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'One Life to Live' actress Jennifer Harmon passes away
Her extensive Broadway career spanned decades and included acclaimed productions
- PUBLISHED: Tue 12 May 2026, 10:59 AM
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.Jennifer Harmon, the lead actress of the NBC soap opera How to Survive a Marriage and a familiar face to daytime television audiences through her appearance on One Life to Live, has passed away. She was 82.
Jennifer breathed her last on May 9, her family announced, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
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Harmon was the fifth actress to portray Cathy on Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live, following Catherine Burns, Amy Levitt, Jane Alice Brandon and Dorrie Kavanaugh. She worked on the show from 1976 through 1978, when she received a Daytime Emmy nomination.
Harmon had made her Broadway debut in 1965 in a revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's You Can't Take It With You, and before the decade was done, had returned to the Great White Way in revivals of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Ibsen's The Wild Duck and six other plays.
Her extensive Broadway career spanned decades and included acclaimed productions of The School for Scandal — in revivals staged nearly 30 years apart — as well as Blithe Spirit in 1987 and The Sisters Rosensweig in 1993-94.
She returned to One Life to Live in the early 1990s to play an attorney representing Erika Slezak's Viki Lord — as Cathy, she had kidnapped Viki's baby years ago — and showed up on such other soaps as Another World, Guiding Light and Loving.