Jayne Taini

Actress

March 9, 1952 (74 years)

Biography

Jayne Taini (born March 9, 1952) is an American actress on the stage and screen. On television, she has had recurring roles on The Legend of Korra (2014), Ray Donovan (2014 - 2017), and Station 19 (2020 - 2024) in additional to numerous guest appearances.

Filmography

8.6

The Rookie

Bryce's Mother

Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.

7.5

Medium

Heavyset Woman

Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.

8.0

Young Sheldon

Phyllis

The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

7.9

Desperate Housewives

Mrs. Grecco

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

8.0

Lost

Martha Toomey

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

7.5

NCIS: Los Angeles

Owner

The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

7.2

Without a Trace

Nurse

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

8.7

The Pitt

Evelyn Bostick

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

8.1

Mad Men

Nurse Elaine

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

8.5

Malcolm in the Middle

Farmer

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

8.4

The Resident

Teri Keene

A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.

7.9

Rizzoli & Isles

Marion Tibbets

Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protective shield in each other's company, and combine their expertise to solve Boston's most complex cases.

7.2

Sugar

Helen Sugar

John Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.

7.9

Boston Legal

Principal Berleth

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

7.7

The Practice

Nancy Horan

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

8.2

Station 19

Marsha Smith

A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put their own lives in jeopardy as first responders to save the lives of others.

7.4

Strong Medicine

Elmira

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

8.1

Six Feet Under

Vera

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

8.2

The Legend of Korra

Queen Hou-Ting (voice)

Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

7.0

Numb3rs

Marion Crane

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.