Jenny O'Hara Movies and Career Information

Jenny O'Hara (born February 24, 1942) is an American actress who is part of a performing family whose influence encompasses regional and New York Theater from Warren, Pennsylvania to Greenwich Village, Broadway, and rock music from England to New York. O'Hara was born in Sonora, California. Her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman, and her mother, the former Edith Hopkins, was 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 accoutrements 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 O'Hara is married to British-born American actor Nick Ullett (b. March 5, 1941). O'Hara 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. In the 1960s she appeared in the dramatic play Dylan opposite Alec Guinness and in the short-lived musical The Fig