Janice Lynde

Who is Janice Lynde?

Janice Lynde, raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is an American actress.

Lynde began her professional career at ten years old, playing piano and singing solos with the Dallas Symphony. She attended college at Indiana University, studying music, and then the University of Pennsylvania. After she graduated from college, she moved to New York and began a career in acting. In 1973, she moved to Los Angeles, where she got her big acting break when she was chosen to be one the of the original cast members of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, where she portrayed Leslie Brooks. She left the series in early 1977. In 1979, she joined the cast of Another World as Tracy DeWitt; she left the role in 1981. In 1984, she starred as Laurel Chapin Wolek in One Life to Live, which she left in 1986. She has also appeared in several television shows, movies and television movies.