- Born
- Birth nameEve Aline Plumb
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- 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 and spawned numerous spin-offs. While Plumb declined to reprise the role of Jan in the first spin-off, the TV variety show The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976), as she did not want to sign a five-year contract (the show was canceled after nine episodes), she did appear as Jan in the subsequent spin-offs featuring the original cast: the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981), the short-lived sitcom The Brady Brides (1981), the TV movie A Very Brady Christmas (1988), and another short-lived TV series, The Bradys (1990).
Though she has worked steadily in TV since a child, her only other major role was as a teenage prostitute in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976).
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 by: bls
- SpousesKen Pace(September 24, 1995 - present)Richard N Mansfield(July 22, 1979 - July 12, 1984) (divorced)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsFlora June Plumb
- Was the only original cast member who did not reprise her role in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1976). Geri Reischl was cast as "Jan Brady" instead. There were rumors that she didn't want to be associated with the Bradys, but Plumb has said in interviews that she was willing to do the variety show's original special episode, but could not commit to the five-year option for additional episodes.
- She has played the same character (Jan Brady) in five different series: The Brady Bunch (1969), The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972), The Brady Kids (1972), The Brady Brides (1981) and The Bradys (1990).
- Was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist (1973).
- Plumb was the first of the six Brady kids to get married.
- Enjoys painting and riding horses.
- With acting, you have to wait for somebody to call you, then you have to wait to see if they like you, and a lot of times they don't. With painting, I love the control. I get to choose it all: When I do it, how it's presented. It's mine. By the time I put a painting on the wall, it's out of my hands. If people like it, fine; if they don't, that's fine, too.
- I'll always be Jan Brady to so many people. I can't escape it, but I can do other things
- [2026, on residuals from The Brady Bunch (1969)] If I had a dime for every rerun episode, I'd pay off the national deficit. I don't.
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