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 as Ross Geller's first former wife, Carol Willick, on the NBC sitcom 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. 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.

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. 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, 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, playing the jilted fiancée of her former Herman's Head co-star Hank Azaria, and in the second season of The WB's , 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, and the telefilm, Au Pair.
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 has 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.

Philanthropy

Sibbett has long been an advocate for survivors of domestic violence. She runs the 1736 Family Crisis Center in Los Angeles.

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, Kai, and Violet.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1985Scarecrow and Mrs. KingShawna1 episode
1986The Fall GuyGirl1 episode
1987Santa BarbaraJane Wilson50 episodes
1988ValerieMelanie1 episode
1988My Two DadsAshley Bokowski1 episode
1988CheersKim Cooperman1 episode
198921 Jump StreetLouise1 episode
1989–1990The Famous Teddy ZLaurie Parr20 episodes
1990Jake and the FatmanDana Ashford1 episode
1991Quantum LeapDiane Frost1 episode
1991'Holographic dance partner1 episode, Data's Day
1992Likely Suspects-1 episode
1994Burke's Law Meg Harden1 episode
1991–1994Herman's HeadHeddy Newman72 episodes
1991–1994The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.Dianna Grayson1 episode
1995MatlockA.D.A. Katie Clark1 episode
1995If Not for YouMelanie7 episodes
1996Touched by an AngelEmily Houghton1 episode
1997The NannyMorgan Faulkner/Marcy Feldman1 episode
1997–1998'Dr. Katherine Emerson21 episodes
1999It's Like, You Know...Erika1 episode
1994–2001FriendsCarol Willick15 episodes
2001Sabrina, the Teenage WitchRobin Davis1 episode
2002Ally McBealBeth Herman1 episode
2002Once and AgainJeannine Blue2 episodes
2006What About BrianTracy1 episode
2007Out of Jimmy's HeadMs. Shank1 episode