Jane How

Jane How is an English actress with credits across television, film and theater. Born in London in 1950, she studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, received the Rodney Millington Award, and worked for several years in regional theater before her screen debut. Her first screen appearance came with the 1973 Doctor Who serial Planet of the Daleks. She is best known as Jan Hammond, Den Watts's mistress in EastEnders, a role she played regularly from 1986 to 1987 and returned to briefly in 2002 and 2003. Her television work also includes The Spoils of War, A.D., the sitcom Don't Wait Up, and Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After, in which she portrayed Camilla Parker Bowles. She appeared in the films A Good Woman (2004) and Miss Potter (2006). On stage, she performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was in the original West End cast of Don't Dress for Dinner.