Jane Mancini , interpretada por Josie Bissett , es un personaje ficticio de la telenovela Melrose Place de horario estelar de los años 1990 y su resurgimiento en 2009 .
Cuando comienza la serie, ella está casada con Michael Mancini y trabaja en una boutique de ropa en Melrose Ave. En Los Ángeles, Jane y Michael se desempeñan como superintendentes del edificio de apartamentos y tienen carreras separadas. Un punto importante de la trama para Jane y Michael en la primera temporada es su incapacidad para encontrar tiempo para estar juntos y gestionar sus apretadas agendas de trabajo.
Al final de la primera temporada, la alguna vez feliz relación de Jane y Michael comienza a desmoronarse cuando Michael engaña a Jane con su colega doctora Kimberly Shaw . Jane luego se divorcia de Michael. La hermana menor de Jane, Sydney Andrews, se muda a su apartamento y comienza a tener una aventura con Michael a espaldas de Jane. Después de que Sydney chantajea a Michael para que se case con ella, Jane comienza a salir con Robert Wilson. Jane rompe con Robert después de que él se acuesta con una prostituta que Michael y Sydney le prepararon como parte de un trato.
Después de Robert, Jane comienza a salir con el empresario australiano Chris Marchette. Chris resulta ser un estafador y malversa dinero del negocio de diseño de Jane. Chris quiere casarse con Jane por su dinero, y al mismo tiempo se obsesiona con Sydney y quiere usarla como su concubina. Michael finalmente rescata a Jane de Chris después de descubrir las verdaderas intenciones de Chris.
Jane finalmente se convierte en socia comercial de Richard Hart y luego se compromete con él. Sin embargo, Jo Reynolds le reveló a Richard que Jane no lo amaba realmente y Richard comienza a ver a Jo. Esto provoca una ruptura en la amistad de Jane y Jo. Luego, Jane comienza a salir con Jake Hanson , pero termina la relación después de que Richard la viola y golpea. Jane planea vengarse y se une a Sydney para conspirar para asesinar a Richard, pero las cosas no salen según lo planeado. Luego, la policía mata a Richard.
Shortly after being robbed at gunpoint several episodes later, Jane leaves Melrose Place and moves back to her hometown of Chicago. She eventually moves back to L.A. for the final season of the show. Jane and Michael rekindle their relationship, and they marry each other for a second time. However, his old ways eventually caused her to leave him again. It is also revealed that she cheated on him the night before her first wedding to him. After divorcing Michael again, she starts a relationship with Kyle. She later finds out that she is pregnant with Michael's baby. Although Kyle knows the baby is not his, he agrees to raise the baby with her. In the series finale, Jane and Kyle are still together, and they find out they are having a girl.
Jane reappears in the 2009 follow-up series as the new landlord of the Melrose apartment building. Her character in the follow-up series became a scheming, devious, crafty, and downright amoral and evil person just like all of the other characters. At the aftermath of her sister's death, Jane meets Ella Simms (Katie Cassidy), but actually threatens to show the police incriminating e-mails Ella sent Sydney unless the publicist makes her client wear one of Jane's designs, hoping to make a comeback after her boutique burned down years ago (in an arson fire, which implies, but never fully explains, that Jane may have set the fire to her own boutique to collect a fire insurance payment). Violet Foster (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz) reveals herself as Sydney's illegitimate daughter and Jane seemingly accepts Violet, but she immediately betrays Violet for no clear reason by tipping off the police of Violet's past (stealing money from her foster parents to search for her mother). Jane also goes back on her word to Ella and informs the police of Ella's incriminating e-mails thus getting Ella arrested. Jane briefly returns in episode "Santa Fe" to check up on Amanda to make sure that Ella pays for pulling the red carpet under her. Jane and Michael reunite also with Jo.
Korbi Ghosh of Zap2it describes Jane as "the first first lady of the series -- and probably the only one who pretty much maintained her sanity from start to finish -- Jane is sweet! And so is the lady who plays her."[1]