Patricia Joanne "Jenny" O'Hara 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 , was a journalist and drama teacher, who founded and continues to run the storied 13th 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. Edith O'Hara directed a children's theater in Warren, where the two daughters occasionally acted. She spent a year at... Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh 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 Sir Alec Guinness, and in the short-lived musical The Fig Leaves Are Falling with Dorothy Loudon. In 1970, O'Hara succeeded her younger sister, Jill in the musical Promises, Promises.
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