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Wyman, Jane, originally Sarah Jane Fulks 1914-
US actress

Born in St Joseph, Missouri, she was a child actress, and made her first breakthrough as a radio singer. It was not until her performance in the film The Lost Weekend (1945) that she was recognized as a serious actress of real talent. She was nominated for an Academy Award for The Yearling (1946), and won one for Johnny Belinda (1948), in which she played a deaf mute. She acted in many films, and starred in the television soap opera Falcon Crest in the 1980s. She was married to Ronald Reagan from 1940 to 1948.