All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

Congress headed by Newt Gingrich unsuccessfully strove to shut it down. The show's frank portrayal of "senior" sexuality and explicit sex scenes generated controversy although it won a rare endorsement by the AARP. Kramer (1979) and Testament (1983) all of which earned her Oscar nods Brubaker (1980) The Cider House Rules (1999) and Fur (2006) in which Jane Alexander played Gertrude Nemerov mother of Diane Arbus played in the film by Nicole Kidman.

Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen Alexander has played an array of roles in theater film and television and has committed herself to a variety of charitable causes.