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Atkinson was born on 18 February 1959 in Bournemouth, England. Her family moved to the United States in 1968 when she was 9 years old. She grew up in North Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated from Pine Crest School, where she was elected Homecoming Queen in 1977.
Jayne Atkinson was born on 18 February 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001). She has been married to Michel Gill since 3 October 1998. They have one child. She was previously married to Joe Urla.
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Jayne Atkinson was born on February 18, 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001). She has been married to Michel Gill since October 3, 1998.
- February 18, 1959
Jayne Atkinson (born February 18, 1959) is an English-born American film, theatre and television actress. She is perhaps best known for the role of Karen Hayes on 24 as well as her Tony Award-nominated roles in The Rainmaker and Enchanted April.
- She Was Born in England
- She Began Her Career on Stage
- She’S A Multi-Award Winner
- She’S appeared with Her Husband on House of Cards
- Her Film Debut Was on Free Willy
- Politics, Espionage, and Crime Are Her Stock Trade
- She’S Active in Charitable Causes
- She’S Starring in A One-Woman Play
- She’S One of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Biggest Inspirations
- She Doesn’T Chase The Limelight
Atkinson may have spent most of her life in the States, but she was actually born in Dorset, England. The actress spent the first 9 years of her life in the UK until her family upped sticks to move to the US, where they eventually settled in North Miami Beach, Florida. Atkinson spent her youth at Pine Crest School, where she proved popular enough w...
After performing intermittently in regional theatre during her time at Yale University, Atkinson got her first break as a professional when she landed a part in the off-Broadway production of Bloody Poetry in the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987. That same year, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Her performance ...
Atkinson earned her first award (a Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play) in 1996. Since then, she’s swept the board at most major awards ceremonies, both in recognition of her outstanding stage work and equally well-received television and film performances. To date, she’s racked up a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1999 pro...
In 1989, Atkinson met her now-husband, the actor Michael Gill, on the set of a production of The Heiress at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut. Years later, they’d get their chance to act alongside each other again on the House of Cards, on which Gill played President Garrett Walker and Atkinson played Secretary of State Catherine Dur...
After several years of concentrating largely on her stage work (with a few pieces for TV thrown in for good measure), Atkinson made her film debut as Annie Greenwood in 1993s Free Willy. She reprised the role again in 1995 in Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, and has since gone on to enjoy roles in Our Town (2003), The Village (2004), Syriana (2005...
Outside of the theatre, Atkinson is best known for her TV work, where she seems to have made a habit of choosing roles in shows centered on the murky worlds of politics, espionage, and crime. In 2002, for example, she played the character of Dr. Claire Snyder in an episode of Law and Order. Between 2006 and 2007, she played Karen Hayes in 30 episod...
As well as supporting the educational theater company, Fringe Benefits, and the international medical assistance foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Atkinson is active in Running Start, a nonprofit run by Susannah Welford that offers a mentorship program to young women looking to run for office. “I think in the media, in television and in movies, ...
It takes a very special kind of actress to have the stage presence and charisma to carry off a one-person play, but Atkinson is clearly just such an actress. Since summer, she’s been hard at work giving life to the late Texas governor, Anne Richards, in the one-woman production of “Anne”. As Atkinson is used to playing fictionalized characters, dep...
When Julia Louis-Dreyfus (then a student of Northwestern) saw Atkinson perform the “quality of mercy is not strained” monologue as Portia in The Merchant of Venice, she was so blown away she still remembers it to this day. When the Seinfeld star accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last fall, she followed her speech by performing the sa...
Despite having enjoyed amazing critical acclaim throughout the course of her career and appeared on some of the biggest TV shows of the past few years, Atkinson is still far from being a household name… and that’s exactly the way she likes it. “It takes a lot to be a Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to be constantly in the limelight. It’s enough what I have,” ...
Jayne Atkinson is an American actress with a long and successful career on stage, television, and film. Born on February 18, 1959, in Binghamton, New York, Atkinson grew up in a family of ...
Jayne Atkinson was born on 18 February 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001).
