Jane Sibbett

Jane Moore Sibbett is an American actress and comedian. Her most notable roles include Heddy Newman on the Fox television series Herman's Head and Carol Willick on the television series Friends.

Early life[]

Sibbett was born in Berkeley, California, the youngest of five children. She was raised on Alameda Island, in the San Francisco Bay.^[1] She is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she became a member of the California Delta chapter of Pi Beta Phi, an international women's fraternity.^[2]

Career[]

Sibbett started her acting career as Jane Wilson on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1986-87, for which she was nominated for a Best Newcomer Soap Opera Digest Awards.^[3] In 1989, she won the role of Laurie Parr on the CBS comedy The Famous Teddy Z, co-starring with Jon Cryer and Alex Rocco. The series lasted one season. In 1991, Sibbett was cast as status-conscious bombshell Heddy Newman on the Fox sitcom Herman's Head,^[4] which quickly gained a cult following on the young broadcast network and lasted three seasons. Beginning in 1994, she played the occasional role of Carol Willick on Friends, a part-time stint that lasted until the end of the show's seventh season in 2001. During her Friends association, Sibbett had regular roles on the short-lived CBS sitcom If Not for You (1995), playing the jilted fiancée of her former Herman's Head co-star Hank Azaria, and in the second season of The WB's Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1997–98), playing school headmaster Dr. Katherine Emerson.

Sibbett has appeared in more than 200 episodes of multiple TV series, including 21 Jump Street and The Nanny. She starred in the 1998 movie Noah alongside Tony Danza and Wallace Shawn as well as in 1998's The Second Arrival, alongside Patrick Muldoon and Michael Sarrazin. She appeared in Dan O'Bannon's 1992 film The Resurrected. She co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in It Takes Two (1995),^[5][6] and the telefilm, Au Pair (1999).^[7][8]

Sibbett co-produced four documentaries on Braco, a Croatian faith healer, with her company, Wild Aloha Studios, in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The latest, Evolution, was released on August 30, 2013.

Sibbett had been directing theater in Hawaii, with two sold out years of One Billion Rising and Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues at The Kahilu Theatre on Hawaii Island. Sibbett's new play, SHE'ISLAND, co-written by the women of Hawaii Island opened in April 2016, also at the Kahilu Theatre.

Since returning to the mainland she has costarred in the movies Jessica Darling's It List (2016), Winter Wedding (2017), A Date By Christmas Eve (2019), the pilot Manopause (2020) and the soon to be released film Breast Cancer Bucket List (2021) directed by indie darling director Roxy Shih.^[9]

Philanthropy[]

Sibbett has long been an advocate for survivors of domestic violence. Her focus for support is with the 9 shelters of 1736 Family Crisis Center in Los Angeles.^[10]

Personal life[]

In 1992, Sibbett married Karl Fink, a TV writer and producer who worked on the first two seasons of Herman's Head. Fink and Sibbett divorced in January 2016. They have three children, Ruby (b. 1992), Kai (b. 1994), and Violet (b. 2000).^[11]

Filmography[]

References[]

External links[]

• Jane Sibbett at IMDb
• janesibbett.com