Overview
- Her family, which announced the death Saturday, May 9, said she died in New York at 82 and did not share a cause.
- Harmon appeared in 21 Broadway productions from her 1965 debut in You Can’t Take It With You through Other Desert Cities in 2011, often understudying stars such as Stockard Channing, Judi Dench and Jessica Lange.
- On television, she led NBC’s How to Survive a Marriage in 1974–75 and portrayed Cathy Craig Lord on ABC’s One Life to Live from 1976 to 1978, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination.
- She later returned to One Life to Live in the early 1990s in a different role and made guest appearances on series including Dallas, St. Elsewhere, Oz, Rescue Me and The Good Wife.
- Born Dec. 3, 1943, in Pasadena and raised in New Orleans, she studied at the University of Mississippi and the University of Michigan before joining a New York repertory company that launched her Broadway career.