Jane Mancini
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| Portrayed by | Josie Bissett | ||||||||||
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| First appearance |
Melrose Place: July 8, 1992 (episode 1.01: "Pilot") |
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| Last appearance |
Melrose Place (2009): March 30, 2010 (episode 1.16: "Santa Fe") |
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| Created by | Darren Star | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | Fashion Designer (Former) Landlord |
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| Parents | George Andrews (adopted father) Katherine Andrews (adopted mother) Sherry Doucette (biological mother) |
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| Siblings | Sydney Andrews |
| Spouse |
Michael Mancini (divorced) Kyle McBride (status unknown) |
| Children | unnamed daughter with Michael |
| Nieces | Violet Foster |
Jane Andrews (previously Mancini, McBride and again Mancini), played by Josie Bissett, is a fictional character from the 1990s prime time soap opera Melrose Place and the 2009 series of the same name.
When the series starts, she is married to Dr. Michael Mancini and works in a clothing boutique on Melrose Ave. In Los Angeles, Jane and Michael serve as the apartment building's superintendents as well as having separate careers. A major plot point for Jane and Michael in the first season is their inability to find time to be together and manage their busy work schedules.
At the end of the season one, Jane and Michael's once happy relationship begins to crumble when Michael cheats on Jane with fellow doctor Kimberly Shaw. Jane then divorces Michael. Jane's younger sister Sydney Andrews moves into her apartment and begins to have an affair with Michael behind Jane's back. After Sydney blackmails Michael into marrying her, Jane begins dating Robert Wilson. Jane breaks up with Robert after he sleeps with a prostitute that Michael and Sydney set him up with as part of a deal.
After Robert, Jane starts dating Australian businessman Chris Marchette. Chris turns out to be a con artist, and embezzles money from Jane's design business. Chris wants to marry Jane for her money, while also becoming obsessed with Sydney, wanting to use her as his concubine. Michael eventually rescues Jane from Chris after he finds about Chris' true intentions.
Jane eventually becomes business partners with Richard Hart, and later becomes engaged to him. However, Jo Reynolds revealed to Richard that Jane did not truly love him, and Richard begins seeing Jo instead. This causes a rift in Jane and Jo's friendship. Jane then starts dating Jake Hanson, but ends the relationship after Richard rapes her. Planning revenge, Jane teams up with Sydney in conspiring to murder Richard, but it does not go as planned. Richard is then later killed by the police.
Shortly after being robbed at gunpoint several episodes later, Jane leaves Melrose Place and moves back to her hometown of Chicago. She eventually moves back to L.A. for the final season of the show. Jane and Michael rekindle their relationship, and they marry each other for a second time. However, his old ways eventually caused her to leave him again. It is also revealed that she cheated on him the night before her first wedding to him. After divorcing Michael again, she starts a relationship with Kyle. She later finds out that she is pregnant with Michael's baby. Although Kyle knows the baby is not his, he agrees to raise the baby with her. In the series finale, Jane and Kyle are still together, and they find out they are having a girl.
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