Michael Learned

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Role

Writer | Actress

Date of birth

04/09/1939

Place of birth

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Also known as

Miss Michael Learned

مایکل لرند

麥可·勒尼德

Awards

4 wins & 8 nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards

4 wins & 4 nominations

Golden Globes, USA
Golden Globes, USA

4 nominations

Michael Learned

Biography

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. The family moved to Austria when she was age 11, and it was while attending boarding school in England that she fell in love with the theater and decided to become an actress. Learned married Oscar winner Robert Donat's nephew Peter Donat, a Canadian citizen, when she was 17 years old, a marriage that lasted 17 years and produced three sons. She learned her craft while acting for the Shakespeare Festivals in both Canada and the U.S. while simultaneously raising a family. She and her husband Peter acted together with San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in the early 1970s. Her breakthrough came when she was appearing in an ACT production of Noël Coward's "Private Lives", where she was spotted by producer Lee Rich, who cast her as Olivia Walton in his new television series about a Depression era family, The Waltons (1972). Learned won three Emmy Awards playing the role, and another Emmy for her next foray into series TV, Nurse (1981). She escaped typecasting as Olivia Walton (although she re-prised the role that made her famous in a 1995 TV-movie reunion) while appearing on numerous shows and TV movies, including top-drawer, made-for-TV specials such as the 1986 adaptation of Arthur Miller's All My Sons (1987) with co-star James Whitmore.

Known For

Second Acts

Second Acts

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8.1
Nurse

Nurse

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7.8
The Waltons

The Waltons

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7.6

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Role: Vivian Emery
Power

Power

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5.7
Acting
Role: Governor Andrea Stannard
Loggerheads

Loggerheads

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7.2
Acting
Role: Sheridan
The Alarmist

The Alarmist

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5.2
Acting
Role: Beth Hudler
Touched by Love

Touched by Love

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6.6
Acting
Role: Dr. Bell
Lethal Eviction

Lethal Eviction

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4.4
Acting
Role: Elsa
Acting
Role: Self
After Life

After Life

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5.4
Acting
Role: Gloria
Second Acts

Second Acts

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8.1
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Role: Lee Marston
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Role: Self
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Role: Narrator
Second Chances

Second Chances

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Role: Blanche
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Role: Self
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