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Jennifer Harmon, a prolific Broadway performer who often understudied much wide known actors specified arsenic Stockard Channing, Judi Dench, Jessica Lange and Jessica Lange, and who appeared arsenic a regular connected nan ABC soap One Life To Live successful nan 1970s, died Saturday, May 9. She was 82.
Her decease was announced by family. No origin was stated.
A resident of New York, Harmon, calved December 3, 1943, was formed successful 21 Broadway productions, from her debut successful 1965’s You Can’t Take It With You to 2011’s Other Desert Cities. In nan latter, she was an understudy for Channing earlier later taking complete arsenic a replacement.
Among her different Broadway credits were The School for Scandal (in some 1966 and a revival successful 1995), Blithe Spirit (1987); The Sisters Rosensweig (1993); The Little Foxes (1997); The Deep Blue Sea (1998); Amy’s View (1999); The Glass Menagerie (2005); and Edward Albee’s Seascape (2005). She was an understudy successful 2 Neil Simon Broadway comedies: The Dinner Party (2000) and Barefoot successful nan Park (2006).
On television, she appeared successful episodes of, among others, Barnaby Jones, Dallas, The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere, Law & Order, Oz, Rescue Me and The Good Wife.
Harmon was a regular connected nan NBC soap How To Survive A Marriage for nan series’ full 1974-1975 run, and then, from 1976 to 1978, took complete nan champion domiciled of Cathy Craig Lord connected ABC’s One Life to Live. The characteristic was a instrumentality favourite arsenic nan antagonist to nan series’ upstanding heroine Viki Lord, played by Erika Slezak.
Other soap roles included little stints connected Guiding Light, Another World and Loving.
Information connected survivors was not instantly available.
