Janice Kent is an American actress, director and life coach. She has appeared in roles on stage and television and in films. She has appeared in over 150 television commercials.

Biography

Early life and education
Born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, Kent, who graduated from Plainfield High School in 1965, trained at the Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, Yale School of Drama at Oxford University in England.


TV work
Kent is perhaps best recognized for her work in over 100 episodes of The New Leave It To Beaver opposite Leave It to Beaver TV series co-stars Jerry Mathers, Barbara Billingsley, and Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver, where she appears as his Wally's wife Maryellen Cleaver. She also directed several episodes of that series. She continues to act; most recently on CBS-TV crime/drama series Without A Trace and Robert Townsend's critically acclaimed webseries Diary of a Single Mom.


Life and Acting coaching
In addition to her acting career, Kent also runs The International Coach Federation, an acting/life skills coaching workshop based in Burbank, California, where Kent resides. The ICF serves a training ground to develop professionalism skills applied by actors in auditioning for roles in helping apply those same skills to everyday lives of individuals, with a strong emphasis is on experiencing, and the shifting of perspective and position. The ICF workshop itself defines Coaching as an "ongoing rofessional relationship that helps people produce the desired results in their lives, careers and businesses.