Later, she and her mother moved to Cardiff where she attended a convent school, then to Quebec when she was a teen, and eventually to Long Beach, California.

[2][3] In April 1963, photographer Gene Lester introduced O'Hara to singer-actor Fabian; they became a couple for a time in the 1960s.

In 1964, she was the decorative "queen" of the American Road Race of Champions in Riverside, greeting and posing with winners for photographs.

(1963), The Patsy (1964), Good Neighbor Sam (1964), A Swingin' Summer (1965), The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Rubia's Jungle (1970), and The Teacher (1974).

[8] Her many television credits included appearances on Dragnet, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Saint, The Real McCoys, The Beverly Hillbillies, My Three Sons, CHiPs, T.J. Hooker, Trapper John M.D., Fantasy Island, Quincy M. E., and Dallas.