Jane Badler
Jane Badler
Jane Badleris 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 and 1985. 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 three...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth31 December 1953
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.
I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
I have no regrets about my life.
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.
I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.
Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.
I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.
I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.