Michael Learned
Michael Learned ( born April 9, 1939 in Washington, DC) is an American film and theater actress.
Life
Early life and personal life
Michael Learned grew up as the eldest of six daughters of the first ten years of her life on a farm in Connecticut. In 1950 she moved with her family - her father worked for the State Department of the United States - shortly after Austria and then to England. In London, she attended a private school and discovered her love for acting.
The name Michael she received from her father, who had expected a boy and picked the name in advance. When it was a daughter, he decided to keep the name.
At the age of only 17, she married in September 1956, already 28 -year-old Canadian-American actor Peter Donat. The two got in the course of their 15-year marriage produced three sons together; nonetheless be made available in February 1972 divorce. Learned has since been married three more times. 1974 to 1977 she was married to the stagehands Glenn Chadwick. Her third marriage, she came in with William Parker in December 1979. It is not known when her marriage to Parker failed; certain, however, is that Learned is married to the producer and director John Doherty since 1991.
Michael Learned is godmother of the American actress Amanda Plummer.
Career
Learned's career began in 1962, and led them as a guest star in some even today known series, including Gunsmoke. His international breakthrough came, however, only in 1972, when she assumed the role of mother Olivia Walton in the television series The Waltons, and was to be seen in this way until 1979 in more than 160 episodes. The success of the series was also her own. So she was nominated from 1973 to 1976 four times in a row for a Golden Globe Award; she was also nominated in the period 1973-1978 for six Emmys, from which they could take home with two awards. After the end of the series Learned was the mid-1990s for some movies about The Waltons also in front of the camera.
However, Learned's career went off the famous television series unabated. She stood in numerous television series, including Who 's the Boss? or Promised Land before the camera. A younger audience is probably her role as Mrs. Wilk in the comedy series Scrubs - a term; a part that she played between 2006 and 2009 eight times. Except for a few movies, including the biopic Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story in 1993, remained her acting career in front of the camera mostly confined to the medium of television.
Your theater career has learned both to Broadway, where she starred, among others, in 1993 in The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein, as well as to smaller playhouses in California, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Her repertoire of roles included, among other things, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII and Queen Elizabeth I..