Born
Occupations
Known for
Two-time kidnapping victim
Notable work
Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story
Spouse
Larry Felt
Children
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Jan Broberg Felt (July 31, 1962)[1] is an American actress, singer, dancer, and kidnapping victim.
As a child, Broberg was kidnapped on two occasions by a family friend, at ages twelve and fourteen. The experience has been documented in her mother Mary Ann Broberg's book, Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story, the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, and the drama miniseries A Friend of the Family.
Broberg was born on July 31, 1962, in Pocatello, Idaho, to Robert "Bob" Broberg and Mary Ann Broberg. She was the couple's first child, and she was followed by two younger sisters, Karen and Susan.
Broberg has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Some of her film credits are Slaughter of the Innocents (HBO), The Poof Point (Disney), Message in a Cell Phone (Disney), The Secret Keeper (Columbia TriStar), Bug Off, Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets (Columbia TriStar), Mobsters and Mormons, and The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey. She also played the mother of the main character in Baptists at Our Barbecue,[2] and co-starred with Elijah WoodinManiac.
Broberg has appeared in many television series, including: Touched by an Angel (CBS), Promised Land (CBS), Remember Me (PBS), Death Row (PBS), The Man With Three Wives (the Norman Grayson story), Harmful Intent (NBC), Siege at Marion (NBC), Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (CBS), Ancient Secrets of the Bible (CBS Miniseries). Perhaps her most notable role was in the WB series Everwood as Nurse Louise.[3]
Broberg has had stage roles in the following: The Sound of Music (Tuacahn Theatre), I Do! I Do! (Sundance Theatre), Jane Eyre (Glendale Center), My Fair Lady (Scera Theatre), Carousel (Idaho State University), Trixie True, Teen Detective (BYU), No No Nanette (Playmill), and appeared with and directed for St. George Musical Theater.[4][5]
In 2017, Broberg was executive director for the Kayenta Arts Foundation and Center for the Arts at KayentainIvins, Utah.[4][6][7][8]
Broberg helped produce A Friend of the Family,[9]aPeacock drama TV series about her life.[10]
Broberg was kidnapped when she was twelve,[3] and again when she was fourteen, both times by Robert Berchtold,[11][12] a friend of the family, who had sexual encounters with both parents.[3][13] On October 30, 2003, she and her mother Mary Ann published a book titled Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story which completely omitted her father's sexual involvement with the perpetrator.[14][15] Broberg's story was the feature of the true crime documentary Abducted in Plain Sight. Filmed and produced over a three-year period, it was released in January 2019.[16] Robert Berchtold committed suicide in 2005 following news that another prosecution for his crimes was imminent.[17][18]
She has a son from a previous marriage.[19]
In 2008, in St. George, Utah, the Local Chapter of National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs recognized, as the 2008 Women of Achievement, ten women, including Broberg.[20]
In 2017, Broberg spoke to the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce Chamber inspiration luncheon, and the Hurricane Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon.[21][22]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2022
Jan's psychologist
Mini series; also producer
The Gabby Petito Story
Attorney
TV movie
2020
Holly & Ivy
Librarian
TV movie
Behind You
Beth
Movie
2019
Check Inn to Christmas
Evelyn Mason
TV movie
The Road Home for Christmas
Maggie
TV movie
Love, Fall & Order
Margie Wright
TV movie
2017–2019
Bonnie
3 episodes
2018
Dick Dickster
Coco Hart
Movie
Chasing Bullit
Julian
Movie
2017
Self
Documentary
2015
Sandra
Movie
Josh's Mom
Movie
More Than Words
Allison Murphy
Short
Alone in the Dust
Sarah
Short
They Want Dick Dickster
Coco Hart
Movie
Sangre Negra
Judge Blake
1 episode
2014
Happy Medium
Mother
Short
Royanna
Movie
Uberta (singing voice)
Direct-to-DVD
Meredith Tanner
Movie
2013
Lauren Morrison
1 episode
The Flipside (TV Series short)
1 episode
Mrs. Herlihy
Senior Technician
Movie
My Only Son
Rhonda Porter
Short
2012
Dreamcatchers
Vida
Short
Rita
Movie
40 (TV series)
Charlotte Pefferele
Hysterical Wife
Movie
2009
Reality Hell
Jan Bloom
1 episode
2007
Aunt Corrine
Movie
2002–2006
Nurse Louise[3]
32 episodes
2005
Louise Means
Movie
2004
Tartan's Mom
Movie
Paradise
Rachel Dove
TV movie
2003
The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey
Movie
Clubhouse Detectives in Scavenger Hunt
Elaine
Movie
2002
Clubhouse Detectives in Big Trouble
Elaine
Movie
Clubhouse Detectives in Search of a Lost Princess
Elaine
Movie
2001
Caroline Lindstrom
Movie
Corky
Bug Off!
Mom
Movie
Hannah Marston
1 episode
2000
Message in a Cell Phone
Jess
Movie
1999
Reporter
1 episode
1996
Nadir
Connie
Movie
1993
The ButterCream Gang in Secret of Treasure Mountain
Minnie
Direct-to-Video
Harmful Intent
Shelia
TV movie
Cindy Lockerby
Movie
The Man with Three Wives
Mother
TV movie
1992
Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View
TV movie
In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Heidi Swapp
TV movie
