Jenny O'Hara

**Jenny O'Hara** is one of the actors of ***A Million Little Things***, portraying the role of Enid.

## Biography

### **Early life**

O'Hara was born on February 24, 1942 in Sonora, California. Her father, John B. O'Hara, was a salesman, and her mother, Edith (née Hopkins), was a journalist and drama teacher, who founded and continues to run the storied 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City.

O'Hara, 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, Pennsylvania, where the two daughters occasionally acted. Eventually, her parents divorced.

O'Hara spent a year at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.

### **Career**

In 1964, O'Hara appeared on Broadway in the dramatic play *Dylan* at the Plymouth Theatre opposite Sir Alec Guinness, and in 1969 appeared in the musical *The Fig Leaves Are Falling* at the Broadhurst Theatre with Dorothy Loudon.

In 1970, O'Hara succeeded her younger sister, Jill (who had been nominated for a Tony Award) in the musical *Promises, Promises*. By the mid-1970s, 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.

O'Hara graduated to television, both in series and made-for-TV features, including starring roles in *Brinks: The Great Robbery*, *The Return of the World's Greatest Detective*, *Blind Ambition* and *Blinded by the Light* with Kristy McNichol.

She later worked in movies such as *Career Opportunities*, *A Mother's Prayer*, *Mystic River*, *Matchstick Men*, *Extract and Devil*. She was part of the ensemble cast for the first season of *The Facts of Life* and the entire run of *My Sister Sam*. She also had guest roles on television series such as *Kojak*, *Charlie's Angels*, *Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected*, *Barney Miller*, *Law & Order*, *The X-Files*, *Beverly Hills, 90210*, *NYPD Blue*, *ER*, *CHiPs*, *House M.D.*, *Boston Legal*, *Reba*, *Six Feet Under*, and *Big Love*. She has also made appearances over the years on various TV game shows.

O'Hara had a recurring role as Doug Heffernan's mother, Janet Heffernan, on the 1998–2007 sitcom *The King of Queens*. She also had roles in the 2009 film, *Extract*, and the 2010 horror film, *Devil*.

More recently, O'Hara guest starred on *Grey's Anatomy*, *Transparent*, *The Mindy Project*, *9-1-1*, *Chicago Fire* and *American Housewife*, among others.

In 2019, O'Hara was cast as Enid on *A Million Little Things*.

### **Personal life**

O'Hara was married to August Dorr Watkins, an interior designer and former actor, from 1968 until their 1974 divorce. Since 1986, she has been married to British-born American actor Nick Ullett. They have two adult daughters.

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