
DeWitt started performing on stage at age 13. DeWitt earned her degree from Ball State University with a Bachelor's degree in Arts. When she performed in her summer stock she was persuaded by the director to attend UCLA's Department of Theater MFA Program. She was given the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Clifton Webb Scholarship. Dewitt said she never met actor Abe Vigoda while she was at UCLA. She was employed as secretary while at UCLA. DeWitt is most famous for her character Janet Wood during the 1977-1984 season of the sitcom Three's Company, a job she got after being selected for the second pilot episode of the show. Janet was also featured in an episode of The Ropers which she was a part in 1979. DeWitt was the only actor to be featured in the show's 1984 finale. Then, she appeared in an episode on Finder of Lost Lovers in 1984. Then she was off acting for several years. The stage was her first time back to the stage in June of 1991 when she was a performer on an episode of the Noises Off production at Michigan's Cherry County Playhouse. [1] She also played in Spring Fling the 1995 TV comedy. Pinky and the Brain aired a 1997 episode featuring a character based on her. It was voiced in part by a different actress. She was in the episode Cybill. Her 2000s work include TV shows like Hope Island, The Nick at Nite Holiday Special and Call of the Wild.
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