Janice Elaine Maxwell was an American stage and television actress.
18 Facts About Jan Maxwell
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Jan Maxwell made her Broadway debut in 1989, as an understudy in the musical City of Angels.
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Jan Maxwell received her first Tony nomination in 2005 for the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Jan Maxwell appeared in season 3 of Madam Secretary in 2016.
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Jan Maxwell played the lead role as Calamity Jane in her high school's 1973 production of Deadwood Dick.
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Jan Maxwell appeared in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa in 1992, which won the Tony Award for Best Play.
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Jan Maxwell then starred opposite John Ritter and Henry Winkler in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party in 2000 and in Sixteen Wounded in 2004 with Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton.
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In 2008, Jan Maxwell appeared on Broadway in the Manhattan Theater Club production of To Be or Not to Be in the role of Maria Tura at the Friedman Theatre.
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Jan Maxwell appeared as Julie Cavendish in the Broadway revival of The Royal Family at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre in late 2009.
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Jan Maxwell starred as Maria in the Broadway revival of Lend Me a Tenor, which began performances at the Music Box Theatre on March 11,2010.
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Jan Maxwell received two 2010 Tony Award nominations: one for her leading role in The Royal Family in 2009 and another for her featured role in Lend Me a Tenor in 2010.
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Jan Maxwell reprised her role in the Broadway limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre, which ran from August 7,2011 through January 22,2012.
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On October 29,2011, after the Saturday matinee, Jan Maxwell was hit by a minivan, suffering injuries to her arm and leg, fracturing her fibula.
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Jan Maxwell reprised her role in this production's transfer to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California from May 3 to June 9,2012.
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Jan Maxwell appeared in the Off-Broadway production of the Anthony Giardina play, The City of Conversation at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater, from May 5,2014, to July 26,2014.
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Jan Maxwell was nominated for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, the 2015 Drama Desk Award, Best Actress in a Play and 2015 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance Award.
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Jan Maxwell starred as a "scheming Senator" in the CBS TV series BrainDead alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit and Tony Shalhoub, which aired from June to September 2016.
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Jan Maxwell died on February 11,2018, from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis complicated from breast cancer at her Manhattan apartment at the age of 61.