Jan Miner

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-10-15 (87 years old)

Deathday

2004-02-15

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jan Miner

Biography

Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing detergent television commercials from the 1960s to the 1990s. Janice Miner was the daughter of a dentist and a painter, and had three brothers, Sheldon, Donald and Lyndsey. She studied at the Vesper George School of Art in her native Boston, then studied acting under Lee Strasberg and others. She made her stage debut in 1945 in a Boston production of Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Miner then became established on radio, and worked through the 1950s in several series simultaneously. Among other ro...

Acting

1974

Lenny

as Sally Marr

1981

Endless Love

as Mrs. Switzer

1980

F.D.R.: The Last Year

as Cousin Daisy

1989

Used Innocence

as Laurie Bembenek

1987

1968

The Swimmer

as Lillian Hunsacker

1980

Willie & Phil

as Maria Kaufman

1990

Mermaids

as Mother Superior

1990

Stood Up!

as Mrs. Abbott

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