Jan Broberg

Career

Broberg has appeared in over a dozen feature films. Some of her film credits are Slaughter of the Innocents (HBO), The Poof Point (Disney), Message in a Cell Phone (Disney), The Secret Keeper (Columbia TriStar), Bug Off, Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets (Columbia TriStar), 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 (CBS), Promised Land (CBS), Remember Me (PBS), Death Row (PBS), The Man With Three Wives (the Norman Grayson story), Harmful Intent (NBC), Siege at Marion (NBC), Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (CBS), Ancient Secrets of the Bible (CBS Miniseries). 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 (Tuacahn Theatre), I Do! I Do! (Sundance Theatre), Jane Eyre (Glendale Center), My Fair Lady (Scera Theatre), Carousel (Idaho State University), Trixie True, Teen Detective (BYU), No No Nanette (Playmill), 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

References

References

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8. (September 30, 2022). "Show Shares Story Of Pocatello Girl Kidnapped By Family Friend". 95.7 [[KEZJ-FM]].
9. (2003-10-19). "Actress steps out of character - 'Nurse Louise' to tell her story". [[Idaho State Journal]].
10. (7 February 2019). "The Strangest True-Crime Story Yet". [[The Atlantic]].
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13. (16 June 2019). "Jan Broberg: Abuser used alien conspiracy to control me". [[BBC News]].
14. (15 November 2022). "Jan Broberg Tearfully Explains ‘Validating’ Experience With Fellow Victim Heidi Brewer". [[Newsweek]].
15. (16 February 2019). "Why the Unbelievable True Story of Abducted in Plain Sight Really Is That Disturbing". [[E! Online]].
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19. (February 7, 2019). "Netflix documentary shows how sexual predator tormented Idaho girl, family for years". [[Idaho Statesman]].
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22. (July 30, 2017). "St. George Chamber luncheon brings 'Everwood' star and abuse survivor Jan Broberg". Canyon Media.
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