United Kingdom, April 14 -- Jane Krakowski can't explain the reasons behind Ally McBeal's success.

The comedy-drama TV series premiered in September 1997 and quickly became a global hit - but Jane, who played Elaine Vassal on the show, struggles to explain Ally McBeal's popularity.

Jane, 57 - who starred on the hit TV show alongside Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson and Peter MacNicol - told the Guardian newspaper: "It became such a water-cooler show, and I still don't know the reasonings why certain things took off and certain things didn't."

Jane has enjoyed huge success on stage and screen during the course of her career.

The actress initially dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but then "at a certain point, I re...