Jane van veen biography

Jane Van Veen

Portrayed by: Rachael Taylor

• Artistic License – Medicine: In "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", Jane reacts with great anxiety to the nurse strapping a band on her arm to take her blood pressure (because it reminds her of being restrained during her recent repressed traumatic experience) and tells her to stop, and the nurse insists on pressing on, struggling with her, holding her down and injecting her with sedatives.

  In reality, this would be illegal. Jane's dissociative episode is not enough for her to be treated as mentally incompetent, and hospital workers are supposed to respect patients' anxieties and personal space.

• Face–Heel Turn
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Jane completely blacks out everything from when she enters the hidden stairway in the basement of the Drake to suddenly appearing in Times Square.
• Jane, I Am Your Father: Her con