Jane Sibbett

Biography

Jane Moore Sibbett is an American actress, writer, director, producer, mother, photographer, dancer, teacher, advocate and so much more! Her most notable roles are Heddy Newman on the Fox television series Herman’s Head, and Ross’ first ex-wife, the groundbreaking role of Carol Willick, who was one half of the historic, first lesbian TV wedding on the hit NBC sitcom Friends.

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 (1995), playing the jilted fiancée of her former Herman’s Head co-star Hank Azaria, and in the second season of The WB’s Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher (1997–98), 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 (1995), and the telefilm, Au Pair (1999).