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Jan grew up in Streatham, South London and left school at 16 to be a ballet dancer and trained at the Royal Ballet School and she danced with them until she had to give it up due to a knee injury. She got a big break when she was cast as Penny in the television comedy series Just Good Friends. She's married to screenwriter Thomas Ellice having proposed to him on leap year and they have 2 children.

She has two daughters: Josephine (born in 1982) and Anna (born in 1988).

Won the TV Times best actress award for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0096704/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Stay Lucky (1989)</a>.

Originally a dancer who spent four years with the Royal Ballet Company before turning to acting.

Her father was the organiser of the Royal Dairy Show.

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