Eve Plumb | |
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Born | Eve Aline Plumb April 29, 1958 Burbank, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 1966–present |
Known for | The Brady Bunch The Brady Kids The Brady Brides A Very Brady Christmas Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway Little Women |
Spouses | Rick Mansfield
(m. 1979; div. 1981)Ken Pace
(m. 1995) |
Eve Aline Plumb (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch.[1][2][3]
A native of Southern California, Plumb began appearing in commercials at age seven, and also had guest roles on the televisions series Family Affair, The Big Valley and The Virginian between 1966 and 1967. She was cast as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch in 1969, and portrayed the role until the series' end in 1974. After, Plumb continued to work in television, portraying a teenage prostitute in the NBC television film Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), and as Elizabeth March in the 1978 miniseries Little Women.
Plumb continued to reprise her role as Jan Brady in numerous reunion series and films, including The Brady Brides (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988). She made her feature film debut with a minor role in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), and later appeared in Gregg Araki's black comedy Nowhere (1997). In 2010, Plumb made her New York stage debut in Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage, followed by stage productions of Nora Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Same Time, Next Year. She subsequently had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed thriller Blue Ruin (2013).