Jane Fordham

Jane Fordham, aka Fannie Fang, is a Toreador and acquaintance of Victoria Ash.

Fordham was an actress. In 1994, she performed at a theatre called the Orpheum in a play called The Story of the Dove's Demise, but the play only ran for ten days.

Some years later, Fordham worked at a small local TV station, Channel 42. When 42 decided to cut back on late-night infomercial programming and instead show cheap B-movie reruns, to try to compete with other local station KRW, she adopted the Fannie Fang character to act as a host for the newly-christened Midnight Theater.

Fannie Fang was a leather-clad seductress, and explicitly a vampire, not entirely unlike Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Ratings almost immediately went through the roof, and Fannie became a phenomenon in her own right. Fordham ignored all requests to star in films or advertisements (and marriage proposals), claiming not to have time for "all that," and stuck to her late-night hosting role.

She mostly flew under the radar for several years, as her Fannie persona was so drastically different from her real self that she was largely unrecognizable. In 2001, however, a man named Victor recognized her from her role in Dove's Demise several years prior. He stalked her and briefly pretended to be a vampire (a vampire pretending to be a movie producer) to get her attention. It did not go well for him.

References

• VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Toreador