Patricia Joanne "Jenny" O'Hara (born February , ) is an American film,
television, and stage actress.O'Hara was born in Sonora, California.
Her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman, and her mother, Edith
(née Hopkins), was a journalist and drama teacher, who founded and
continues to run the storied th Street Repertory Company in New York
City. Jenny, her singer/actress younger sister Jill O'Hara, and her
singer/guitarist brother Jack O'Hara, grew up amid their mother's
pursuit of a theatrical career. Her parents are divorced. Edith O'Hara
directed a children's theater in Warren, Pennsylvania, where the two
daughters occasionally acted.[citation needed] Jenny O'Hara debuted on
stage at age at the Bushkill Playhouse in the Poconos.She spent a
year at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in
Pittsburgh and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New
York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.[citation needed]
In she appeared on Broadway in the dramatic play Dylan at the
Plymouth Theatre opposite Sir Alec Guinness,[citation needed] and in
appeared in the musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling at the Broadhurst
Theatre with Dorothy Loudon.[citation needed] Her other Broadway
credits include Promises, Promises, The Iceman Cometh, and The Odd
Couple.In , O'Hara succeeded her younger sister, Jill (who had been
nominated for a Tony Award) in the musical Promises, Promises. She
graduated to television, both in series and made-for-TV features,
including starring roles in: Brinks: The Great Robbery, The Return of
the World's Greatest Detective, Blind Ambition and Blinded by the
Light with Kristy McNichol.
television, and stage actress.O'Hara was born in Sonora, California.
Her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman, and her mother, Edith
(née Hopkins), was a journalist and drama teacher, who founded and
continues to run the storied th Street Repertory Company in New York
City. Jenny, her singer/actress younger sister Jill O'Hara, and her
singer/guitarist brother Jack O'Hara, grew up amid their mother's
pursuit of a theatrical career. Her parents are divorced. Edith O'Hara
directed a children's theater in Warren, Pennsylvania, where the two
daughters occasionally acted.[citation needed] Jenny O'Hara debuted on
stage at age at the Bushkill Playhouse in the Poconos.She spent a
year at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in
Pittsburgh and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New
York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.[citation needed]
In she appeared on Broadway in the dramatic play Dylan at the
Plymouth Theatre opposite Sir Alec Guinness,[citation needed] and in
appeared in the musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling at the Broadhurst
Theatre with Dorothy Loudon.[citation needed] Her other Broadway
credits include Promises, Promises, The Iceman Cometh, and The Odd
Couple.In , O'Hara succeeded her younger sister, Jill (who had been
nominated for a Tony Award) in the musical Promises, Promises. She
graduated to television, both in series and made-for-TV features,
including starring roles in: Brinks: The Great Robbery, The Return of
the World's Greatest Detective, Blind Ambition and Blinded by the
Light with Kristy McNichol.
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