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:
tbd The King of Queens: Season 7 Oct 27, 2004 Janet Heffernan / Janet 8.8
tbd The King of Queens: Season 6 Oct 1, 2003 Janet Heffernan / Janet Heffernan 9.0
tbd Judging Amy: Season 5 Sep 23, 2003 Katherine Costin tbd
tbd The King of Queens: Season 5 Sep 23, 2002 Janet Heffernan / Janet Heffernan 9.0
tbd NYPD Blue: Season 9 Nov 6, 2001 Mrs. Follender tbd
tbd The King of Queens: Season 4 Sep 24, 2001 Janet Heffernan / Janet Heffernan 9.0
tbd The King of Queens: Season 3 Oct 2, 2000 Janet Heffernan / Janet 8.8
tbd Party of Five: Season 6 Oct 5, 1999 Sylvia / Sylvia Wringler tbd
tbd The Practice: Season 4 Sep 26, 1999 Louise Morgan tbd
tbd Norm: Season 2 Sep 22, 1999 Mrs. Ford tbd
65 Dangerous Minds: Season 1 Sep 30, 1996 Jean Warner / Jenny O'Hara tbd
63 The Drew Carey Show: Season 1 Sep 13, 1995 Judge White 8.3
tbd Law & Order: Season 3 Sep 23, 1992 Carol Janssen 8.7
tbd Beverly Hills, 90210: Season 3 Jul 15, 1992 Mrs. Scanlon 8.8
tbd Empty Nest: Season 4 Sep 21, 1991 Mrs. Kravitz tbd
tbd Beverly Hills, 90210: Season 2 Jul 11, 1991 Pam Scanlon 8.5
tbd Father Dowling Mysteries: Season 3 Sep 20, 1990 Edith tbd
72 Murphy Brown: Season 1 Nov 14, 1988 Actor / Jenny O'Hara 5.8
tbd My Sister Sam: Season 2 Oct 3, 1987 Dixie Randazzo / Dixie Randazzo tbd
tbd My Sister Sam: Season 1 Oct 6, 1986 Dixie Randazzo / Dixie Randazzo tbd
tbd Remington Steele: Season 1 Oct 1, 1982 Amy tbd
tbd Simon and Simon: Season 1 Nov 24, 1981 Mrs. McDaniels tbd
tbd CHiPs: Season 4 Sep 21, 1980 Lina Beck tbd
tbd Barney Miller: Season 6 Sep 13, 1979 Scofield tbd
tbd The Facts of Life: Season 1 Aug 24, 1979 Miss Emily Mahoney (1979) / Ms. Mahoney tbd
tbd CHiPs: Season 2 Sep 16, 1978 Cora tbd
tbd Barney Miller: Season 5 Sep 14, 1978 Miss Schnabel tbd
tbd Starsky & Hutch: Season 4 Sep 12, 1978 Marianne Owens tbd
tbd Charlie's Angels (1977): Season 1 Mar 21, 1976 "Bloody" Mary Barrows / Jenny O'Hara tbd
tbd The Rockford Files (1974): Season 2 Sep 12, 1975 Operator tbd