Jane Tucker

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Jane studied piano and ballet from the age of three. Her first ambition was to be a concert pianist, but as a teenager she decided she wanted to be an actress and trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she continued her piano and singing whilst embarking on a full time drama course.

She comes from an artistic background--her grandmother was an opera singer, her mother a pianist, and her father a drama director at the BBC, so she was destined to be involved in the Arts!

After graduating, she followed the classic route of repertory theatre, touring, TV, and radio, leading to a job in 1974 on the award winning children's TV series Rainbow for Thames Television, which was to last for 21 years. In 1980, Jane, with fellow partners Rod Burton and Freddy Marks, were given their own show, Rod, Jane and Freddy, which ran for nearly 10 years in tandem with Rainbow.

In 1990, they took their show on the road and toured extensively across the UK, playing every major theatre for the next six years. They won the BACS (British Academy of Composers and Songwriters) Gold Badge Award in 1996 for outstanding contribution to the music industry.