{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Jan Sharp | birth_date = {{birth date|1946|5|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Cobram, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|7|24|1946|5|16|df=y}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | occupation = Film producer, director and cinematographer | spouse = {{marriage|Phillip Noyce|1979|2004}} | children = 2 }}

'''Jan Sharp''' (16 May 1946 – 24 July 2012) was an Australian film producer, director and cinematographer.

==Biography==

===Early life=== Jan Sharp was born on 16 May 1946 in Cobram, Australia.<ref name="imdb">[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0789057/ imdb]</ref><ref name="smh">[http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/unsung-film-pioneer-found-her-place-20120909-25m57.html Unsung film pioneer found her place], ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 10 September 2012</ref> She attended Catholic boarding schools in Australia.<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="smh"/> She graduated from the University of Melbourne, where she studied Fine Arts.<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="smh"/>

===Career=== She started her career at Film Australia and later worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="smh"/> She then worked again at Film Australia, this time as an Associate Producer and Director.<ref name="imdb"/> Later, she had a weekly column in ''The Australian'' and a cultural program on ''Radio Australia''.<ref name="imdb"/> She continued to work as a film producer in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="imdb"/>

===Personal life=== She was married to Australian film producer Phillip Noyce from 1979 to 2004.<ref name="imdb"/> They had one daughter, Lucia, and Sharp had a daughter, Alice, by a previous relationship with the well-known Sydney-based artist and cartoonist Michael Lodge.<ref name="imdb"/><ref name="smh"/> She resided in the former private residence of actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990).<ref name="smh"/> She died on 24 July 2012 in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="imdb"/>

===Legacy=== The 39th Telluride Film Festival in 2013 was dedicated to her.<ref name="smh"/><ref>[http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/pdfs/39th_TFF_program_guide_v10.pdf 39th Telluride Film Festival] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927215021/http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org/pdfs/39th_TFF_program_guide_v10.pdf |date=27 September 2013 }}</ref>

==Filmography==

===As a producer=== *''Sue and Mario: The Italian Australians'' (1979).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Peter Kenna's The Good Wife'' (1987).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Wide Sargasso Sea'' (1993).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Damage Control'' (2008).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Beard: Pecking Order'' (2010).<ref name="imdb"/>

===As an executive producer=== *''Echoes of Paradise'' (1987).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Rick Michele and Scarlett'' (2010).<ref name="imdb"/>

===As a director=== *''Jenny'' (1978).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Damage Control'' (2008).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Beard: Pecking Order'' (2010).<ref name="imdb"/> *''Rick Michele and Scarlett'' (2010).<ref name="imdb"/>

===As a cinematographer=== *''Damage Control'' (2008).<ref name="imdb"/>

===As an editor=== *''Damage Control'' (2008).<ref name="imdb"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0182b|Sharp, Jan}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Jan}} Category:1946 births Category:2012 deaths Category:People from Victoria (state) Category:Film people from Los Angeles Category:University of Melbourne alumni Category:Australian film producers Category:Australian film directors Category:Australian women film directors Category:Australian cinematographers Category:Australian women cinematographers