Eve Plumb

Eve Plumb the actress and painter most famous for playing the role of Jan on The Brady Bunch 1969 began acting professionally in 1966 appearing in TV commercials The child actor began getting parts on series television in 1967 Her place in TV history was cemented when she landed the role of Jan Brady the middle of three daughters in a mixed family that also featured three sons in the TV sitcom The Brady Bunch The show which debuted in 1969 ran for five seasons through 1974 and spawned numerous spinoffs While Plumb declined to reprise the role of Jan in the first spinoff the TV variety show The Brady Bunch Variety Hour 19761977 as she did not want to sign a fiveyear contract the show was canceled after nine episodes she did appear as Jan in the subsequent spinoffs featuring the original cast the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married 1981 1981 the shortlived sitcom The Brady Brides 1981 the TV movie A Very Brady Christmas 1988 and another shortlived TV series The Bradys 1990 Though she has worked steadily in TV since a child her only other major role was as a teenage hooker in the 1976 TV movie Dawn Portrait of a Teenage Runaway In the 1990s Plumb began painting fashioning for herself a second artistic career She works out of a studio at her Laguna Beach home IMDb Mini Biography