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Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She 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.
Apr 4, 2022 · Michael Learned, who played Olivia Walton on the classic TV drama "The Waltons", left the series in 1973 after nine seasons. She explained that she was exhausted by the stop-and-start nature of TV acting and the fact that she was playing a sweet character. She later returned as an older version of Olivia in the reunion films.
Actress: The Waltons. Four-time Best Actress Emmy Award winner Michael Learned was born on April 9, 1939 in Washington, D.C. The oldest of six daughters of a U.S. State Department employee, she was raised on her family's farm in Connecticut.
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Michael Learned. Actress: The Waltons. Four-time Best Actress Emmy Award winner Michael Learned was born on April 9, 1939 in Washington, D.C. The oldest of six daughters of a U.S. State Department employee, she was raised on her family's farm in Connecticut.
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Whatever happened to Michael Learned, who played Olivia Walton on 'The Waltons?' She is still alive and well at 81 years old.
Oct 19, 2020 · Michael Learned Finally Explained Her Decision to Leave ‘The Waltons’. By Dan Clarendon. Oct. 19 2020, Updated 7:53 p.m. ET. Source: Getty Images. For decades, fans of 1970s television have wondered: Why did Michael Learned leave The Waltons? After all, the CBS drama had made Michael a household name — for most people, anyway.
Michael Learned Interview: "The Waltons" Reunion and 50th Anniversary. Four-time Emmy Award-winning actress Michael Learned is best known as Olivia Walton in The Waltons, a long-running CBS series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II.
