Jennifer Harmon, who has appeared 21 times on Broadway over nearly 50 years and played the villainous Cathy Craig Lord on the ABC television series. One life to liveHe died. She was 82 years old.
Her family announced that Harmon lived in New York and died on Saturday.
Harmon was the fifth actress to portray Cathy in Agnes Nixon One life to liveafter Katherine Burns, Amy Leavitt, Jane Alice Brandon and Dorie Cavanaugh. She worked on the show from 1976 until 1978, when she received a Daytime Emmy nomination. (Robin Strasser was offered the role but turned it down to play Dorian Lord.)
Harmon made her Broadway debut in 1965 in a revival of the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play. You can’t take it with you Before the decade was out he returned to the Great White Way in a revival of Chekhov’s style Cherry orchard And Ibsen Wild duck And six other plays.
Her credits included Broadway productions School of scandals Almost 30 years apart. Noel Coward Cheerful soul In 1987; Wendy Wasserstein The Rosenzweig Sisters In 1993-1994; Lillian Hellman Little foxes In 1997; Terence Rattigan Deep blue sea In 1998; David Hare Amy’s point of view In 1999; Neil Simon Dinner party and Barefoot in the park In the years 2000-2001 and 2006, respectively; Tennessee Williams Glass Zoo In 2005; Edward Albee Seascapes In 2005-06; and John Robin Baetz Other desert cities In 2011-12.
The versatile actress has stood alongside the likes of Stockard Channing, Judi Dench, Jessica Lange, Marian Seldes, Blythe Danner, and Jessica Lange during her long acting career.
Born in Pasadena on December 3, 1943, Harmon grew up in New Orleans, attending the University of Mississippi and the University of Michigan before moving to New York and joining the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company, which took her to Broadway.
She got her start on NBC soap operas from 1974 to 1975 How to survive a marriageWhere her character Chris divorced, remarried, and battled alcohol addiction.
She returned to One life to live In the early 1990s to play a lawyer representing Vicki Lord, played by Erica Slezak – as Kathy, who kidnapped Vicki’s child years ago – and appeared in other series such as Another world, Guidance light and Loving.
Her television resume includes work on Barnaby Jones, Dallas, White shadow, Saint elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, geese, Save me and The good wife.
