Acting

Jan Carey

Born

1941-01-07 (85)

Place of birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

Jan Carey was born on 7 January 1941 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for The Main Chance (1969), Killing Eve (2018) and Letters from the Dead (1968).

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

ITV Playhouse poster
7.0

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

ITV Playhouse

1967

Waking the Dead poster
7.2

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Waking the Dead

2001

Killing Eve poster
7.9

A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.

Killing Eve

2018

ITV Saturday Night Theatre poster
7.0

Anthology series of dramatic works.

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

1969

I, Claudius poster
7.8

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.

I, Claudius

1976

The Main Chance poster
8.2

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

The Main Chance

1969

Ghosts poster
8.0

British anthology series of ghost stories.

Ghosts

1995

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NR

An anthology drama produced by Associated Television (ATV), focusing on the emotional struggles and complex moral situations of characters trapped in difficult or inescapable circumstances.

Trapped

1967