Jan holden biography

All All. Sign In. Jan Holden Actress. Jan Holden was a stage actress with a reputation for light comedy, who also appeared in several popular television series during the s and s. She was elegant and pretty, with pale blue eyes.

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She grew up in Cawnpore in India and was educated at a school in the hills near Simla. She holidayed with her schoolfriends. He disapproved of his daughter's theatrical ambitions. He eventually relented and allowed her to take a directors' course at the Old Vic. She was one of two pupils selected to become assistant stage managers at the Old Vic upon its reopening in Jan Holden appeared in repertory, where she met her first husband, actor Edwin Richfield.