
Janis Ian
Actor
- Born
- April 7, 1951 (age 75) · 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.
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Ian is also a columnist and science fiction author.
Known for
Acting6
- 2025Janis Ian: Breaking Silence as Self
- 2007Countdown - The Wonder Years 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 2007The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974 as Self (archive footage)
- 1979Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip as Self (archive footage)
- 1969Four Rode Out as The Singer
- 1967Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution as Self
Behind the camera3
- 1989Tokyo: The Last War Theme Song Performance
- 1981Freedom Songs





