Meet Jane Mandel, wife of actor Frankie Faison. Frankie is starring in ABC’s The Rookie which is set to premiere on 24 April 2022. In the show, he portrayed Christopher “Cutty” Clark, who was falsely imprisoned in the 1980s according to a Deadline.
Learn more about Frankie’s long-time wife her job, her age, and her net worth and career below in this article.
Meet Jane Mandel, Frankie Faison Wife
Actor Frankie Faison is married to his wife Jane Mandel. According to IMDB, they tied the knots on 26 December 1988. And in 33 years of marriage, they have been each other’s support in all aspects, personal and professional. Jane and Frankie witnessed each other’s growth.
Only a few times, they have made public appearances and interviewed together. Jane and Frankie sat down with Assemblyman John McKeon in the second episode of NJ Today. In the show, Frankie admired Jane for being able to “blossom” and “find her own light”. He added that Jane is a worker and they don’t get the praise usually because her work is behind the camera.
Frankie and Jane have worked together on several plays including Reparation directed by Jane who is the artistic director of Luna.
Frankie Faison was born on 10 June 1949 in Newport News, Virginia, USA. He has built a career in theatre and TV that spanned over 40 years. He was nominated for Broadway’s 1987 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for August Wilson’s “Fences.”
How Many Kids Do Frankie Faison And His Wife Jane Mandel Have?
Frankie Faison and Jane Madel are parents to three children. They have three daughters; Blake, Amanda, and Rachel.
According to Blake’s Facebook, she hailed from Córdoba, Spain, and lives in Madrid, Spain. She is working as an English teacher in Greater Madrid.
According to her LinkedIn bio, she is the creator of a successful online/face-to-face teaching program based on videos. She has over 15 years of experience teaching English. In addition, “she is also a Bikram Yoga teacher. She loves to travel with her husband and two young children, listen to music, dance, do origami, and be outside.”
Blake organized a fundraiser on GoFundMe for her young son Gael who suffered from autism and epilepsy. She also started an IG account (@aheartaday1000) where she sews 1 felt heart and posts pictures of it on a daily basis. Out of the goal of thousand hearts, she has made and posted 677 hearts.
Jane and Blake have also appeared on her YouTube channel together for a video. They sang a folk song titled “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.” Both Jane and Blake learned that song from Jane’s father Joe who was in the Navy and was also an amateur photographer and filmmaker.
Find Blake on Instagram (@lemondifficult) and Facebook (@blake.faison).
Blake’s sister is Amanda Faison who is currently living in Montclair, New Jersey. Amanda works at Newark Public Schools. She is also on Facebook (@amanda.faison). And, Jane’s third daughter is Rachel Faison. Rachel completed high school at Montclair High School and graduated from Bard College in 2007.
She is currently living in Brooklyn, New York.
Jane Mandel Age
As of 2022, Jane Madel is 75 years old. She celebrates her birthday on 9 April.
Jane Mandel Net Worth
Jane Madel sits on a net worth above $700 thousand.
She loved performing as an actor but became the artistic director.
As a child, Jane flew into the stage as a flying monkey in a Virginia version of “The Wizard of Oz.” Because her father was in the Navy, she spent her childhood moving around the country — in the South, the West, even in a trailer for a few years — but she was always on stage. “You couldn’t stop me,” she says. “It was an obsession.”
Jane went on to study English and theater at the University at Albany, SUNY and went on to NYU, where she had an assistantship to teach theater games and then taught after graduating.
She had recently completed her M.F.A. in theater at New York University, where she had studied acting and directing. Jane remained on the line for an open call all day, as she had done for months until her name was eventually called. A director slapped her headshot facedown on the table, unconcerned.
Jane ripped it up, tossed it in the trash, and walked away. It was her last chance to perform. “It dawned on me that you have the power to create your own work,” she told NJ.com. “You don’t have to fit somebody else’s mold.” And she hasn’t.
In 1992, Jane founded Luna Stage which became a professional theatre in 1995. For its first 18 years, the company made its home in Montclair, New Jersey, first in a small space on Walnut Street and then in a larger facility on Bloomfield Avenue.
The mission of Luna Stage is to produce thought-provoking theatre that gives voice to emerging American playwrights and re-examines contemporary and classic plays that speak to our times.
Originally based in Montclair and now housed in West Orange, the company is integral to the state theater scene.
Jane has taught at NYU School of the Arts, The New School for Social Research, The Whole Theatre, and Montclair State University. She developed and directed Luna’s first production In the Name of the Woman and the critically acclaimed “We don’t have enough sugar for the public” and was the director of the new comedy Rosa Loses her Face in 1997 Reckless in 1996.
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Where Is Jane Mandel From?
Jane Madel hailed from Key West, Florida. She also lived in Montclair and West Orange in New Jersey. According to FB, she currently lives in Taghkanic, New York. Her father passed away a while back and her mom Anette was 94 years old in 2014.
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Is Jane Mandel On Instagram?
Jane Mandel is not on Instagram but on Facebook (@jane.mandel.9).
