Jeane Manson, born October 1, 1950 (as Jean Ann Manson) in Cleveland, Ohio is an American model, singer and actress.
Jeane Manson was born in America, then following her show business Scottish father (writer) and French mother (singer) to Mexico City. She grew up there for 12 years of her young life.
Returning back to the US in her teens and early adult years, Jeane followed her passion for arts, music, drama and dance.
She studied music at the age of 8, piano and guitar are her instruments and at the young age of 13 went to drama school at MGM studios in California. She continued her music studies (voice and composition) in college and later became a student at the Lee Strasberg Actors Studio.
Early on in Hollywood, she starred in 'The young nurses' directed by Roger Corman, then 'Dirty O’Neill' and 'Terror circus', followed by Playboy Magazine August 1974 issue of 'Playmate of the Month' in which she dared to pose!
In the same month of August 1974 Jeane flew to Europe with nothing but a guitar and one suitcase filled with music and drama books. She left home in California seeking new adventures as an aspiring artist. She set her bags down in Paris, France.
With a remarkable destiny in store for her, Jeane acclimated quickly to the French and European culture. In the first year 1975 she starred in the movie 'Bons baisers de Hong-Kong' with Mickey Rooney and 'The Acrobat' which got the best-comedy-of-the-year award.
She played parts in '10 to Midnight' with Charles Bronson, 'La Trace' with Richard Berry, 'Corps Plongés' directed by Raoul Peck and a minor cameo role in 'The Piano Player' with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert.
Parallel to the cinema, she continued to write music and sing. She toured in 1974 with French singer/actor Sacha Distel. But it was in 1976 where her big break came when she encountered the famous songwriter-composer Jean Renard with whom she recorded her first two million seller hit 'Avant de nous dire adieu'.
This hit song took her throughout the world (Latin America, Europe, Middle East and China).
From then on music became her principal mode of entertainment.
She has recorded more than 500 songs on 24 CD’s mostly with Sony Music. She received 6 gold single records, 2 gold album CD’s and 1 platinum, selling over 24 million copies in her now 30 year long career.
She represented Luxembourg in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'J'ai déjà vu ça dans tes yeux' in Jerusalem in which she ended on the 13th place.
On TV she has appeared and sung with world renowned artists such as Julio Iglesias, Kenny Loggins, Michael Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire, Sting, Joan Baez as well as many French and European Stars.
Jeane’s concert tours throughout the world have kept her on the road throughout the years, figuring more than 5.000 concerts.
Stretching through a variety of French, English, Spanish languages, with a repertoire from pop to gospel to classical music, Jeane has recorded, among the many CD’s, a French-American country album in Nashville, including hits by Reba McIntire and other country stars, a popular Mexican song CD with El Mariachi Mezcal, remembering her life in Mexico City. She also had the privilege of recording two special classical albums in Moscow with the Red Army Choir
including 130 men and a full symphonic orchestra and then following up their commercial release, she performed with them in over 100 cathedrals in France and Switzerland.
She recorded “Yobel”, a song for the World Youth Christian Festival in France and sang for Pope John Paul II when he gave mass in front of 200 thousand people.
She also was rewarded by the French Government the National Order of Merit for her song 'Hymne à la Vie' written by Francis Lai, the great French composer of 'A man and a woman', that dealt with the environmental causes and was rewarded for her career by the Minister of Culture with The Order of Arts and Letters.
In May 2007 she sang at the election night of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Champs Elysées in front of 50 thousand people.
The theatre has also played a great role in Jeane’s life. In the 80’s she starred in Edouard Bourdet’s comedy 'Le sexe faible', also the Molière price winning 'La présidente' written by Jean Poiret and the musical 'Man of la Mancha'. In the 90’s she starred in 2 operettas 'Dédé' a revival from the days of Mistinguette & Maurice Chevalier and 'The 3 Waltzes' by Oscar Strauss for the Marseille Opera. In 2004 she starred in a vaudeville hit 'Un homme parfait' in Paris with Guy Montagné and in 2007 the musical creation of 'Sans famille' composed by Jean-Claude Petit at the Nice Opera.
She played leading roles for television in the series 'Le clan' and 'Talkie walkie' and played the leading role in the 250 episode soap opera 'Riviera'

In the year 2000, Jeane recorded a gospel album with the Broadway’s Gospel Group and continues to tour in many churches in France since there are 36.000 churches so there is a choice! A spiritual choice it is, for she also wrote a book 'Prières d’amour' ('Prayers of love') expressing her faith in God and mankind.
In 2006 she celebrated her 30 year career in France. To commemorate the event, Jeane produced at the famous Cirque d’Hiver, a 150 year old Parisian circus, a spectacular show including 65 musicians, dancers, acrobats and her dancing horses. Jeane is a professional cavalier, she owns her own pure breed Lusitanian horses and has performed singing and riding in Saumur, the French Military Academy, and on a variety of race tracks and other equestrian festivals around the country. A DVD 'An American in Paris' is now available on her website (www.jeanemanson.com).
What makes her move to the rhythm that gives her such energy? It is the passion of giving the best of herself in the world of entertainment. She loves the public and they love her. She has two daughters (Jennifer and Marianne), who both embrace the love of music and drama. Her brother Jean-Marc Manson, born January 1, 1960 in Mexico, is a famous photographer.

She was married (as far as I know) to:
- André Djaoui (1977 - 1979) (divorced) 1 child (Jennifer, aka Shirel)
- Robert Viharo (1981 - ?) (divorced)
- Richard Berry (1983 - 1986) (divorced) 1 child (Marianne)

• Recorded in 1996 the first country & western album by a female singer in French.
  
• Awarded 'The Order of Merit' by the Government of France for her dedication to environmental causes.
  
• Awarded 'The Order of Arts & Letters' by the Government of France for her achievements as a singer-composer, stage and screen actress and television personality.
  
• Double billed with Tony Bennett at the MIDEM international music festival in Cannes in 1976.
  
• Sold over 20 million records worldwide from 1976-1996.
  
• Playboy 'Playmate of the Month' August 1974