Maggie Wheeler

Maggie Wheeler achieved something almost impossible: she created a character so indelible in Janice, that voice and that laugh, that it could have swallowed her whole, and it did not. I admire how she treated Friends as one room in a much larger house, branching into voice acting, singing, songwriting, choir directing and workshops. That tells me she sees herself as a working artist rather than a celebrity, which is exactly the temperament that survives in this business. Scene-stealing supporting players are the connective tissue of television history, and Wheeler is among the very best of them. Decades on, a few seconds of her still steal any scene.

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Name (English)

Maggie Wheeler

Name (Japanese)

マギー・ホイーラー

Reading

まぎー・ほいーらー

Born

August 7, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

University

Sarah Lawrence College

• Official sitehttps://www.maggiewheeler.net/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/maggiewheeler_official/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Wheeler
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236766

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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