In 1986, Ms. Larson made her daytime television debut as bitchy TV columnist Judith Clayton on As the World Turns; and in 1988 she played psychotic kidnapper Ursula Blackwell on ABC's One Life to Live.

While playing Opal, Jill has also appeared in Dearly Departed at New York's Second Stage Theater, The Lost Dreams and Hidden Frustration of Every Woman in Brooklyn at the Soho Rep Theater, Hysterical Blindness, directed by Jared Harris, and Riders to the Sea, by John Millington Synge. Other film roles include White Squall, starring Jeff Bridges, and Vertical City.

A recent journey has led her to her greatest joy of all, the adoption of her beautiful daughter, Anni-Ming, whom she brought home from Shanghai in June 1996. Ms. Larson and Anni-Ming live in Manhattan and spend weekends at their country home in Pennsylvania. In addition to playing with Anni-Ming, she also enjoys anything relating to food, as well as home improvement-type projects. She also loves arts and crafts, which she most enjoys sharing with her many nieces, nephews, her godchild and, of course, with Anni-Ming.

Ms. Larson still finds time to volunteer at the 52nd Street Project, which helps inner-city youths get started in theater by encouraging their writing and performance talent.

Jill as psychotic kidnapper Ursula Blackwell on One Life To Live in 1988