In feature films, actress Jennifer Elise Cox is best known for her funny, fractured performance as perennially slighted middle child Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel. Before making her film debut in the former, Cox had experience on stage, including appearances in two operas in New York, Don Giovanni and Madame Butterfly, and has guest starred on television series, including Murphy Brown and Wings.
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- Began her career as a ballerina with stage performances in New York in Don Giovanni and Madama Butterfly.
- Made money by scooping ice cream at Ben & Jerry's and playing cards while starting out her acting career.
- Despite playing middle sister Jan in The Brady Brunch Movie, is actually older than Christine Taylor, who played eldest sister Marcia.
- A student of Method Acting, she and Taylor stayed in character on the set of The Brady Bunch Movie.