Jenny Sullivan (born December 14, 1946) is an American actress who has starred in films and on television. She has starred in some made for TV movies, her best-known role is in the 1983 NBC hit miniseries V as the reporter Kristine Walsh. In 1984, she reprised her role as Kristine Walsh in the hit sequel V: The Final Battle. She was married to guitarist/producer Jim Messina during the heyday of the country rock duo Loggins and Messina.Her first feature film was in the 1968 movie The Angry Breed. Other film roles include Plaza Suite (1971), The Other, The Candidate (1972), Getting Straight, Breakfast in Bed, and Shadow of Doubt.She has made guest appearances on TV shows, including Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet, Adam-12, The F.B.I., Love, American Style, Dan August, Sanford and Son, Ironside, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, All in the Family, "Hawaii Five 0" and The Fall Guy.Jenny Sullivan is the daughter of actor Barry Sullivan. Jenny wrote the play J for J (Journals for John) which was prompted after she found a packet of unsent letters (in 1995) written by Barry decades earlier to her older brother, Johnny, who was mentally disabled. The play premiered on October 20, 2001. John Ritter, who in real life had a handicapped brother, played Johnny, Jenny played herself, and actor Jeff Kober portrayed Barry.Sullivan is the former sister-in-law of songwriter Jimmy Webb who was married to her half sister and former cover girl, Patricia. Jenny Sullivan is an aunt to Patricia's seven children.
An actress, director and playwright, Sullivan has performed in such plays as "The Baby Dance," "Any Wednesday," "Battle of Angels" and "Instant Foreplay". Long associated with The Rubicon Theater in Ventura, CA, as its Artistic Director, she has directed productions of "The Rainmaker" with Stephanie Zimbalist, "Proof" with Anne Heche, "Defying Gravity," for which she won a 'Robby' award, and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." She also directed a revolving door of actors in a long-running L.A. presentation of "The Vagina Monologues."
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Wrote the play "J for J" ("Journal for John") which was inspired after she found a series of unsent letters written a half century ago by her actor/father Barry Sullivan to her handicapped older brother Johnny. The intense play had its premiere on October 20, 2001 at the Rubicon Theater in Ventura, California with actor John Ritter, who in real life had a mentally-challenged brother, playing Johnny and Jenny appearing as herself.
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She is the daughter of actor Barry Sullivan. In the 1990s, she was working as a theatrical director.
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