Acting
Community Rating
6.3
TMDB estimate
Born
April 7, 1951 (age 75)
Born in
New York City, New York, USA
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart. Born in 1951 in New York City, Ian entered the American folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-1960s. Most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child, with a total of ten nominations in eight different categories. Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
as Self
2025

Getting On
as Mrs. Belfontaine
2013

Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
as Self (archive footage)
2007

The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974
as Self (archive footage)
2007

Tokyo: The Last War
as Theme Song Performance
1989

Freedom
as Songs
1981

Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
as Self (archive footage)
1979

The Album on the Shore
as Theme Song Performance
1977

Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975

Dinah!
as Self
1974

Rock Concert
as Self
1973

Four Rode Out
as The Singer, Original Music Composer
1969

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
as Self
1967

Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
as Self
1967

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962

The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961