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Jane Wagner

Writer, Producer, Director, Additional CreditsBorn June 26, 1935 (90 years)
Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935), one of America’s most distinguished playwrights, has won numerous awards, including: several Emmys for writing and producing and a Writer’s Guild Award for her work in television. Wagner has also won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Award and a New York Drama Desk Award for her Broadway success, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; three Grammy nominations for comedy albums she wrote with Lily Tomlin, Modern Scream, And That's the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards--the first for the CBS television special, J.T., and the second for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël.

Known For

  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman
  • Moment by Moment
  • An Apology to Elephants
  • Saturday Night Live
  • The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
  • Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
  • Kingdom in the Clouds

Jane Wagner Filmography

2018
Radium Girls · as Executive Producer
2013
An Apology to Elephants · as Executive Producer
1996
1994
Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home · as Executive Producer
1991
1981
Lily: Sold Out · as Executive Producer
1981
The Incredible Shrinking Woman · as Executive Producer
1976
Standing Room Only (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1973

2024
1986
Lily Tomlin · as Herself

1976

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