Lucinda Jenney Movies and Career Information

Lucinda Jenney (born 23 April 1954) is an American actress. Jenney was born in Long Island City, Queens, New York. She has appeared in over 70 films and television programs, beginning in 1984 with the Eleanor Gaver directed film Hearts and Diamonds. She is probably best known for her role as the worried Navy wife and mother in the 1993 film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Matinee, starring John Goodman and Cathy Moriarty, and her role as Helen O'Donnell, wife of Kennedy White House senior adviser Kenneth O'Donnell (Kevin Costner) wife in the drama Thirteen Days (2000), also about the Missile Crisis. She played the barfly who tried to pick up Dustin Hoffman at a Las Vegas casino in Rain Man. She has portrayed Helen Singer in the thriller 24 and civilian auditor Lanie Kellis in The Shield. Along with former husband, actor and director Bill Moseley, she is the parent of actress Marion Moseley.