Michael Learned
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Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress best known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981).
She has received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, three for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976), and one for Nurse (1982).
Early life
Learned was born in Washington, D.C., the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Duane "Betti" (née Hooper) and Bruce Learned, a diplomat. Her maternal grandfather served as an ambassador for Rome's United States Embassy. Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit, and Philippa are five younger siblings.
For the first ten years of her life, she lived on a Connecticut farm. "All he told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I was a girl," learned.
Learned was 11 years old when she was relocated to Austria, where her father worked for the US State Department. She attended Arts Educational School, Tring, Hertfordshire, England, and now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. She discovered the theater and decided to make acting her life's passion during this period.
Personal life
Learned that he has been married four times. Peter Donat, a Canadian-American actor who married her in 1956 when she was 17 years old, was her first husband. In 1972, the marriage was dissolved. By the time of marriage, she had three sons, Caleb, Christopher, and Lucas Donat.
She was married twice, to Glen Chadwick, and she died as a result of divorce. She married actor-screenwriter William Parker in 1979. That marriage ended in divorce as well. Since 1988, she has been married to California solicitor John Doherty; the pair is married in California.
She wrote an article for Daily Word, a publishing of the Unity Church, in 2002, she claims she had "hit rock bottom" at the time she was cast in The Waltons. Learned at the age of 32, then discovered she was an alcoholic. She went to former husband Peter Donat's cabin on the California coast and discovered that her stay there was the start of a spiritual journey. Learned also in the essay that she has been sober since 1977.
Career
Olivia Walton appeared on The Waltons, either film or television, for nine seasons from 1972 to 1981. She was billed as "Miss Michael Learned" for the first five seasons of the show because she was relatively young at the time and producers wanted to avoid confusion among viewers about her gender. Producers' fear of her sex had been reduced during the show's fifth season, and "Miss" had been stripped from Learned's bill. She was nominated for six Emmy Awards as Lead Actress in a Drama for three times. After the conclusion of the sixth season, she decided to return for one more season on the understanding that she would not have to work the full nine months. She left the program after the seventh season.
Olivia's sudden disappearance was explained by her mother's emergence from tuberculosis and the opening of a sanatorium in Arizona. She made occasional guest appearances before the show's cancellation and then appeared in four of the six Waltons reunion films made during the 1980s and 1990s. Learned was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of Olivia Walton. Will Geer, a Walton co-star on Learned and The Waltons, appeared together in the 1974 made-for-TV film Hurricane.
Learned appeared in Nurse Mary Benjamin's hospital drama Nurse, which aired on CBS for six episodes in spring 1981 and later in 1980, 1981-1982. Despite being well-received on television, the series was not a ratings hit and only lasted for a few seasons. Nevertheless, Learned was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1982, and she received yet another Emmy for her work in 1982. She appeared in the illustrious 1988 drama Hothouse and 1989 sitcom Living Dolls, as well as a number of television movies and reunions in the 1990s.
Learned appeared on ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live as part of the "baby swap" storyline on both programs in 2005. Danielle Atron, the show's main villain, appeared in the second season of The Secret World of Alex Mack.
In five episodes from the show's fifth season, she appeared as Mrs. Wilk. Shirley Smith appeared on ABC's's 'General Hospital,' she was Shirley Smith. Learned played Katherine Chancellor on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless in 2011, filling in for Jeanne Cooper, who was on extended medical leave from the series.
Learned and her partner Peter Donat appeared with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in the late 1960s. She has appeared in numerous stage productions on Broadway, off Broadway, and elsewhere, including the 2006–2007 national touring version of On Golden Pond. In the fall of 2008, she appeared in Innovation Theatre Works' production of Driving Miss Daisy, playing Daisy Werthen's son Boolie opposite Willis Burks II as Hoke and Dirk Blocker. In March 2013, she reprised her role as Hoke opposite Lance E. Nichols.
