as Randi Jost

6.7
Acting

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from t...

Rising Son

Rising Son

1990

as Meg Bradley

5.9
Acting

Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. When his factory shuts down, Gus faces unemployment...

Vital Signs

Vital Signs

1990

as Suzanne Maloney

4.9
Acting

As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...

Taking A Stand

Taking A Stand

1989

as Elly Robinson

Acting

Neighborhood starts examining their feelings of racism when one of the neighbors is caught vandalizing the home of a black family, and people start ta...

Bombs Away

1985

as Greeting Girl

3.5
Acting

A cab driver becomes involved in a chase for a misplaced atomic bomb.