The Biography

Jan Hoag (born Janet Vilhauer, September 19, 1948, in Portland, Oregon) is an American actress who graduated from Holy Child Academy and Oregon State University with a degree in business. She worked in sales management for the May Company in Southern California before being inspired to act after attending theatre productions in Los Angeles, and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute to study acting. She began her career in 1987 with a guest spot on Married... with Children and has since accumulated over 80 film and television credits as a character actress. Her most notable film credits include Candy in The Dentist (1996, directed by Brian Yuzna), Choir Director in Christmas with the Kranks (2004, with Tim Allen), Neighbor in Evan Almighty (2007, with Steve Carell), Receptionist in Faster (2010, with Dwayne Johnson), Annette in Wild (2014, with Reese Witherspoon), Toby's Mother in Destroyer (2018, with Nicole Kidman), and Nona in The Fabelmans (2022, directed by Steven Spielberg). On television she is best known as Ms. Agatha Bean in Scream Queens (2015, 3 episodes), Rose in The Young Pope (2016, 2 episodes), and Carol in Big Shot (2021–2022), with additional credits in Mad Men (2008), The Big Bang Theory (2012), Shameless (2014), Criminal Minds (2009), The Middle (2011), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002), Boston Legal (2006), Melrose Place (1995), How I Met Your Father (2023), Grey's Anatomy (2023), and Young Sheldon (2023).