Brynn Thayer

Brynn Thayer is an American actress born in Dallas who has worked largely in television. Perhaps her best-known role is Jenny Wolek, whom she played on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from 1978 until 1986, a part that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. After leaving the show in 1986, she moved into primetime television and starred in the CBS dramas TV 101 from 1988 to 1989 and Island Son from 1989 to 1990. She joined Matlock in 1992 as a regular, playing Leanne MacIntyre, the daughter of the title character, after guest starring in a 1991 episode called The Suspect. From 1997 to 1998 she had a regular role on Pensacola: Wings of Gold. Her film work includes Hero and the Terror (1988), and she later appeared in Murder in Mexico: The Bruce Beresford-Redman Story (2015). She also guest starred on many series, among them Moonlighting, Murder, She Wrote, JAG, Cold Case, and Castle.