Janice Elaine Maxwell (November 20, 1956 – February 11, 2018) was an American stage and television actress. She was a five-time

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nominee and two-time

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winner. In a career spanning over thirty years, Maxwell was one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed stage actresses of her time. Maxwell made her

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debut in 1989, as an understudy in the musical '' City of Angels''. She received her first Tony nomination in 2005 for the musical ''

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''. Her other nominations were for ''

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'' in 2007, ''

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'' and ''

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'' both in 2010, and ''

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'' in 2012. Her nominations in two separate

categories in 2010, made her only the fourth actress to achieve two nominations in a single year. Her 2012 nomination for ''Follies'' made her only the second actress to receive a Tony nomination in all four acting categories. Her other Broadway credits include ''

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'' (1992), ''

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'' (1997), ''

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'' (1998) and ''

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'' (2001). Maxwell appeared in films and television shows such as '' I Am Michael'' with

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, Neil LaBute's ''Billy and Billie'' (2014–15), '' The Divide'' (2014), ''

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'' (2014), and ''

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'' (2009–2011). From 1994-2003, she appeared in four episodes of the

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drama ''

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'', each time as a different character. She also appeared in season 3 of '' Madam Secretary'' in 2016.

Early life

Maxwell was born in Fargo, North Dakota, as the fifth of six children to former First District Judge, Ralph B. Maxwell, who served in North Dakota from 1967 to 1978, and his wife, Elizabeth "Liz" Maxwell (née Fargusson; 1926–2015), later a lawyer for the

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. She attended

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, and

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. She played the lead role as

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in her 1973 High School play

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Career

Maxwell made her

debut as an understudy in the

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–

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musical '' City of Angels'' in 1989. She eventually took over the dual roles of Carla Haywood and Alaura Kingsley. She appeared in

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's ''

'' in 1992, which won the

for Best Play. She replaced original cast member

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in the role of Agnes. In 1997, she appeared in ''

'' opposite

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. In 1998, she played Elsa Schraeder in the first Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''

''. She then starred opposite

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and

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's ''

'' in 2000 and in ''Sixteen Wounded'' in 2004 with

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and

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. On television during this time, between 1994 and 2003, she made four guest appearances in the long-running

crime drama ''

'', each time as a different character. In 2005, she received a

nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, for the role of Baroness Bomburst in the stage production of ''

''. She also won the

for this role. In 2006, she starred in

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's Off-Broadway revival of

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's ''

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'' for which she received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress. Also in 2006, she reunited with her ''Sound of Music'' co-star

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's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''

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'' in

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. In 2007, she starred as Mrs. Lynch in the Broadway production of Helen Edmundson's ''

'' at the

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, for which she received her second

nomination, for Best Featured Actress in a Play, as well as another Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include performances in ''

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'' at the

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in 1985, in '' House & Garden'' at the

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in 2002, in ''A Bad Friend'' at the

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in 2003 and at

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in the

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concert, ''Opening Doors'', in 2004. In 2008 she appeared Off-Broadway with the Potomac Theatre Project/NYC in

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's ''

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'' and was nominated for a Drama Desk and NYITT award. In 2008, Maxwell appeared on Broadway in the

Manhattan Theater Club Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) is a theatre company located in New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has gr ...

production of ''

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'' in the role of Maria Tura at the

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. She appeared as Julie Cavendish in the Broadway revival of ''

'' at the

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in late 2009. For this role she won the 2010

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. Maxwell starred as Maria in the Broadway revival of ''

'', which began performances at the

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on March 11, 2010. She won the

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as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for this role. Maxwell received two 2010

nominations: one for her leading role in ''The Royal Family'' in 2009 and another for her featured role in ''Lend Me a Tenor'' in 2010. She is only the fourth actress to receive double nominations in a single year. Maxwell played the role of Phyllis Rogers Stone in the

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production of the

–

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musical ''

'', running from May 7 to June 19, 2011 at the Eisenhower Theater in Washington, DC. Her co-stars were

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and

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. She reprised her role in the Broadway limited engagement at the

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, which ran from August 7, 2011 (previews) through January 22, 2012. On October 29, 2011, after the Saturday matinee, Maxwell was hit by a minivan, suffering injuries to her arm and leg, fracturing her

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. She missed the following two shows, but was back a few days later. Maxwell received Helen Hayes, Fred Astaire, Drama League,

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and

nominations for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for this role. The Tony nomination (her fifth) made her only the second actress to receive nominations in all four acting categories; the first was

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. Maxwell reprised her role in this production's transfer to the

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in Los Angeles, California from May 3 to June 9, 2012. She appeared in the PTP/NYC (The Potomac Theatre Project) Off-Broadway production of the Howard Barker play ''Victory: Choices in Reaction'', in a limited engagement in July 2011. In 2013, Maxwell played the role of Skinner in Howard Barker's '' The Castle: A Triumph'' with PTP/NYC at the Atlantic Theatre, Stage 2. She appeared in the Off-Broadway production of the Anthony Giardina play, ''The City of Conversation'' at the

Mitzi Newhouse Theater, from May 5, 2014 to July 26, 2014. She was nominated for the 2015

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, Outstanding Actress in a Play, the 2015

, Best Actress in a Play and 2015

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, Distinguished Performance Award. In an interview with ''Time Out New York'' in July 2016, Maxwell announced that she was retiring from theatre after the run of her second production of ''Scenes from an Execution'' then in rehearsal. She was also a

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and read several audio books, including

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's ''

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'' and '' No Place Like Home''. Maxwell starred as a "scheming Senator" in the

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TV series ''BrainDead'' alongside

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and

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, which aired from June to September 2016.

Personal life and death

Maxwell was married to actor and playwright Robert Emmet Lunney, and they had a son William "Will" Maxwell-Lunney. Maxwell died on February 11, 2018 from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis complicated from

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at her Manhattan apartment at the age of 61."Jan Maxwell Dies at 61"
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"Jan Maxwell, a Five-Time Tony Award Nominee, Dies at 61"
Playbill, February 11, 2018

Awards and nominations

Stage

References

External links

* * *
Career listing at American Theatre Wing
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