![]() She 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. Jenny O'Hara debuted on stage at age 5 at the Bushkill Playhouse in the Poconos. Edith O'Hara directed a children's theater in Warren, Pennsylvania, where the two daughters occasionally acted. John and Edith O'Hara eventually divorced. 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. O'Hara, was a salesman, and her mother, Edith (Hopkins) O'Hara, was a journalist and drama teacher, who founded and continued to run the 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City for many years before her death at age 103 in 2020.
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