Brynn Thayer 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.
10 Facts About Brynn Thayer
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In 1986, Brynn Thayer left One Life to Live and began a career on primetime television.
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Brynn Thayer starred in two short-lived dramas for CBS: TV 101 from 1988 to 1989, and Island Son.
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In film, Brynn Thayer co-starred in Hero and the Terror and Murder in Mexico: The Bruce Beresford-Redman Story.
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Brynn Thayer guest starred in a number of television shows, including Moonlighting; Murder, Brynn Thayer Wrote; 7th Heaven; Diagnosis: Murder; JAG; Cold Case; Without a Trace; Castle; and How to Get Away with Murder.
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Brynn Thayer had a recurring role in General Hospital as Kylie Quinlan in 1994.
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Brynn Thayer portrayed the present day version of Lily Specter on Suits, mother of Harvey Specter.
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Brynn Thayer is the daughter of Margery and William Paul Brynn Thayer, a former naval officer and business executive who was Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration.
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Brynn Thayer studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.
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Brynn Thayer co-founded the charitable organization ZazAngels with actor Michael Zaslow and his wife, Susan Hufford, to generate funds for researching amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.