Los Angeles, May 12 -- Jennifer Harmon, the lead actress of the NBC soap opera How to Survive a Marriage and a familiar face to daytime television audiences through her appearance on One Life to Live, has passed away. She was 82.

Jennifer breathed her last on May 9, her family announced, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

Harmon was the fifth actress to portray Cathy on Agnes Nixon's One Life to Live, following Catherine Burns, Amy Levitt, Jane Alice Brandon and Dorrie Kavanaugh. She worked on the show from 1976 through 1978, when she received a Daytime Emmy nomination. (Robin Strasser had been offered the part but turned it down to play Dorian Lord.)

Harmon had made her Broadway debut in 1965 in a revival of Moss Hart and George S...