Curtin is also well known for her role in the Conehead sketches as "Prymaat Conehead" (mother of the Conehead family), and as "Enid Loopner" (in sketches with Gilda Radner and Bill Murray).
Curtin starred with Fred Savage in the ABCsitcomCrumbs, which debuted in January 2006 and was cancelled in May of that year.
Comic actorJaneCurtin is a veteran of two very successful television series.
Curtin was nominated for two Emmy awards for her work on SNL before she left the show in 1980.
Curtin appeared in a number of movies, both for the big screen and for television, during and after Kate and Allie, and tried another series that was not successful (Working it Out, 1990).
Curtin back in 'Crumbs' (external) Crumbs dispenses with all pretense of political correctness or even decorum literally in its first seconds.
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JaneCurtin dropped out of college to pursue comedy, joining the troupe The Proposition in 1968, and performing with them until 1972.
Curtin was an original Not Ready For Prime Time Player on Saturday Night Live, often as the straight-woman, playing prim characters driven to frustration by John Belushi or Chevy Chase.
Curtin's uncle, Joseph Curtin, was a big star in radio dramas, and played Nick Charles in The Thin Man on radio.
It all started when 27 year old JaneCurtin auditioned for a comedy variety show.
Jane managed to have Tess inbetween her new show with Susan Saint James, Kate & Allie.
Working it Out was a short-lived series that followed the courtship of Sarah and David, a pair of NYC singles who hit it off while taking a cooking class.
Her background in improvisational comedy (four years with The Proposition group) prepared JaneCurtin for the greatest job of her life, a five-year (1975-80) stint as one of the original members of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players of the hit NBC late-night series "Saturday Night Live".
During her tenure on that show, she received critical acclaim and two Emmy nominations for her creation of memorable roles, including the snide anchor of "Weekend Update" and the matriarch of the Conehead family.
Curtin made her feature debut in "How to Beat the High Cost of Living" (1980), a caper comedy which teamed her with future sitcom partner Susan Saint James, and achieved her highest film profile reprising...
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Curtin made her feature debut in "How to Beat the High Cost of Living" (1980), a caper comedy which teamed her with future sitcom partner Susan Saint James, and achieved her highest film profile reprising her SNL role as Prymaat Conehead in "Coneheads" (1993).
Although she missed with the series "Working It Out" (NBC, 1990), Curtin delivered impressive TV portrayals as Alice McGoff in the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries "Common Ground" (1990), about the desegregation of Boston schools in the 1970s, and as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Family Channel movie "Tad" (1995).
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