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Jan Maxwell
Born	November 20, 1956 (1956-11-20) (age 51) Fargo, North Dakota, United States

Jan Maxwell (born November 20, 1956), is a Tony Award-nominated American stage and television actress. She is the daughter of former 1st District Judge Ralph B. Maxwell (born November 26, 1919 and served 1967-1978) and a graduate of West Fargo High School, West Fargo, North Dakota where she was an honor student and star in the school's play productions including the leading role as Calamity Jane in Deadwood Dick. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ... is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Fargo” redirects here. ... is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... is the 330th day of the year (331st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... West Fargo High School is an American high school located in West Fargo, North Dakota. ... West Fargo is a city located in Cass County, North Dakota. ... Official language(s) English Capital Bismarck Largest city Fargo Area  Ranked 19th  - Total 70,762 sq mi (183,272 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 340 miles (545 km)  - % water 2. ... For the film, see Calamity Jane (1953 film) Calamity Jane at age 33. ... Deadwood Dick was a character who from the pages of an 1800s Dime novel. ...

Maxwell made her Broadway debut as an understudy in Cy Coleman – David Zippel musical City of Angels in 1989. She eventually replaced one of the original cast members. Cy Coleman (June 14, 1929 - November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ... David Zippel is an American Tony Award-winning Musical theatre lyricist. ... The City of Angels Broadway Playbill, courtesy of broadwayman. ...

She also appeared in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. She replaced original cast member Brid Brennan in the role of Agnes. She also appeared in A Doll's House opposite Janet McTeer; Neil Simon's The Dinner Party opposite John Ritter and Henry Winkler and Sixteen Wounded with Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton. Brian Friel (born 9 January 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland. ... Dancing at Lughnasa (see also Lughnasa, the ancient pagan ritual) is a play by Brian Friel set in Irelands County Donegal in August 1936. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Cover page to manuscript of A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen, 1879 For other uses, see A Dolls House (disambiguation). ... Janet McTeer (8 May 1961-) is a British actor. ... Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. ... The Dinner Party is a one-act play, which tells the story of 6 unknowing guests who are invited to a dinner party with no clue as to its purpose. ... This article is about the American actor. ... Dr. Henry Franklin Jameson Frederick Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer and author. ... Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935 in Bronx, New York) is an American actor, best known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series Taxi. ... Plimpton at the New York premiere of Miramaxs Kill Bill: Volume 1 Martha Plimpton (born Martha Carradine on November 16, 1970, in New York City) is former model turned actress who was born to famous actor parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. ...

Her Broadway musical debut was in 1998, in the first revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music in which she played Elsa Schraeder. For other uses, see The Sound of Music (disambiguation). ...

In 2005, she received a Tony Award nomination, for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for the stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She played the role of Baroness Bomburst. She won the Drama Desk Award for the same role. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Chitty the Musical is a stage musical based on the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming and the 1968 film produced by Cubby Broccoli. ... Baroness Bomburst is a fictional character and one of the antagonists in the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ...

In 2007, she starred in the Broadway production of Coram Boy, for which she received her second Tony Award nomination, for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Coram Boy is a play written by Helen Edmundson with music composed by Adrian Sutton, based on the 2000 childrens novel of the same name by Jamila Gavin, an epic adventure that concerns the theme of child cruelty. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

In 2006, she starred in Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane. The show made national headlines because of behind-the-scenes friction with co-star Alec Baldwin. Maxwell complained to Roundabout production team about Baldwin's behavior, which included punching a hole in a wall and throwing objects around. [1] [2] The New York Post reported that Maxwell wrote in an email to a friend: "(The) bottom line was my physical safety, mental health and artistic integrity - none of which Roundabout was supporting." The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit, subscription based theatre company, based in New York City. ... Joe Orton Joe Orton (Born: John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England. ... Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by Joe Orton. ... Alexander Rae Alec Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958) is an Emmy- and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe Award-winning, American actor. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ...

She has made numerous guest appearances, mostly in different roles, in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order. This article is about the television network. ... This article is about the original television series. ...

Her off-Broadway credits include performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. ... The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. ... The Manhattan Theatre Club is a theatrical company which produces new plays and musicals at the Biltmore Theatre and the New York City Center. ... The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ...

She is also a voice actress and has done several audio books, including Mary Higgins Clark's Two Little Girls in Blue and No Place Like Home. A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and television commercials. ... Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels. ... No place like home is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2005. ...

In 2006, she reunited with her Sound of Music co-star Richard Chamberlain in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I in Honolulu, Hawaii. Richard Chamberlain, right, as John Blackthorne, and John Rhys-Davies, left, as the Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues in the Shogun television miniseries. ... The HawaiÊ»i Opera Theatre, or HOT is HawaiÊ»is opera theatre. ... The King and I is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Its script is based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

External links

• Jan Maxwell at the Internet Movie Database