By Linda Loons
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Eve Aline Plumb (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress, singer and painter. She is best known for portraying the middle daughter Jan Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch.
A native of Southern California, Plumb began appearing in commercials at age seven, and also had guest roles on the televisions series Family Affair, The Big Valley and The Virginian between 1966 and 1967. She was cast as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch in 1969, and portrayed the role until the series’ end in 1974. After, Plumb continued to work in television, portraying a teenage prostitute in the NBC television film Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), and as Elizabeth March in the 1978 miniseries Little Women.
Plumb continued to reprise her role as Jan Brady in numerous reunion series and films, including The Brady Brides (1981) and A Very Brady Christmas (1988). She made her feature film debut with a minor role in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), and later appeared in Gregg Araki‘s black comedy Nowhere (1997). In 2010, Plumb made her New York stage debut in Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage, followed by stage productions of Nora Ephron‘s Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Same Time, Next Year. She subsequently had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed thriller Blue Ruin (2013).
PERSONAL LIFE
Plumb has been painting for more than two decades and has enjoyed success at select galleries across the United States.
Plumb was the first of the Brady siblings to marry, and the first divorced. She first tied the knot with Rick Mansfield in 1979. The marriage ended in divorce less than two years later. Plumb has been married to Ken Pace, a business and technology consultant, since 1995.
As of 2010, she resided in Laguna Beach, California, and served on the city’s Design Review Board. Around 2010, Plumb purchased a residence in Manhattan, and had made New York City her primary residence as of 2019, though she divides her time between there and Los Angeles.
In 2016, she sold the Malibu home that she had purchased at the age of 11 in 1969. She bought the 1950s beach bungalow for $55,000 and sold it for $3.9 million.
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Born
- William Hearst (editor/publisher) –
- Duke Ellington (musician) –
- Hirohito (emperor of Japan) –
- Fred Zinnemann (director of film) –
- Willie Nelson (country singer) –
- Dale Earnhardt (race car driver) –
- Jerry Seinfeld (comedian & actor) –
- Daniel Day-Lewis (actor) –
- Eve Plumb (actress) –
- Carnie Wilson (singer) –
- Uma Thurman (actress) –
- Andre Agassi (tennis player) –
Died
- Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker) –
- William J. Bell (writer and producer) –
- Bob Hoskins (actor) –
Events
- Jacob Hummel received patent for varnish of elastic gum–
- Theta Xi, first professional fraternity, founded, Troy, New York–
- A landslide in Frank, Alberta, killed at least 70 people–
- U.S. president Hoover received King and Queen of Siam–
- Prisoners liberated at Dachau–
- ABC’s Wide World of Sports premiered–
- Proposed Newfoundland flag design was revealed–
- The first condor to be conceived in captivity hatched at the San Diego Wild Animal Park helping to bring the species back from the brink of extinction–
- The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., opened to the public–
- A perfect pink ring around the Sun was visible for several hours from Key Largo to Key West, Florida. It’s known as the rare halo phenomenon, a refraction of light through multiple layers of ice-crystal clouds in the upper levels of the atmosphere. A halo usually indicates that rain is on the way.–
- Prince William married Catherine Middleton–
- Mikah Meyer completed a 3-year journey to visit all 419 U.S. National Park Service sites–
Weather
- 2.4 inches of rain fell within 15 minutes in Taylor, Texas–
- Weather device TOTO hit by weak tornado–
- A storm produced a flash of lightning that stretched a horizontal distance of 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The event set a world record for the longest single lightning bolt. –
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