Brynn Thayer


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 1979 to 1986, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.

Career

Thayer is best known for her work on television. From 1978-86, 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. For her role on the show, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1983, and Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama in 1986.
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. 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 regular role in the '.
In film, Thayer co-starred in Hero and the Terror and '.
She guest starred in a number of television shows, including Moonlighting, Murder, She Wrote, 7th Heaven, , JAG, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Castle, Suits, and How to Get Away with Murder. She had a recurring role in General Hospital as Kylie Quinlan in 1994. In 2011, she guest starred on Days of Our Lives as Susan Banks.

Personal life

Thayer was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Margery and William Paul Thayer, a former naval officer and business executive who was Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. She studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.
Thayer co-founded the charitable organization ZazAngels with actor Michael Zaslow and his wife, Susan Hufford, to generate funds for researching amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Zaslow died of ALS on December 6, 1998.