Michael Learned was born on April 9,1939 and is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons.
18 Facts About Michael Learned
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Michael Learned has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly.
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Michael Learned's maternal grandfather was an attache for the United States Embassy in Rome.
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Michael Learned has five younger sisters: Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit and Philippa.
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Michael Learned lived on a Connecticut farm for the first 10 years of her life.
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When she was 11, Michael Learned moved to Austria, where her father worked for the US State Department.
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Michael Learned was nominated for six Emmy Awards as Lead Actress in a Drama, winning three times.
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Michael Learned made occasional guest appearances until the show's cancelation and later appeared in four of the six Waltons reunion movies made during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Michael Learned made her big screen debut in 1980, playing the supporting role in the drama film Touched by Love.
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Michael Learned later appeared in Power and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and well as number of made-for-television movies.
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Nevertheless, Michael Learned was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress and won yet another Emmy for this role in 1982.
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Michael Learned later had starring roles in the unsuccessful 1988 drama Hothouse and 1989 sitcom Living Dolls and reprised her Waltons role for a number of television movies and reunions in the 1990s.
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In 2005, Michael Learned played Judge Helen Turner on the ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live as part of the "baby switch" storyline on both shows.
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Michael Learned guest-starred in Scrubs as Mrs Wilk in five episodes from the show's fifth season.
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Michael Learned played Shirley Smith on ABC's General Hospital in 2010.
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In late 2011, Michael Learned played Katherine Chancellor on the CBS daytime soap opera, The Young and the Restless, filling in for Jeanne Cooper, who was on extended medical leave from the series.
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Michael Learned reprised the role opposite Lance E Nichols as Hoke at Judson Theatre Company in March 2013.
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Michael Learned further stated in the article that she has been sober since 1977.