Janet Carroll

Jane Carr came to America with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Nicholas Nickleby in 1986. She had an early success with the TV Series “Dear John” and has worked extensively on TV ever since, most recently in “How I Met Your Mother,” “Two and a Half Men” and “The Closer.” Jane appeared in many plays with the Royal Shakespeare Company and The National Theatre of Great Britain. In the US she has trod the boards in Lettice and Lovage, Noises Off, She Stoops to Folly, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Blithe Spirit, Sylvia, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Habeas Corpus, The Cider House Rules, Stuff Happens, A Small Family Business and recently in Pride and Prejudice. She completed a 3 year run on Broadway playing Mrs. Brill in Mary Poppins. She has also had a lovely voice-over career: she is Pud’n on the cartoon show “The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy,” Mama Cosma in “The Fairly Odd Parents,” Grandma Fletcher in “Phineas and Ferb” and Ann and Dan Chovie in “Fish Hooks.”