Born in 1914 in St. Joseph, Missouri, usa, his original name was Sarah Jane Fox. His father was mayor of St. Joseph's, and after his father's death the family moved to Los Angeles. In order to live, she worked as a waitress in a café. Later, she changed to a dancer and went to perform in various places, and when she returned to Los Angeles, she was running into Warner Bros. to shoot the song and dance film "Children from Spain", and to recruit a group of actors, Jane Wyman was hired, which was her first step toward Hollywood.
In 1936, she teamed up with the big star Dick Powell to co-produce "Thirty-Seven Years of Dancing It", and she played a playful and difficult song and dance girl, which was successful. In 1945, Jane Wyman showed her personal acting skills as the hero and lover of an alcohol-poisoned writer in the A-grade psychological film Lost Weekend. The film has not yet been released, and Hollywood has received rave reviews. Jane Wyman took another big step toward her goal. In 1946, she brilliantly played the mother of a naïve child in "Deer Garden Changchun", and was first nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress.
In 948, she won the 21st Academy Awards for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for "Tears of the Heart". In 1951 and 1954, she was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress twice for "The Blue Veil" and "The Land Is Desolate". In 1984, she also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in the Television Category for "Eagle Crown Manor". Other main ones are "Double Sisters Competing for Favors", "Li Ri Spring Supper", "Little Lucky Star", "Water and Fire Mandarin Duck" and so on.
For a long time, her name was always associated with U.S. President Ronald Reagan because they had been husband and wife. Jane Wyman met Reagan while at Warner Bros., and the two collaborated for the first time in the film Brothers of the Thief, playing a man and woman who fell in love. Since then, the two sides have developed from good feelings to admiration. During World War II, Reagan spent more time on social activities due to the reduction of filmmaking, but Jane Wyman's masterpieces were so good that people later called Reagan "Mr. Wyman". The seeds of the two's final divorce were planted at this time. After the breakup, Reagan married another Hollywood actor, Nancy Davis, which has remained so far. Jane Wyman was not satisfied, and married several men and divorced them.
In the sixties and seventies, Reagan was the governor of California twice, and Jane Wyman was as silent as possible, never speaking publicly about her ex-husband. In 1980, during Reagan's presidential campaign, she was once again in the spotlight, but she didn't mind her failure to become first lady: "Reagan left a good impression on me, we are good friends. Will always be a good friend. ”
In a career spanning more than 60 years, she has appeared in 86 films and hundreds of television shows, and after her death her adopted son said that "Hollywood has lost one of the most elegant women who have ever made the screen shine", she has gone from being an obscure actor to a Hollywood dreamer, and her inspirational story has inspired a generation.