New York, Feb 18 (TNS): Famous American stage actress John Maxwell has deceased at the age of 61.
According to the details, John died in her home at the age of 61, she was suffering from breast cancer since 2006.
Jan Maxwell, the fiercely passionate, adoringly reviewed New York stage actress who earned five Tony Award nominations in seven years, including two in one season, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan.
The death was confirmed by her husband, the actor and playwright Robert Emmet Lunney, who said the cause, was leptomeningeal disease, a consequence of her struggle with breast cancer. She received the original cancer diagnosis in 2006, he said and learned that it had returned, in metastatic form, in 2013.
Ms. Maxwell announced her retirement from the stage in 2015, telling Time Out magazine that it was because “the kinds of roles I was being offered were just — I’d been there and done that.” Her last performance was as Galactica, a 16th-century Venetian painter who fights back when her art angers the government, in “Scenes From an Execution,” at Atlantic Stage 2 in Chelsea.
“It is probably my favorite role,” Ms. Maxwell said in the same interview. “She’s so mean, so ruthless. I love that she’s such a hard-core genius.”
Janice Elaine Maxwell was born on Nov. 20, 1956, in Fargo, N.D., the fifth of six children of Ralph B. Maxwell, a district court judge, and the former Elizabeth Fargusson, who later became an Environmental Protection Agency lawyer.
Ms. Maxwell attended Minnesota State University Moorhead, which was across the North Dakota state line only one mile from home. She left college just short of graduation and, with $2,000 from her parents, moved to New York.
“I think I probably stared at a wall for three months, and I spent the next 10 years being scared,” she told The Washington Post in 2011 when “Follies” was at the Kennedy Center.
