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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 7, 1951
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Janis Eddy Fink
Janis Ian
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.5
Self
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
6.3
Mrs. Belfontaine
Getting On
2013
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
2007
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974
2007
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979
7.0
Self - Musical Guest
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.7
Self
Dinah!
1974
8.0
Self
Rock Concert
1973
3.6
The Singer
Four Rode Out
1969
0.0
Self
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
1967
Credits
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
as Self
2025
7.5
Getting On
as Mrs. Belfontaine
2013
6.3
Countdown - The Wonder Years 2
as Self (archive footage)
2007
8.0
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1974
as Self (archive footage)
2007
0.0
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
as Self (archive footage)
1979
0.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Rock Concert
as Self
1973
8.0
Four Rode Out
as The Singer
1969
3.6
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
as Self
1967
0.0
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
as Self
1967
0.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4