Brynn Thayer

About

Brynn Thayer is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Jenny Wolek on the television soap opera One Life to Live from 1978 to 1986, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.

Thayer is well known for her work on television. From 1978 to 1986, she played Jenny Wolek in the ABC daytime soap opera, One Life to Live. Thayer assumed the role in August 1978 amid a contract dispute between Katherine Glass and ABC Daytime.

In 1986, Thayer left One Life to Live and began a career on primetime television. She starred in two short-lived dramas for CBS: TV 101 from 1988 to 1989, and Island Son (1989–1990). In 1992, she joined the cast of the ABC legal series Matlock portraying Matlock’s daughter, Leanne MacIntyre, and was a regular cast member; she was previously a guest star in the 1991 episode “The Suspect”. From 1997-98, she had a regular role in the Pensacola: Wings of Gold.
In film, Thayer co-starred in Hero and the Terror (1988) and Murder in Mexico: The Bruce Beresford-Redman Story (2015).
She guest starred in a number of television shows, including Moonlighting; Murder, She Wrote; 7th Heaven; Diagnosis: Murder; JAG; Cold Case; Without a Trace…