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Marian Seldes, Christina Rouner and she were awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance for "Three Tall Women" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Mother-in-law of Traci Wald Donat (daughter of Helen Reddy), who married her son Lucas Donat on July 20, 1984.

She was awarded the 1983 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "A Month in the Country" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Learned won three Emmy Awards playing the role, and another Emmy for her next foray into series TV, Nurse (1981).

In an obvious play on her unique name, Michael Learned once portrayed a widow named "Mike" (Yardner) on a 1973 episode of Gunsmoke.

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).

She and her husband Peter acted together with San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in the early 1970s.

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.