Jan Harvey
Encyclopedia
Jan Harvey is an English
actress.
Harvey is possibly best known for her starring role as Jan Howard in the British
TV drama
Howards' Way
, from 1985–90, in which she ran a fashion boutique named Periplus. The boutique specialised in the sale of aprés sail wear and was also the first UK headquarters of the German mail order franchise, Die Spitze.
During the 1990s, Harvey appeared in the action series Bugs
, and more recently was a regular cast member in the Five soap opera
Family Affairs
(in which she played Babs Woods). She has also guest starred in many other high profile British dramas including A Touch of Frost
, Inspector Morse
and Lovejoy
.
Jan Harvey starred in the 2010 UK tour of Calendar Girls and is set to appear in a second run of the show in late 2011.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress.
Harvey is possibly best known for her starring role as Jan Howard in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
TV drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
Howards' Way
Howards' Way
Howards' Way is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC One between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the yachting and business communities in the fictional town of Tarrant on the South Coast of...
, from 1985–90, in which she ran a fashion boutique named Periplus. The boutique specialised in the sale of aprés sail wear and was also the first UK headquarters of the German mail order franchise, Die Spitze.
During the 1990s, Harvey appeared in the action series Bugs
Bugs (TV series)
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers...
, and more recently was a regular cast member in the Five soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Family Affairs
Family Affairs
Family Affairs was a British soap opera broadcast on Five, from 1997 to 2005. It was the second programme to be broadcast on the channel on 30 March 1997, the channel's launch night...
(in which she played Babs Woods). She has also guest starred in many other high profile British dramas including A Touch of Frost
A Touch of Frost (TV series)
A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
, Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse (TV series)
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....
and Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...
.
Jan Harvey starred in the 2010 UK tour of Calendar Girls and is set to appear in a second run of the show in late 2011.