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Michael Learned
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Michael Learned (Olivia
Walton) was born in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 1939. Miss
Michael Learned, as she was billed during the early part of her
career, appeared in several guest roles in shows such as The
Doris Day Show, Ironside, Gunsmoke, Police Story and The Streets
of San Francisco. She also appeared on stage, with roles in many
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cast of The Waltons as Olivia when it was decided to make a
series after the success of The Homecoming. Patricia Neal had
played Olivia in the initial movie. Learned stayed with the
series until her contract expired late in 1978 and won several
Emmy awards for her role during this time. The explanation for
her character being written out of the series was that Olivia
had contracted tuberculosis and needed to be sent away to
Arizona to recuperate. She did agree, however, make a number of
appearances, and so the character of Olivia remained in a minor
capacity. We do see her in briefly in some of the 1982 movie
specials, and she makes a return in the later movies of the
1990's.
After her regular role in The Waltons,
she was a very busy actress, making television mini series,
movies and appearing in other television series. She appeared in
Little Mo, A Christmas Without Snow, All My Sons, Mercy or
Murder?, Keeping Secrets and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Other
television series in which she appeared were Nurse, Living
Dolls, and Hothouse. Her role as Mary in Nurse won her a fourth
Emmy award.
Michael continues to act on both stage
and screen and perhaps most recently has been seen as a rather
nasty character in Profiler.
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