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Popular As	Janet Bailey
Occupation	Actress
Age	80 years old
Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Born	May 21, 1944 ()
Birthday	May 21
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🌙 Zodiac

Janet Bailey’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Janet Bailey was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.

Janet was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Her professional career began following her time at Toronto's Leah Posluns Theatre. She first studied Dance with Jacques Fosier and later studied Drama with Reva Stern and Rose Dubin.

In 1984, she went to study and at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where she studied under the tutelage of Sandford Meisner, graduating in 1985. Her film career ;Race to Freedom; began in 1986 but she continued to learn her craft studying with Carol Rosenfeld Kurt Reis and Neil Freeman at C.

A.S.T. and finally studying theatre with Jim Wilson in Los Angeles. Her career in Theatre, Television and Film has won accolades in Canada and the United States. For example, for her role as Sarah in the television movie Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, which costarred Courtney B.

Vance, Janet Bailey received a Best Actress Gemini Nomination. The production also screened at the Canadian Embassy in Washington and Bailey was introduced as "one of Canada's best kept secrets". Her work on the series Traders, in the role of Susannah Marks, brought her a second and third nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

In Deepa Mehta's screen version of The Republic of Love she plays the quirky ex-wife of Bruce Greenwood's Tom Avery. That same year she played opposite Greg Kinear in the feature film Godsend, starring Robert De Niro.

In the final season of the critically acclaimed series Slings and Arrows, Bailey played soap opera diva Barbara Gorman, which she followed with the role of straight talking lawyer Susan Aimes on NBC's Beautiful People.

After viewing Bailey's interpretation of the sweet but streetwise prostitute, Velma Fontaine, in the television movie Spencer Ceremony, New York Magazine singled her out as "meriting a movie of her own" Her fourth Gemini nomination, this time for Best actress in a guest role, came for her portrayal of Harriet in an episode of Global Television's Blue Murder.

She also teaches theatre due to being active on both stage and screen.