
DeWitt first performed on stage at the age of 13. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Ball State University. In the following year, as she was performing in summer show when she met with the director, she convinced her to enroll in UCLA's Department of Theater MFA program,where she was awarded the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship along with the Clifton Webb Scholarship. Dewitt has claimed that she didn't meet the actor Abe Vigoda while she was at UCLA. She was employed as an assistant secretary while at UCLA. DeWitt is most famous for her portrayal of Janet Wood during the 1977-1984 season of sitcom Three's Company, a job she got after being cast in the second pilot episode of the show. Janet was also in an episode of The Ropers which she was a part in 1979. Following the show's conclusion, Three's Company ended in 1984, DeWitt appeared in an episode of Finder of Lost Loves in 1984, following which she resigned from acting for a number of years. She resumed acting with an appearance in the production of Noises Off at Michigan's Cherry County Playhouse in June 1991. [1] She also played in Spring Fling the 1995 TV comedy. A character that was based on her, voiced by an actress, was featured in a 1997 episode of Pinky and the Brain. She appeared in an episode of Cybill and also had an appearance in the penultimate episode of Living Single. Her work in the 2000s include television shows like Hope Island, The Nick at Nite Holiday Special and Call of the Wild.
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