Jane Porter (Disney)

Jane Porter
Background information
Movies	Tarzan Tarzan & Jane
TV Series	The Legend of Tarzan
Video Games	Tarzan Tarzan: Untamed Kingdom Hearts
Park Attractions	Tarzan Rocks! Tarzan's Treehouse Fantasmic! World of Color Tarzan: Call of the Jungle
Portrayed by	Jennifer Gambatese (musical)
Voice	Minnie Driver (original film) Olivia d'Abo (TV series, Tarzan & Jane) Naia Kelly (1999 video game, Tarzan: Untamed, Kingdom Hearts)
Animators	Ken Duncan Doug Krohn Robert Bryan Mark Koetsier Jared Beckstrand
Inspiration	Jane Porter from the Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burrougha
Accolades	Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Minnie Driver)
Character information
Other names	Miss Porter (by Clayton) Janey (by Professor Porter) Mrs. Tarzan (by Tantor) "Ohisee" (by Tarzan, on their first encounter)
Personality	Ambitious, artistic, curious, intelligent, eccentric, talkative, empathetic, proper, approachable, charming
Appearance	Slender, fair skin, rosy cheeks, pink lips, long brown hair, lavender eyelids, blue eyes
Occupation	Artist Queen of the Apes
Alignment	Good
Goal	To study and understand gorillas (succeeded) To stay with Tarzan (succeeded)
Home	England (formerly) Jungle
Relationships
Parents	Archimedes Q. Porter (father) Unnamed mother †
Partner(s)	Tarzan (husband)
Relatives	Kala (adoptive mother-in-law) Kerchak † (adoptive father-in-law) Isabel (aunt; mentioned by her father) Tarzan's Parents † (father-in-law and mother-in-law) Gwendoline (cousin; mentioned) Kerchak and Kala's Baby Son † (adoptive brother-in-law) Terk (adoptive cousin-in-law) Terk's mother (adoptive aunt-in-law)
Allies	Terk, Tantor, Clayton (formerly), Kala, Kerchak, Flynt and Mungo, Renard Dumont (sometimes)
Enemies	Clayton, Clayton's men, Tublat, Queen La, Nuru and Sheeta, Renard Dumont (sometimes), Zutho, Muviro
Personal information
Likes	Sketching, animal research, baby gorillas, birds, exploration, adventuring with Tarzan
Dislikes	Baboons, poachers, excessive heights, disorder, the sound of gunshots
Status	Active
Fate	Marries Tarzan and finds a permanent home in the jungle
Quote	"No, no, no! Ahem. I'm Jane." "I'm in a tree with a man who talks to monkeys." "And, daddy, they took my boot!"

“I was saved by a flying, wild man in loin cloth!”

―Jane to her father about Tarzan

Jane Porter is the deuteragonist of the Tarzan franchise, debuting in the 1999 film of hte same name.

She is a charismatic, albeit eccentric ethnologist who travels to Africa to study gorillas alongside her father, Archimedes Q. Porter. During her expedition, Jane meets a "wild man" named Tarzan, with whom she would eventually fall in love.