Jenny O'Hara

Biography: Jenny O'Hara is part of a performing family whose influence encompasses regional and New York theater from Warren, PA, to Greenwich Village and Broadway, and rock music from England to New York. Born in Sonora, CA, her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman and her mother, Edith, a journalist and drama teacher. 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, leading a gypsy-like existence in half-built houses and other accouterments of a struggling existence. Edith O'Hara directed a children's theater in Warren, where the two daughters occasionally participated as actresses during their teens, though neither took it seriously. Jenny spent a year at Carnegie Tech and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner. She was in touring companies of Cactus Flower and Brecht on Brecht, with Lotte Lenya;Jenny O'Hara is part of a performing family whose influence encompasses regional and New York theater from Warren, PA, to Greenwich Village and Broadway, and rock music from England to New York. Born in Sonora, CA, her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman and her mother, Edith, a journalist and drama teacher. 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, leading a gypsy-like existence in half-built houses and other accouterments of a struggling existence. Edith O'Hara directed a children's theater in Warren, where the two daughters occasionally participated as actresses during their teens, though neither took it seriously. Jenny spent a year at Carnegie Tech and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner. She was in touring companies of Cactus Flower and Brecht on Brecht, with Lotte Lenya; off-Broadway productions of Arms and the Man, Play With the Tiger, and Hang Down Your Head and Die; and stock productions of Paint Your Wagon and Take Me Along, among many other musicals and straight plays. She also appeared on ABC's Time for Us. O'Hara's biggest stage credit of the '60s was in Dylan (opposite Alec Guinness) as Annabelle Graham-Pike. In 1970, O'Hara succeeded her younger sister Jill in the musical Promises, Promises. By the mid-'70s, Edith O'Hara was running the 13th Street Theatre in Greenwich Village (a major venue for off-off-Broadway and children's theater), and her brother Jack was in London, playing guitar and bass and singing with the band Eggs Over Easy, pioneering the pub rock scene in England. Meanwhile, Jenny had graduated to television, both in series and made-for-TV features, including a starring role in Brink's: The Great Robbery, The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (in which she took over a role originated by Joanne Woodward in the movie They Might Be Giants), Blind Ambition, and Blinded by the Light. She later worked in movies such as Career Opportunities, Mystic River, and Matchstick Men, and television series such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, and ER. Expand

Jenny O'Hara's Scores

Average career score: 64
Highest Metascore: 81 The Mindy Project: Season 4
Lowest Metascore: 29 Ghost Whisperer: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 16
  2. Negative: 1 out of 16
16 tv reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
68 Perry Mason (2020): Season 1 Jun 21, 2020 Jenny O'Hara 6.0
tbd A Million Little Things: Season 2 Sep 26, 2019 Enid tbd
tbd ER: Season 3 Aug 21, 2019 Nurse / Nurse Rhonda Sterling 7.8
54 The Resident: Season 1 Jan 21, 2018 Shirley Harris 6.9
60 9-1-1: Season 1 Jan 3, 2018 Nora 6.4
60 American Housewife: Season 1 Oct 11, 2016 Mrs. Smith 6.1
57 Son of Zorn: Season 1 Sep 11, 2016 Roberta 6.8
tbd Cold Case: Season 4 Feb 8, 2016 Frances Campbell 7.5
70 Recovery Road: Season 1 Jan 25, 2016 Wes' Grandmother 6.4
81 The Mindy Project: Season 4 Sep 15, 2015 Dot / Dot / Jenny O'Hara 5.7
tbd Mike & Molly: Season 5 Dec 8, 2014 Mikey 5.5
tbd Hot in Cleveland: Season 6 Nov 5, 2014 Actor tbd
53 The McCarthys: Season 1 Oct 30, 2014 Elaine 6.9
tbd The Mindy Project: Season 3 Sep 16, 2014 Dot 7.5
tbd Supernatural: Season 9 Oct 8, 2013 Julia 7.9
69 The Mindy Project: Season 1 Sep 25, 2012 Dot 7.3
tbd Rizzoli & Isles: Season 3 Jun 5, 2012 Actor 7.9
tbd Childrens' Hospital: Season 2 Aug 22, 2010 Georgene 7.3
79 Big Love: Season 3 Jan 18, 2009 Nita / Nita 6.7
tbd NCIS: Season 6 Sep 23, 2008 Jenny O'Hara 7.9
74 The Closer: Season 4 Jul 14, 2008 Karen Silva 8.3
tbd The King of Queens: Season 9 Dec 6, 2006 Janet Heffernan / Janet Heffernan 8.4
tbd House: Season 3 Sep 5, 2006 Fran 8.7
72 Big Love: Season 1 Mar 12, 2006 Actor / Nita 6.8
tbd Boston Legal: Season 2 Sep 27, 2005 Judge Kimberly Ohlund 8.2
tbd Grey's Anatomy: Season 2 Sep 25, 2005 Mrs. Shelton's Mother 8.3
29 Ghost Whisperer: Season 1 Sep 23, 2005 Margaret Devine 8.2
tbd CSI: Season 6 Sep 22, 2005 Sandra Walkey 4.3
tbd The King of Queens: Season 8 Sep 19, 2005 Janet Heffernan / Janet 8.9
tbd Six Feet Under: Season 5 Jun 6, 2005 Jenny O'Hara 8.2