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| Birth name | Eve Aline Plumb |
| Born | April 29 1958 Burbank, California |
- Not to be confused with Eve's Plum, the rock group.
Eve Aline[1] Plumb (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress. Plumb is best known for her portrayal of Jan Brady in the television sitcom The Brady Bunch.
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Career
Jan, the middle sister
In the 1969-74 ABC hit series The Brady Bunch, Plumb portrayed Jan Brady, age 11 to 15, one of three sisters. Jan had to deal with so-called middle child syndrome, displaying a certain amount of envy and mild resentment in regard to her older sister Marcia. Various episodes starring Jan (Plumb) included insecurity over wearing glasses, embarrassment over not having a boyfriend, jealousy of her older sister, and concerns over her future appearance.
Beyond The Brady Bunch
Mixed feelings
Of all the Brady Bunch child cast, Plumb arguably has worked most consistently to carve an acting career distanced from her role on the show. This has apparently led to conflicting feelings about The Brady Bunch. In an article published by the Chicago Tribune in the 1990s on The Real Live Brady Bunch, Plumb participated in a performance (albeit not as "Jan") and was met by enthusiastic fans who asked "What was your favorite episode?". Plumb replied somewhat jokingly "The last one." Seeing their disappointment, she modified her answer by saying "The Grand Canyon episode was kind of cool." Plumb has since stated that she and the other Bradys have an unspoken agreement to always be courteous and polite to fans of The Brady Bunch. In a TV Land special, The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady after All These Years, broadcast on September 29, 2004, Plumb stated that she had never seen The Brady Bunch Movie. When asked to give the audience an update on her life today, she stated that she was "still auditioning."
1970s
Plumb portrayed Jan from 1969 until 1974. Seeking other parts and perhaps hoping to distance herself from strong identification as "Jan," she did not rejoin her television siblings for the later Brady Bunch Variety Show. During production of the show, Plumb appeared in NBC productions of Little Women, in both TV Movie and a short-lived series format. In 1976, Plumb surprised everyone with a stunning dramatic performance in the made-for-television movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, and joined the LA based Groundlings Improv comedy troupe.
1980s
In the early 1980s, Plumb chose to participate in the Brady made-for-TV movies that followed, including The Brady Girls Get Married which gave her a featured role, and The Brady Brides, a sitcom in which she was a co-lead. She appeared in the Brady movie A Very Brady Christmas. In that movie, she is married to Phillip Covington III. Jan and Phillip are on the verge of divorce but Carol comes to the rescue and saves their marriage. Plumb also had a memorable cameo appearance in the 1988 movie I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.
1990s
Plumb appeared in the 1990 series The Brady's, wherein Jan and Phillip try, in vain, to conceive a child and end up adopting a Chinese girl named Patty. Plumb appeared steadily on stage and in television roles through the 1990s, in roles both small and large. She appeared in the Saturday morning sitcom Fudge (1995–1997) as Fudge's mother, Mrs. Ann Thatcher and in the movie Fudge-A-Mania (1997), and was the original Pam Burkhart on That '70s Show (only seen in episode 6 "The Keg").
2000s
She appeared as one of the "Strangers" on the December 18, 2006 premiere episode of the NBC game show Identity. She was introduced at the start of the show as "Eve Plumb from The Brady Bunch." The contestant incorrectly selected her as an "Academy Award Winner," despite host Penn Jillette cautioning the contestant that The Brady Bunch was a TV show and the Academy Awards were for films. Plumb's actual identity was a painter.
Personal
Today, Plumb resides in Laguna Beach, California, with her second husband Kenneth Pace. She works as an artist, has served as a member of the Laguna Beach Board of Adjustments/Design Review Board since February 2002, and was elected chair pro-tem of that board in February 2005.
Maureen McCormick
In 1997, The Brady Bunch co-star Maureen McCormick revealed that she had a crush on Eve Plumb and that the two had kissed. McCormick has been reported to be writing about a lesbian relationship with Plumb in an upcoming book.[2] On September 23, 2007, the book's publisher denied there would be any revelations of a lesbian affair in her forthcoming book, scheduled to be published in 2008.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000589/bio
- ^ contactmusic.com retrieved 21 September 2007
- ^ [1]
External links
- Eve Plumb at the Internet Movie Database
- Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway at the Internet Movie Database
- eveplumb.tv
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| People | Creator: Sherwood Schwartz Original actors: Robert Reed · Florence Henderson · Maureen McCormick · Barry Williams · Eve Plumb · Christopher Knight · Susan Olsen · Mike Lookinland · Ann B. Davis · Allan Melvin Other actors: Geri Reischl · Gary Cole · Shelley Long · Christine Taylor · Christopher Daniel Barnes Producers: Lloyd J. Schwartz |
| TV series | The Brady Bunch · The Brady Kids · The Brady Bunch Hour · The Brady Brides · The Bradys |
| TV movies | The Brady Girls Get Married · A Very Brady Christmas · Growing Up Brady · The Brady Bunch in the White House |
| TV specials | Brady Bunch Home Movies · · The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady After All These Years |
| Feature films | The Brady Bunch Movie · A Very Brady Sequel |
| Stage shows | The Real Live Brady Bunch |
| Books | The Brady Bunch Book · Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg · Bradymania! · · Alice's Brady Bunch Cookbook |
| List of The Brady Bunch episodes | |
