[5] Jane Placide and her siblings were schooled into the acting profession from an early age in their parents theater company, who performed both in the Charleston Theatre as well as toured around Virginia and the Carolina states.
She made her formal debut as an actor as Volante in 'The Honey Moon' in the Norfolk, Virginia company of impresario Charles Gilfert in 1820.
[8] She acted with many of the most famed actors on the American stage, such as Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, Junius Brutus Booth and Edwin Forrest.
In 1834, she accompanied James H. Caldwell to London, where she made her debut at the Covent Garden Theatre.
[6] Edwin Forrest was reportedly also in love with Placide, and supposedly challenged Caldwell to a duel, which never happened.