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
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 feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
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.
I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.
I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.
As an actor and artist, it's much better to do things because... you're interested in saying something and because you enjoy the creative process.
Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.
Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.
For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.
I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.
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.
Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.