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Janis Ian
Janis Ian

Janis Ian

ActingBorn April 7, 1951 (age 75)New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart. Born in 1951 in New York City, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories. Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.

Filmography

2013
Getting On

as Mrs. Belfontaine

TV
2007
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1979
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Musical Guest

TV
1974
Dinah!

as Self

TV
1973TV
1969
Four Rode Out

as The Singer

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayApril 7, 1951
Place of BirthNew York City, New York, USA
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