Personal Info
Birth date
1947-08-05 (77 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Westminster, London, England, UK
Also known as
جن فرانسیس
Jan Francis
Biography
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Filmography
Unforgotten
7.562
Overview:
London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.Play for Today
6.333
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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.Heartbeat
7.125
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Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Pebble Mill
3.1
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Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on October 14, 1991. The show was a mixture of celebrity guests and music. Alan Titchmarsh was a presenter on the show throughout it's complete run. Other presenters included Judi Spiers, Gloria Hunniford and Ross King.Bad Girls
7.6
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Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series was broadcast in 17 countries and was produced by Shed Productions, the company which later produced Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road. It is set in the fictional women's prison of Larkhall, and features a mixture of serious and light storylines focusing on the prisoners and staff of G Wing. From 2010, the UK broadcast rights were bought by CBS Drama, and is repeated regularly – as of September 2012, the channel is re-running the series again in a late-night time slot.Doctor in Charge
6
Overview:
Doctor in Charge is a British television comedy series based on a set of books by Richard Gordon about the misadventures of a group of doctors. The series follows directly from its predecessor Doctor at Large, and was produced by London Weekend Television in 1972-73. Writers for the Doctor in Charge episodes were David Askey, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, George Layton, Jonathan Lynn, Bernard McKenna, Bill Oddie, Phil Redmond and Gail Renard.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
6.4
Overview:
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.Stay Lucky
6
Overview:
Drama about a small-time gangster Thomas Gynn (Dennis Waterman) from London who discovers a new life up north in Yorkshire. Helping widowed, self-sufficient businesswoman Sally Hardcastle (Jan Francis) when her car breaks down on the motorway, Thomas reluctantly accepts an offer of a lift to Leeds. Over the coming months, the two become involved in a series of misadventures that soon find them being drawn closer together.New Tricks
7.4
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New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.Target
6.5
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A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.Just Good Friends
6.571
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A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.The Good Companions
NYR
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Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on the ragged edges of show business. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.Fall of Eagles
6.8
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"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).Next of Kin
6.375
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Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.The Hanged Man
5.5
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After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.Spark
5.5
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Following the death of his long time terminally ill mother, Ashley, enthusiastically aided and abetted by his sister-in-law, Colette, decides that he needs a wife if only for something to do with his big, now empty house. However, the task of finding a wife turns out to be not as easy as it seems, as Ashley has not had much contact with women in recent years and then there is always the delicate problem of the dull, safe, ever present Gillian to be solved. She and her mother have already settled the question of a wife for Ashley if only Gillian would do something about it!!Secret Army
7.5
Overview:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.Bloodlines
7
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When a young serving police officer's father is released from jail after serving a sentence for murder, her investigations into his crime take her on a dark voyage of discovery.The Long Chase
NYR
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Tom Corby and his son John are bird watching, by the cliffs, when he spots a number of strangers. John goes to help a girl cut off from land. When he returns his dad has vanished.Mistresses
5.9
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Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.Ripping Yarns
7.4
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A British television comedy series, written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Following an initial pilot episode in January 1976, it ran for two subsequent series of five and three episodes in October 1977 and October 1979 respectively. Each episode had a different setting and characters, looking at a different aspect of British culture and parodying pre-World War II literature aimed at schoolboys.Doctor Otter
NYR
Overview:
Doctor Otter is a stop-motion animated series produced by Ealing Animation and Cosgrove Hall. It was shown on CBeebies during 2001. There were 3 seasons in all.Raffles
8
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Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".Acting
2022Dracula Unearthed as Mina Van Helsing (archive footage)
2018Next of Kin (2 Episodes) as Elspeth
2015Unforgotten (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Reunited as Anita
2010Reunited (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009U Be Dead as Irene Pemberton
2008Mistresses (2 Episodes) as Julia
2007That's What I Call Television (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Bloodlines (2 Episodes) as Elaine Hopkin
2004The Alan Clark Diaries (1 Episode) as Unknown
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as June Parker
2001Doctor Otter (26 Episodes) as Raylee (voice)
1999Bad Girls (1 Episode) as Catherine Earlham
1997Spark (6 Episodes) as Colette
1995Ghostbusters of East Finchley (6 Episodes) as Grace
1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Vivienne Keen
1991Pebble Mill (1 Episode) as Self
1989Stay Lucky (27 Episodes) as Sally Hardcastle
1984The Corvini Inheritance as Eva Bailey
1984Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1 Episode) as Eva Bailey
1984Champions as Jo Beswick
1983Just Good Friends (22 Episodes) as Penny Warrender
1980The Good Companions (9 Episodes) as Susie Dean
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Sarah Bates
1979Roger of the Raj as Miranda
1979Dracula as Mina Van Helsing
1979Casting the Runes as Prudence Dunning
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Leila
1977Give Us a Kiss, Christabel as Christabel
1977Target (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Secret Army (17 Episodes) as Lisa 'Yvette' Colbert
1977Raffles (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Practical Experience as Judy
1976Ripping Yarns (1 Episode) as Miranda
1975The Hanged Man (1 Episode) as Captain Jane Ashley
1974Fall of Eagles (1 Episode) as Kschessinska
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Judy
1974The Lonely Man's Lover as Lizzie
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as Gillie Randall
1972The Long Chase (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1972Doctor in Charge (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965BBC Play of the Month (1, 1 Episode) as Lady Maria, Grace Harkaway