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11-22-2019, 04:54 AM
Jane Galloway Heitz, Actress on "Glee", Dies at 78
by Mike Barnes
Nov. 21, 2019
Jane Galloway Heitz, an actress and former casting agent whom "Glee" aficionados will recognize from her photo in the choir room and auditorium at William McKinley High School, has died. She was 78.
Galloway Heitz died Nov. 13 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Highland Park, Illinois, her daughter, Amie Richardson, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A photograph of Galloway Heitz was seen often on "Glee" on a plaque in a trophy case commemorating the life of Lillian Adler, the former head of glee club at McKinley High.
That plaque, which contained Adler's birth and death years (1937-1997) and the phrase, "By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy," served as an inspiration for Will (Matthew Morrison) to take over as glee club director.
Galloway Heitz appeared in person just twice on the show, both in the same flashback scene: in the director's cut of the 2009 pilot (before her character dies of an unknown cause) and in the 2015 series final.
Her plaque — and another honoring Cory Monteith's Finn Hudson — is seen in the very last shot of the series.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-galloway-heitz-dead-glee-actress-was-78-1256689
by Mike Barnes
Nov. 21, 2019
Jane Galloway Heitz, an actress and former casting agent whom "Glee" aficionados will recognize from her photo in the choir room and auditorium at William McKinley High School, has died. She was 78.
Galloway Heitz died Nov. 13 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Highland Park, Illinois, her daughter, Amie Richardson, told The Hollywood Reporter.
A photograph of Galloway Heitz was seen often on "Glee" on a plaque in a trophy case commemorating the life of Lillian Adler, the former head of glee club at McKinley High.
That plaque, which contained Adler's birth and death years (1937-1997) and the phrase, "By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy," served as an inspiration for Will (Matthew Morrison) to take over as glee club director.
Galloway Heitz appeared in person just twice on the show, both in the same flashback scene: in the director's cut of the 2009 pilot (before her character dies of an unknown cause) and in the 2015 series final.
Her plaque — and another honoring Cory Monteith's Finn Hudson — is seen in the very last shot of the series.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jane-galloway-heitz-dead-glee-actress-was-78-1256689