Jane Pratt was born on November 11, 1962 in San Francisco, California, USA as Jane Elizabeth Pratt. She is an actress, known for Vanilla Sky (2001), R.E.M. by MTV (2014) and Kingpin - Zwei Trottel auf der Bowlingbahn (1996). She has been married to Andrew Shaifer since February 2002. They have one child.
Jane was the founding editor-in-chief of an alternative teen magazine in the 80s and 90s called "Sassy". It was based on the Australian magazine "Dolly". Under her guidance, the magazine published controversial articles that existing mainstream magazines marketed to teenage girls would not touch. During and after Sassy, she attempted to host a couple of talk shows, but both failed to garner ratings. She is presently editor-in-chief of Jane magazine, for which she hired (and fired) several ex-Sassy staffers. Has one daughter, named Charlotte Jane (born December 2002). She initially announced that she was going to be naming her daughter Isabel. She changed her mind at the last minute, choosing instead to name the child after her North Carolina hometown and herself. Played electric violin in the Sassy Magazine house-band "Chia Pet" Attended North Carolina School of the Arts and Philips Academy Andover (Massachussetts) on scholarships and financial aid while her family was on welfare. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1984 with a double major in Dance and Communications. Discovered Spike Jonze who she hired to be an editor of Dirt Magazine, and Chloƫ Sevigny who did a summer internship at Sassy Magazine. Was born on the same day and month as Susanna Kaysen , author of Durchgeknallt (1999) Her publishing career began with internships at RollingStone and SportStyle. She later gets a paid job as an assistant editor at McCall's. JANE magazine was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Jane Pratt was named "Editor of the Year" in 2002 by Adweek magazine. Founding Editor of Sassy, a smart magazine for teenage girls. Her parents, Vernon Pratt and Sheila Blake, were university art professors in San Francisco. Attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH.
On April 5, 1980 four college pals-Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe-took the stage together for the first time to play at a friend's birthday party. The band they started that night stayed together for thirty years and changed the shape of rock music. R.E.M. By MTV tells R.E.M.'s story in their own words, through three decades of performances and interviews R.E.M gave to MTV channels in the USA and around the world. Featuring revealing, never-before-seen footage, R.E.M. By MTV tells the amazing story of a band that did it their own way, and changed how a generation of musicians after them did it, too.