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Jane Badler (born December 31, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Diana, the chief antagonist in NBC's science fiction TV series, V, between 1983-85. Badler also appeared in ABC's "reimagined" version of V in 2011, again playing an alien named Diana, who this time is the mother of the series' chief antagonist, Anna. In recent years, Badler has also become an established nightclub singer in Australia, where she now lives, and has released two albums.
Early life and education:
Badler spent her teen years in Great Neck, New York, moving to Manchester, New Hampshire, when she was in high school. Badler won the title Miss New Hampshire and competed at the 1973 Miss America Pageant. Subsequently, she enrolled at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, to study drama.
Film career:
Badler's first television role was Melinda Cramer Janssen on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live, which she played from 1977 to 1981 and again in 1983. During her run, she also appeared in a 1979 episode of the primetime series Fantasy Island. Badler also starred on the daytime soap opera The Doctors as Natalie Bell from 1981-82.
Badler then won her most prominent role, that of the villainous alien Diana in the 1983 NBC sci-fi miniseries V. She reprised the role in the 1984 sequel miniseries V: The Final Battle and again in V: The Series, which ran for one season from 1984 to 1985.
Following V, Badler co-starred with José Ferrer in the made-for-TV supernatural thriller Covenant. The following year she guest-starred as Meredith Braxton throughout the 1986-87 season of the CBS primetime soap opera Falcon Crest. Her other guest appearances during the 1980s included Riptide, Hotel, and Murder, She Wrote. In 1987, she played the role of Tania Winthrop in the short-lived action-adventure series The Highwayman. She then traveled to Australia to play agent Shannon Reed in the 1980s revival of Mission: Impossible, joining the series midway through its first season (replacing actress Terry Markwell, and her character of Casey Randall); then stayed with the series for its second season before it was cancelled in early 1990. After the series ended, Badler moved to Australia permanently and married businessman Stephen Hains. They have two sons, Sam and Harry. She later appeared on the Australian game show Cluedo from 1992 to 1993, and had a guest-starring role in Snowy River: The McGregor Saga in 1995.
In March 2010, Badler was cast as the villainous Diana Marshall in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She had a four-month guest contract with the show.
A remake of V premiered in late 2009, and although this version did not include the character of Diana, the series' executive producer, Scott Peters, suggested that Badler and other stars from the original version may be offered guest roles as new characters. In August 2010, it was announced that Badler would be joining the series as a new character named Diana, the mother of the Visitors' evil leader Anna (Morena Baccarin). Badler appeared in nine of the second season's ten episodes, commencing in January 2011. In the second season finale, her character was apparently killed by Anna, and ABC decided to not renew the series for a third season (although the fan campaign "Project Alice" is reported to be campaigning to Warner Bros. to renew the show on a different network).
Music and theatre career:
Already an able singer when she competed in the Miss New Hampshire and Miss America Pageants, Badler forged a career in cabaret and on the stage in the 2005 Magnormos production of archy & mehitabel, based on Don Marquis's books of poetry, Sextet, Big Hair in America, and with director Robert Chuter (who also directed two of her cabaret shows in 2000) she appeared in The Singing Forest, The Great Gatsby and her one-woman show Shakin' the Blues Away in which she also sang. Other productions in which she appeared for Magnormos included a concert of the musical Rebecca and OzMade Musicals.
Badler released her debut album (backed by the Melbourne-based band Sir) on June 1, 2008. Titled The Devil Has My Double, it is an autobiographical album which has been described as "a compulsive mix of fame, sex and solitude, set to a sweeping soundtrack of cold soul and passionate synthetics." As part of promotion for the album, she gave an extensive interview about her work to the Boxcutters podcast.
Badler released her second album, Tears Again, in 2011 and is currently working on her next studio album.
Filmography:
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1977-1983
One Life to Live
Melinda Cramer Janssen #2
Unknown episodes
1979
Fantasy Island
Kim
Episode: "The Victim/The Mermaid"
1981-1982
The Doctors
Natalie Bell #2
Unknown episodes
1981
Terror Among Us
Pam
Television film
1983
The First Time
Karen Watson
1983
V
Diana
2 episodes
1983
Mr. Smith
Uncredited
Episode: "Mr. Smith Plays Cyrano"
1984
V (The Final Battle)
Diana
3 episodes
1984
Brothers
Phyllis
Episode: "Mindless Passion"
1984-1985
V: The Series
Diana
19 episodes
1985
Covenant
Dana Noble
Television film
1985
Hotel
Angie Archer
1 episode
1986
Blacke's Magic
Elisa Leigh
Episode: "Celebrations"
1986
Riptide
Janet Ingram
Episode: "Smiles We Left Behind"
1986
The Penalty Phase
Katie Pinter
Television film
1986-1987
Falcon Crest
Meredith Braxton
22 episodes
1987
Jake and the Fatman
Shelly
Episode: "Happy Days Are Here Again"
1987-1988
The Highwayman
Tania Winthrop
10 episodes
1988
Murder, She Wrote
Carolyn Hazlitt
Episode: "Curse of the Daanay"
1989
Easy Kill
Jade Anderson
1989
Fine Gold
Julia
1989
Autumn Rain
Lucia
1989-1990
Mission: Impossible
Shannon Reed
24 episodes
1990
Black Snow
Shelby Collins
1992
Cluedo
Mrs. Elizabeth Peacock
20 episodes
1992
Embassy
Jacqueline Kowalski
Episode: "Nice Guys Finish Last"
1994
Sky Trackers
Coral Lee Pierce
Episode: "Star Time"
1995
Under the Gun
Sandy Torrence
1995
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga
Yvonne Waugh
2 episodes
1997
Flipper
Unknown
Episode: "Help Me, Rhonda"
1999
Crash Zone
Elanor Renfrey
Episode: "No News Is Good News"
2011
Like Mother Like Son
Mrs. Fox
Television film
2002
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Dame Alice Kyteler
Episode: "A Witch's Calling"
2002
Blue Heelers
Kath Shepherd
Episode: "Sins of the Father"
2010
Neighbours
Diana Marshall
24 episodes
2010
Needle
Professor Banyon
2011
V
Diana
9 episodes
2011
Spicks and Specks
Herself
Episode: "#7.6"
2011
Offspring
Wendy
3 episodes
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