Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson (9 May 1931 – 11 October 2005) was an English actress known as Jan Holden, using her mother's maiden name as a stage name.
Born in Southport, Lancashire, Jeanne Wilkinson, as she then was, spent her early childhood in India, where her father was a senior manager at the Swadeshi Cotton Mills in Kanpur.
[citation needed] On the outbreak of the Second World War, Holden and her mother returned to Britain, where she became a boarder at Lowther College in North Wales.
[citation needed] Her television credits included Fabian of the Yard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Presents, The Champions, The Vise, The Avengers, Bird of Prey, The Cheaters, The Saint,[1] The Baron, Harpers West One, Are You Being Served?,[2] Casanova '73, Agony and O Happy Band!.
[citation needed] In 1988, she married Louis Manson, a solicitor and businessman, but she was already in poor health and remained so during her final two decades.