Editing Michael Learned (section)

==Early life==
Learned was born in [[Washington, D.C.]], the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Duane ("Betti"; née Hooper) and Bruce Learned, a [[diplomat]].<ref>{{Cite book |first=Barbara J. |last=Love |title=Foremost women in communications: a biographical reference work on accomplished women in broadcasting, publishing, advertising, public relations, and allied professions|publisher=Foremost Americans Publishing Corporation|year=1970|isbn=9780835204149 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5EUAQAAIAAJ&q=betti+hooper+learned}}</ref> Her maternal grandfather also worked for the [[United States Foreign Service]] (of the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]]), and was an attaché for the [[United States Embassy in Rome]] ([[Italy]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/07/16/archives/elizabeth-b-hooper-is-married-in-rome-the-daughter-of-attache-at.html|title=Elizabeth B. Hooper is Married in Rome – The Daughter of Attache at the American Embassy in Italy Wed to Bruce Learned|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 1936|access-date=January 20, 2014}}</ref> She has five younger sisters: Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit and Philippa.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/12/07/federal-official-thomas-morris-dies-at-age-81/6ae698ee-6a5c-4979-96b6-1cdf2461568c/| title = FEDERAL OFFICIAL THOMAS MORRIS DIES AT AGE 81 - The Washington Post| newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> She lived on a [[Connecticut]] farm for the first 10 years of her life. Learned said that her parents never explained why she received a masculine first name, once saying of her father: "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."<ref name="nj">{{cite news |last1=Cartwright |first1=Al |title=Olivia Walton by another name is just Michael Learned |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97197440/michael-learned/ |access-date=March 8, 2022 |work=The News-Journal |date=April 26, 1980 |location=Delaware, Wilmington |page=3|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> When she was 11, Learned moved to Austria, where her father worked for the [[United States Department of State|U.S. Department of State]]. At this time, she attended Arts Educational School, Tring, (now the [[Tring Park School for the Performing Arts]] in [[Tring]], [[Hertfordshire]], [[England]], ([[United Kingdom]]). During this time, she discovered the [[theater]] and [[acting]], and decided to make acting her life's work.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/41242/Michael-Learned/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226042300/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/41242/Michael-Learned/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-02-26|title=Michael Learned – Biography|location=New York|issn=0362-4331|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2014|access-date=January 20, 2014}}</ref>