Jan Hoag
Biography
Jan Hoag is an American film and television actress who trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1948, she worked in retail management before moving to Southern California and enrolling in acting classes. She began appearing on television in the early 1990s and has since built a long list of guest spots on series such as Murder, She Wrote, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, Boston Legal and Mad Men, usually in minor parts. She had recurring roles on 8 Simple Rules, Scream Queens, where she played Agatha Bean, and Big Shot. Her first major feature role was in the slasher film The Dentist (1996), and she later appeared in Progeny (1998), Wild (2014), Destroyer (2018) and Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022).
78years old
Turns 79 on September 19in 313 days
- Born Portland
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 20 years1998 to 2018
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Early training
Jan Hoag left a sales management career to study acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute after seeing theater productions in Los Angeles.
A change of course
Hoag worked in managerial positions at Meier and Frank, a department store based in Portland, before she took a sales management position in Southern California.
First role
Jan Hoag's first major feature film role came in The Dentist, a slasher film directed by Brian Yuzna, which was released in 1996.
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George Tillman Jr.Director, 1 film, 2010
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Jon TurteltaubDirector, 1 film, 2000
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