Jan Broberg


Jan Broberg Felt is an American actress, singer, dancer, and kidnapping survivor.
As a child, Broberg was kidnapped on two occasions by a family friend, at ages 12 and 14. 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.

Career

Broberg has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Some of her film credits are Slaughter of the Innocents, The Poof Point, Message in a Cell Phone, The Secret Keeper, Bug Off, Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets, 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, and co-starred with Elijah Wood in Maniac.
Broberg has appeared in many television series, including: Touched by an Angel, Promised Land, Remember Me, Death Row, The Man With Three Wives, Harmful Intent, Siege at Marion, Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View, Ancient Secrets of the Bible. Perhaps her most notable role was in the WB series Everwood as Nurse Louise.
Broberg has had stage roles in the following: The Sound of Music, I Do! I Do!, Jane Eyre, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Trixie True, Teen Detective, No No Nanette, and appeared with and directed for St. George Musical Theater.
In 2017, Broberg was executive director for the Kayenta Arts Foundation and Center for the Arts at Kayenta in Ivins, Utah.
Broberg helped produce A Friend of the Family, a Peacock drama TV series about her life.

Personal life

Broberg was kidnapped when she was twelve, and again when she was fourteen, both times by Robert Berchtold, a friend of the family, who had sexual encounters with both parents. During the first kidnapping, he groomed her by convincing her that they had been abducted by aliens, and that she had to have sex with him to conceive a child. When the FBI found Broberg, she did not disclose the sexual abuse to anyone, fearing that the aliens would harm her family. Berchtold continued to sexually abuse Broberg between 1972 and 1976, and in 1986 he was convicted for rape of a child against another child. 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. 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. Robert Berchtold committed suicide in 2005 following news that another prosecution for his crimes was imminent.
She has a son from a previous marriage.

Recognition

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.
In 2017, Broberg spoke to the St. George Area Chamber of Commerce Chamber inspiration luncheon, and the Hurricane Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2022A Friend of the FamilyJan's psychologistMini series; also producer
2022The Gabby Petito StoryAttorneyTV movie
2020Holly & IvyLibrarianTV movie
2020Behind YouBethMovie
2019Check Inn to ChristmasEvelyn MasonTV movie
2019The Road Home for ChristmasMaggieTV movie
2019Love, Fall & OrderMargie WrightTV movie
2017–2019I'm SorryBonnie3 episodes
2018Dick DicksterCoco HartMovie
2018Chasing BullitJulianMovie
2017Abducted in Plain SightSelfDocumentary
2015We Are Your FriendsSandraMovie
2015i-LivedJosh's MomMovie
2015More Than WordsAllison MurphyShort
2015Alone in the DustSarahShort
2015They Want Dick DicksterCoco HartMovie
2015Sangre NegraJudge Blake1 episode
2014Happy MediumMotherShort
2014At the Devil's DoorRoyannaMovie
2014The Swan Princess: A Royal Family TaleUberta Direct-to-DVD
2014HauntMeredith TannerMovie
2013Criminal MindsLauren Morrison1 episode
2013The Flipside 1 episode
2013CoyoteMrs. Herlihy
2013Iron Man 3Senior TechnicianMovie
2013My Only SonRhonda PorterShort
2012DreamcatchersVidaShort
2012ManiacRitaMovie
201240 Charlotte Pefferele
2012Darling CompanionHysterical WifeMovie
2009Reality HellJan Bloom1 episode
2007Passage to ZarahemlaAunt CorrineMovie
2002–2006EverwoodNurse Louise32 episodes
2005Mobsters and MormonsLouise MeansMovie
2004Baptists at Our BarbecueTartan's MomMovie
2004ParadiseRachel DoveTV movie
2003The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The JourneySariahMovie
2003Clubhouse Detectives in Scavenger HuntElaineMovie
2002Clubhouse Detectives in Big TroubleElaineMovie
2002Clubhouse Detectives in Search of a Lost PrincessElaineMovie
2001Little SecretsCaroline LindstromMovie
2001The Poof PointCorkyDisney Channel Original Movie
2001Bug Off!MomMovie
2001Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI FamilyHannah Marston1 episode
2000Message in a Cell PhoneJessMovie
1999Touched by an AngelReporter1 episode
1996NadirConnieMovie
1993The ButterCream Gang in Secret of Treasure MountainMinnieDirect-to-Video
1993Harmful IntentSheliaTV movie
1993Slaughter of the InnocentsCindy LockerbyMovie
1993The Man with Three WivesMotherTV movie
1992Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta ViewTV movie
1992In the Line of Duty: Siege at MarionHeidi SwappTV movie