Jan Maxwell
{{short description|American actress (1956 – 2018)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jan Maxwell
| image = Jan Maxwell (cropped).jpg
| caption = Maxwell in 2010
| birth_name = Janice Elaine Maxwell{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/jan-maxwell-acclaimed-stage-actress-is-dead-at-61.html|title=Jan Maxwell, Celebrated Stage Actress, Is Dead at 61|work=The New York Times|date=12 February 2018|author=Gates, Anita}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1956|11|20}}
| birth_place = Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|2|11|1956|11|20}}
| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| alma_mater = Moorhead State University
| years_active = 1989–2017
| spouse = Robert Emmet Lunney
| awards = Drama Desk Award (2005, 2010)
}}
Janice Elaine Maxwell (November 20, 1956 – February 11, 2018) was an American stage and television actress. She was a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award 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 Broadway debut in 1989, as an understudy in the musical City of Angels. She received her first Tony nomination in 2005 for the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Her other nominations were for Coram Boy in 2007, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family both in 2010, and Follies in 2012.
Her nominations in two separate Tony Award 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 Dancing at Lughnasa (1992), A Doll's House (1997), The Sound of Music (1998) and The Dinner Party (2001).
Maxwell appeared in films and television shows such as I Am Michael with James Franco, Neil LaBute's Billy and Billie (2014–15), The Divide (2014), The Good Wife (2014), and Gossip Girl (2009–2011). From 1994-2003, she appeared in four episodes of the NBC drama Law & Order, 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,[http://www.ndcourts.com/court/bios/maxwell.htm "North Dakota Supreme Court, Ralph B. Maxwell biography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203170016/http://www.ndcourts.com/court/bios/maxwell.htm |date=December 3, 2008 }} ndcourts.com, retrieved May 24, 2010 and his wife, Elizabeth "Liz" Maxwell (née Fargusson; 1926–2015),{{cite web|url=https://www.ndcourts.gov/court/news/maxwell0715.htm|title=Elizabeth Maxwell 1926-2015|publisher=North Dakota Supreme Court|date=20 July 2015|access-date=February 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213195119/https://www.ndcourts.gov/court/news/maxwell0715.htm|archive-date=February 13, 2018|url-status=dead}} later a lawyer for the EPA. She attended West Fargo High School, West Fargo, North Dakota, University of Utah, and Moorhead State University.{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Simonson|authorlink=Robert Simonson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/theater/12simo.html|title=Frightener of Tots, Enemy of Mediocrity|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 8, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106041723/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/theater/12simo.html |archive-date=January 6, 2018 }}
She played the lead role as Calamity Jane in her high school's 1973 production of Deadwood Dick.
Career
Maxwell made her Broadway debut as an understudy in the Cy Coleman – David Zippel musical City of Angels in 1989. She eventually took over the dual roles of Carla Haywood and Alaura Kingsley.{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4261|title='City of Angels' listing|website=Internet Broadway Database|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611171651/http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4261 |archive-date=June 11, 2010|accessdate=May 24, 2010}}{{cite book|first=John|last=Willis|title=Theatre World 1990-1991|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|date=2000|ISBN=1-55783-126-2|page=39}}
She appeared in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa in 1992, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. She replaced original cast member Brid Brennan in the role of Agnes. In 1997, she appeared in A Doll's House opposite Janet McTeer. In 1998, she played Elsa Schraeder in the first Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4849 "The Sound of Music', 1998 listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124190648/http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4849 |date=November 24, 2010 }} Internet Broadway Database listing ibdb.com, retrieved May 24, 2010{{cite web|first=Elyse|last=Sommer|url=http://www.curtainup.com/soundmu.html|title=Review, 'The Sound of Music'|website=curtainup.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201195620/http://curtainup.com/soundmu.html |archive-date=February 1, 2010|date=March 13, 1998}}{{cite book|first=John|last=Willis|title=Theatre World, 1997-1998|volume=54|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin|date=2001|ISBN=1-55783-409-1|page=37}} She then starred opposite John Ritter and Henry Winkler in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party in 2000 and in Sixteen Wounded in 2004 with Judd Hirsch and Martha Plimpton.{{cite web|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=51940|title=Jan Maxwell Internet Broadway Database listing|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025050646/http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=51940 |archive-date=October 25, 2011|website=Internet Broadway Database|accessdate=May 24, 2010}} On television during this time, between 1994 and 2003, she made four guest appearances in the long-running NBC crime drama Law & Order, each time as a different character.
In 2005, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical,{{cite magazine|first1=Andrew|last1=Gans|first2=Morgan|last2=Allen|first3=Robert|last3=Simonson|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92856-2004-2005-Tony-Nominations-Announced-Spamalot-Garners-14-Nominations |title=2004-2005 Tony Nominations Announced; Spamalot Garners 14 Nominations|magazine=Playbill|date=May 10, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104000201/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92856-2004-2005-Tony-Nominations-Announced-Spamalot-Garners-14-Nominations |archive-date=November 4, 2013 }} for the role of Baroness Bomburst in the stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.{{cite magazine|first=Andrew|last=Gans|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91940-Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-Flies-into-Hilton-Theatre-March-27|title='Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' Flies into Hilton Theatre March 27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015183131/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91940-Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang-Flies-into-Hilton-Theatre-March-27 |archive-date=October 15, 2012 }} She also won the Drama Desk Award for this role.[http://www.dramadesk.com/2004_2005dd.html "Drama Desk awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20080704130154/http://www.dramadesk.com/2004_2005dd.html |date=July 4, 2008 }} Drama Desk, retrieved May 24, 2010 In 2006, she starred in Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane for which she received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress.Hernandez, Ernio.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/96873-Jan-Maxwell-Will-Be-Entertaining-Mr-Sloane-While-Emery-Stays-at-Abigails-Party "Jan Maxwell Will Be Entertaining Mr. Sloane While Emery Stays at Abigail’s Party"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015144249/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/96873-Jan-Maxwell-Will-Be-Entertaining-Mr-Sloane-While-Emery-Stays-at-Abigails-Party |date=October 15, 2012 }} playbill.com, December 16, 2005 Also in 2006, she reunited with her Sound of Music co-star Richard Chamberlain in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I in Honolulu, Hawaii.[http://hawaiiopera.org/about_hot/hot_history/ Hawaii Opera Theatre listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611003330/http://hawaiiopera.org/about_hot/hot_history/ |date=June 11, 2010 }} hawaiiopera.org, retrieved May 24, 2010 In 2007, she starred as Mrs. Lynch in the Broadway production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy at the Imperial Theatre,Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107296-Orphans-Tale-Coram-Boy-Arrives-on-Broadway-April-16 "Orphans' Tale: Coram Boy Arrives on Broadway April 16"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305153428/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107296-Orphans-Tale-Coram-Boy-Arrives-on-Broadway-April-16 |date=March 5, 2011 }} playbill.com, April 16, 2007 for which she received her second Tony Award nomination, for Best Featured Actress in a Play, as well as another Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108083-2006-2007-Tony-Nominations-Announced-Spring-Awakening-Garners-11-Noms "2006-2007 Tony Nominations Announced; Spring Awakening Garners 11 Noms"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200012/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108083-2006-2007-Tony-Nominations-Announced-Spring-Awakening-Garners-11-Noms |date=October 29, 2013 }} playbill.com, May 15, 2007
Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include performances in The Seagull at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985,Gussow, Mel.[http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D06E4DF153BF934A25751C1A963948260 "Theater: 'A Seagull' In Washington"]The New York Times, December 17, 1985 in House & Garden at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2002,Weber, Bruce.[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/arts/theater/22HOUS.html?pagewanted=1 "Review:Indoor-Outdoor Living for the Fleet of Foot"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204146/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/arts/theater/22HOUS.html?pagewanted=1 |date=March 4, 2016 }}The New York Times, May 22, 2002 in A Bad Friend at the Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center in 2003Sommer, Elyse.[http://www.curtainup.com/badfriend.html "Curtain Up Review"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228171252/http://www.curtainup.com/badfriend.html |date=February 28, 2010 }} curtainup.com, June 18, 2003 and at Carnegie Hall in the Stephen Sondheim concert, Opening Doors, in 2004.Gans, Andrew.[http://www1.playbill.com/news/article/88682-Song-List-Announced-for-Sondheims-Opening-Doors-Revue "Song List Announced for Sondheim's Opening Doors Revue"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715093113/http://www1.playbill.com/news/article/88682-Song-List-Announced-for-Sondheims-Opening-Doors-Revue |date=July 15, 2011 }} playbill.com, September 29, 2004.
In 2008 she appeared Off-Broadway with the Potomac Theatre Project/NYC in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution and was nominated for a Drama Desk and NYITT award.Hetrick, Adam.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118518-Maxwell-Will-Perform-Scenes-From-an-Execution-for-Potomac-Theatre-Project "Maxwell Will Perform Scenes From an Execution for Potomac Theatre Project"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015144750/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118518-Maxwell-Will-Perform-Scenes-From-an-Execution-for-Potomac-Theatre-Project |date=October 15, 2012 }} playbill.com, June 10, 2008 In 2008, Maxwell appeared on Broadway in the Manhattan Theater Club production of To Be or Not to Be in the role of Maria Tura at the Friedman Theatre.Jones, Kenneth.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/122235-To-Be-or-Not-To-Be-Dark-Showbiz-Comedy-Opens-on-Broadway-Oct-14 "To Be or Not To Be, Dark Showbiz Comedy, Opens on Broadway Oct. 14"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215155656/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/122235-To-Be-or-Not-To-Be-Dark-Showbiz-Comedy-Opens-on-Broadway-Oct-14 |date=February 15, 2012 }} playbill.com, October 14, 2008
She appeared as Julie Cavendish in the Broadway revival of The Royal Family at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in late 2009.Jones, Kenneth. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/135241-Royal-Family-Ends-Its-Broadway-Reign-Dec.-13 "'Royal Family' Ends Its Broadway Reign Dec. 13"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216072000/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/135241-Royal-Family-Ends-Its-Broadway-Reign-Dec.-13 |date=December 16, 2009 }} Playbill.com, December 13, 2009 For this role she won the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139754-Red-Memphis-Bridge-Fences-and-La-Cage-Win-Drama-Desk-Awards "Red, Memphis, Bridge, Fences and La Cage Win Drama Desk Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302184836/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139754-Red-Memphis-Bridge-Fences-and-La-Cage-Win-Drama-Desk-Awards |date=March 2, 2014 }} Playbill.com, May 23, 2010 Maxwell starred as Maria in the Broadway revival of Lend Me a Tenor, which began performances at the Music Box Theatre on March 11, 2010.Hetrick, Adam. [https://archive.today/20120906173054/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/135382-_Tucci_to_Direct_LaPaglia%20Shalhoub%20 Maxwell_and_More_in_Lend_Me_a_Tenor_Broadway_Revival "Maxwell and More in 'Lend Me a Tenor' Broadway Revival"] Playbill.com, December 17, 2009
She won the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for this role.Hetrick, Adam. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139867-60th-Annual-Outer-Critics-Circle-Awards-Presented-May-27 "60th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Presented May 27"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601165758/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139867-60th-Annual-Outer-Critics-Circle-Awards-Presented-May-27 |date=June 1, 2010 }} Playbill.com, May 27, 2010 Maxwell received two 2010 Tony Award nominations: one for her leading role in The Royal Family in 2009Haun, Harry. [http://www.playbill.com/features/article/133219-Climbing-The-Royal-Family-Tree "Climbing The Royal Family Tree"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015145547/http://www.playbill.com/features/article/133219-Climbing-The-Royal-Family-Tree |date=October 15, 2012 }} Playbill.com, September 26, 2009 and another for her featured role in Lend Me a Tenor in 2010.Hetrick, Adam.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/137755-Lend-Me-a-Tenor-with-LaPaglia-Shalhoub-Bartha-and-Maxwell-Returns-to-Broadway " 'Lend Me a Tenor', with LaPaglia, Shalhoub, Bartha and Maxwell, Returns to Broadway"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416012748/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/137755-Lend-Me-a-Tenor-with-LaPaglia-Shalhoub-Bartha-and-Maxwell-Returns-to-Broadway |date=April 16, 2010 }} Playbill.com, March 12, 2010 She is only the fourth actress to receive double nominations in a single year.[http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html?promo=Tumblr0504010 Tony Awards, 2010 nominations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100509080833/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html?promo=Tumblr0504010 |date=May 9, 2010 }} Tonyawards.com, retrieved May 24, 2010Hernandez, Ernio. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139269-Twice-Thrice-as-Nice-Jones-Cork-Maxwell-Scott-and-More-Earn-Multiple-Nominations "Twice/Thrice as Nice: Jones, Cork, Maxwell, Scott and More Earn Multiple Nominations"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100510020848/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/139269-Twice-Thrice-as-Nice-Jones-Cork-Maxwell-Scott-and-More-Earn-Multiple-Nominations |date=May 10, 2010 }} Playbill.com, May 4, 2010
Maxwell played the role of Phyllis Rogers Stone in the Kennedy Center production of the Stephen Sondheim–James Goldman musical Follies, running from May 7 to June 19, 2011, at the Eisenhower Theater in Washington, DC. Her co-stars were Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, Ron Raines and Danny Burstein. She reprised her role in the Broadway limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre, 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 fibula. She missed the following two shows, but was back a few days later.[http://broadwayworld.com/article/FOLLIES-Star-Jan-Maxwell-Hit-by-Minivan-Misses-Weekend-Shows-2011103 "'Follies' Star Jan Maxwell Hit by Minivan Misses Weekend Shows] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503184500/http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/FOLLIES-Star-Jan-Maxwell-Hit-by-Minivan-Misses-Weekend-Shows-2011103 |date=May 3, 2014 }} broadwayworld.com, October 2011 Maxwell received Helen Hayes, Fred Astaire, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Tony Award 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 Angela Lansbury. Maxwell reprised her role in this production's transfer to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California from May 3 to June 9, 2012.Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/158790-Hey-LA-Were-Coming-Your-Way-Follies-Ends-Broadway-Run-Jan-22 "Hey, L.A., We're Coming Your Way: 'Follies' Ends Broadway Run Jan. 22"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124022306/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/158790-Hey-LA-Were-Coming-Your-Way-Follies-Ends-Broadway-Run-Jan-22 |date=January 24, 2012 }} playbill.com, January 22, 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.Gates, Anita.[http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/theater/reviews/jan-maxwell-in-victory-choices-in-reaction-review.html "Theater Review.Puritan Widow Confronts a Randy, Profane King"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630030253/http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/theater/reviews/jan-maxwell-in-victory-choices-in-reaction-review.html |date=June 30, 2012 }} The New York Times, July 20, 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.Purcell, Carey. [https://archive.today/20130915163727/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/177462-Jan-Maxwell-and-Jennifer-Van-Dyck-to-Star-in-PTP-NYC-Season-at-Atlantic-Stage-2 "Jan Maxwell and Jennifer Van Dyck to Star in PTP/NYC Season at Atlantic Stage 2"] April 30, playbill.com She appeared in the Off-Broadway production of the Anthony Giardina play, The City of Conversation at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater, from May 5, 2014, to July 26, 2014. She was nominated for the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Actress in a Play, the 2015 Drama Desk Award, Best Actress in a Play and 2015 Drama League Award, Distinguished Performance Award.[http://www.lct.org/shows/the-city-of-conversation/ " The City of Conversation Listing"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524061748/http://www.lct.org/shows/the-city-of-conversation/ |date=May 24, 2015 }} lct.org, accessed May 18, 2015BWW News Desk. [http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/THE-CITY-OF-CONVERSATION-Starring-Jan-Maxwell-Ends-its-Twice-Extended-Run-Today-20140726 " 'The City Of Conversation', Starring Jan Maxwell, Ends its Twice Extended Run Today"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080731/http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/THE-CITY-OF-CONVERSATION-Starring-Jan-Maxwell-Ends-its-Twice-Extended-Run-Today-20140726 |date=May 24, 2015 }} broadwayworld.com, July 26, 2014 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.{{Cite web|title = Jan Maxwell talks about her latest role Off Broadway—and why it will be her last|url = https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/jan-maxwell-talks-about-her-latest-role-off-broadwayand-why-it-will-be-her-last|website = Time Out New York|access-date = January 7, 2016|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160401075033/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/jan-maxwell-talks-about-her-latest-role-off-broadwayand-why-it-will-be-her-last|archive-date = April 1, 2016|df = mdy-all}}
She was also a voice actress and read several audio books, including Mary Higgins Clark's Two Little Girls in Blue[http://books.simonandschuster.com/Two-Little-Girls-in-Blue/Mary-Higgins-Clark/9780743598675 "Mary Higgins Clark 'Two Little Girls in Blue' audio book listing"]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=The Rambling Man |fix-attempted=yes }} SimonAndSchuster.com, retrieved May 25, 2010 and No Place Like Home.[http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Jan_Maxwell.html "Listing of Maxwell audio books"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608021345/http://www.allbookstores.com/author/Jan_Maxwell.html |date=June 8, 2011 }} AllBookStores.com, retrieved May 25, 2010
Maxwell starred as a "scheming Senator" in the CBS TV series BrainDead alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Tveit and Tony Shalhoub, which aired from June to September 2016.Ryan, Maureen. [https://variety.com/2016/tv/reviews/braindead-cbs-review-robert-michelle-king-mary-elizabeth-winstead-1201794627/ "TV Review: ‘BrainDead’"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927034639/http://variety.com/2016/tv/reviews/braindead-cbs-review-robert-michelle-king-mary-elizabeth-winstead-1201794627/ |date=September 27, 2017 }} Variety, June 13, 2016Patten, Dominic. [https://deadline.com/2016/06/braindead-review-the-good-wife-creators-mary-elizabeth-winstead-cbs-video-1201769225/ " ‘BrainDead’ Review: ‘Good Wife’ Creators’ D.C. Satire Delightfully Wacky"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628202910/http://deadline.com/2016/06/braindead-review-the-good-wife-creators-mary-elizabeth-winstead-cbs-video-1201769225/ |date=June 28, 2016 }} Deadline, June 8, 2016
Personal life and death
Maxwell was married to actor and playwright Robert Emmet Lunney,{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/ns/jan-maxwell-obituary/188163276|title=Jan Maxwell Obituary|publisher=Legacy}} and they had a son William "Will" Maxwell-Lunney.Marks, Peter. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jan-maxwells-follies-philosophy-bring-it-on/2011/05/01/AFE3yJcF_story.html# "Jan Maxwell's 'Follies' philosophy? Bring it on."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817162304/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jan-maxwells-follies-philosophy-bring-it-on/2011/05/01/AFE3yJcF_story.html |date=August 17, 2016 }} The Washington Post, May 2, 2011
Maxwell died on February 11, 2018, from leptomeningeal carcinomatosis complicated from breast cancer at her Manhattan apartment at the age of 61.[https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Star-Jan-Maxwell-Dies-at-61-20180211 "Jan Maxwell Dies at 61"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212084404/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Star-Jan-Maxwell-Dies-at-61-20180211 |date=February 12, 2018 }} broadwayworld.com, February 11, 2018McPhee, Ryan. [http://www.playbill.com/article/jan-maxwell-a-five-time-tony-award-nominee-dies-at-61# "Jan Maxwell, a Five-Time Tony Award Nominee, Dies at 61"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212084404/http://www.playbill.com/article/jan-maxwell-a-five-time-tony-award-nominee-dies-at-61 |date=February 12, 2018 }} Playbill, February 11, 2018{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/jan-maxwell-acclaimed-stage-actress-is-dead-at-61.html|title=Jan Maxwell, Celebrated Stage Actress, Dies at 61|work=The New York Times|date=February 12, 2018|access-date=February 12, 2018}}
Awards and nominations
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! Year ! Category ! Nominated work ! Result |
| align="center"| 2003
| rowspan="2"|Drama Desk Award | rowspan="2"|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | My Old Lady | {{nominated}} |
| align="center"| 2004
| Sixteen Wounded | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2005
| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical | rowspan="2"| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="2"|Drama Desk Award
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | {{won}} |
| align="center"| 2006
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Entertaining Mr. Sloane | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2007
| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play | rowspan="2"| Coram Boy | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="3"|Drama Desk Award
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | {{nominated}} |
| align="center"| 2009
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Scenes From an Execution | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 2010
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | rowspan="2"| The Royal Family | {{won}} |
| rowspan="3"|Tony Award
| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play | {{nominated}} |
| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
| {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 2012
| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical | rowspan="2"| Follies | {{nominated}} |
| rowspan="3"| Drama Desk Award
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | {{nominated}} |
| align="center"| 2014
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | The Castle | {{nominated}} |
| align="center"| 2015
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | The City of Conversation | {{nominated}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0561720|Jan Maxwell}}
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121023040912/http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/jan_maxwell Career listing at American Theatre Wing]
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