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Jane Adams (born 1965) is an American actress and screenwriter. Known for her work in independent cinema, her acting credits include Light Sleeper (1992), Happiness (1998), Mumford (1999), Songcatcher (2000), The Anniversary Party (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Little Children (2006), All the Light in the Sky (2012), and She Dies Tomorrow (2020).
- Actress, writer
- April 1, 1965 (age 58), Washington, D.C., U.S.
- 1985–present
Jane Addams (born September 6, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois, U.S.—died May 21, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) was an American social reformer and pacifist, co-winner (with Nicholas Murray Butler) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. She is probably best known as a co-founder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Jane Addams: Early Life & Education. Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860 to Sarah Adams (Weber) and John Huy Adams. She was the eighth of nine children and was born with a spinal defect that hampered her early physical growth before it was rectified by surgery.
- Jane Addams and Hull House. In 1889, Addams and Starr leased the home of Charles Hull in Chicago. The two moved in and began their work of setting up Hull-House with the following mission: “to provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.”
- Jane Addams Political Life. Having quickly found that the needs of the neighborhood could not be met unless city and state laws were reformed, Addams challenged both boss rule in the immigrant neighborhood of Hull-House and indifference to the needs of the poor in the state legislature.
- Jane Addams Anti-War Views. Because Addams was convinced that war sapped the reform impulse, encouraged political repression and benefited only munitions makers, she opposed World War I. She unsuccessfully tried to persuade President Woodrow Wilson to call a conference to mediate a negotiated end to hostilities.
Learn about Jane Addams, a progressive social reformer and activist who founded Hull House, the first settlement house in the US, and led the women's peace movement. She was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her work.
Portrait of Jane Addams, from a charcoal drawing by Alice Kellogg Tyler of 1892. Source: Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114 Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author.
- Laura Jane Addams, September 6, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois, U.S.
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Jane Addams was a pioneer social worker, feminist, and internationalist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her work with the Hull-House settlement in Chicago. She was also a lecturer, author, and president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Learn about her life, achievements, and legacy from this biography.
Jane Adams (1918-2014) was an American actress who appeared in films such as Batman and Robin, House of Dracula, and The Brute Man. She also worked in radio and TV, and retired from acting after marrying Tom Turnage.
