Janey Carver — The Ice Storm Character Profile

About Janey Carver

Jim Carver's wife and mother of Mikey and Sandy. Engaged in an affair with Ben Hood but distances herself due to family responsibilities. Attends the key party, selects another man's keys, and returns home emotionally withdrawn and asleep in her party dress, initially unaware of the tragedy.

Character Facts

Played by

Sigourney Weaver

Appears in

The Ice Storm (1997)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Janey Carver — Social Acquaintance — Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire)

  Distant acquaintance

• Janey Carver — Family Mother — Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood)

  Mother-son bond

• Janey Carver — Family Mother — Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci)

  Mother-daughter bond

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More characters from The Ice Storm

• Ben Hood (Kevin Kline)
• Elena Hood (Joan Allen)
• Jim Carver (Jamey Sheridan)
• George Clair (Henry Czerny)
• Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci)
• Dot Halford (Allison Janney)
• Mikey Carver (Elijah Wood)
• Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire)
• Neil Conrad (Glenn Fitzgerald)
• Weather Reporter (Barbara Garrick)
• Dorothy Franklin (Kate Burton)
• Ted Franklin (Jonathan Freeman)