Michael Learned

Michael Learned was born on Apr 09, 1939 in USA. Michael Learned's big-screen debut came with The Waltons - Season 1 directed by Harry Harris in 1972. Michael Learned is known for Monsters directed by Jennifer Lynch, Evan Peters stars as Jeffrey Dahmer and Richard Jenkins as Lionel Dahmer. Michael Learned has got 7 awards and 11 nominations so far. The most recent award Michael Learned achieved is Caorle Film Festival, Venice Italy. The upcoming new tvshow Michael Learned plays is Monsters - Season 2 which will be released on Sep 21, 2022.

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, La famille des collines (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 American Playhouse: All My Sons (1987) with co-star James Whitmore.