Meet Bruce Learned, Elizabeth Duane Hooper

Michael Learned is an American actress, best known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons. For her role in The Waltons, she has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times.

Michael Learned parents: Meet Bruce Learned, Elizabeth Duane Hooper

Michael Learned was born on April 9, 1939, to Elizabeth Duane “Betti” and Bruce Learned in Washington, D.C. Her father was a diplomat and her maternal grandfather was an attaché for the United States Embassy in Rome.

She is the oldest of her parents’ six daughters and her younger sisters are; Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit, and Philippa.

According to her, her parents never explained why she was given a masculine name. She was quoted saying, “All he told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I was a girl, so I was called Michael.”

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