Jane Elliot (born January 17, 1947) is an American actress, best known for her role as Tracy Quartermaine in the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Early years
The daughter of an attorney, Elliot was born in New York City.
Career
When Elliot was 17 and in London on a Summer Abroad program she won a "major role" in a production of Come Back, Little Sheba on British television. Her first stint included a scene which underscored Tracy's ruthlessness, where Tracy withholds her father's heart medication when he appears to be suffering a heart attack. Elliot left in 1980 and won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role in 1981. The same year, she landed the recurring role of Judy Trent on the prime time CBS series Knots Landing.
From 1981 to 1982, Elliot appeared on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Carrie Todd, a character who was involved with Ross Marler; Ross learns that Carrie is a murderer and has a split personality. Elliot considers her time as Carrie as one of her favorite roles, saying "the most was asked of me when I was doing that role."
From 1984 to 1986 she played Cynthia Chandler Preston Cortlandt on All My Children. Cynthia seduced wealthy, older Palmer Cortlandt, broke up Palmer and Daisy's marriage and married Palmer, while sleeping with Ross Chandler.
In 1986 producer Gail Kobe contacted Elliot, to offer her the role of Stephanie Douglas Forrester on the newly created CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Elliot accepted the role, but on Christmas Eve 1986, Kobe called Elliot to tell her that Susan Flannery was returning to daytime as Stephanie, and creator Bill Bell had given Flannery the part instead. In 2014, she was nominated for another Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, 33 years after her win and 21 years since her last nomination. Elliot announced her retirement in March 2017.
In November 2019, it was announced that she would be returning to General Hospital in December 2019.
She has made several short-term appearances since; the character of Tracy's appearances have primarily been written as holiday visits.
Theater
On Broadway Elliot portrayed Linda Kingsley in The Impossible Years (1965), a role that resulted from her performance in the Bucks County Playhouse's production of Hay Fever.