Olivia Barash Biography
Olivia Barash is an American actress. She began her career as a young actor, appearing on television shows like Little House on the Prairie, Charlie’s Angels, and Soap. She went on to play the lead in the short-lived sitcom In the Beginning, which aired in 1978.
Olivia Barash Age
She was born on 11 January 1965, in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Olivia is 59 years old as of January 2024.
Olivia Barash Height
Olivia stands at a height of 5′ 1″ (1.55 m).
Olivia Barash Family
Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Olivia Barash Career
She began her career as a young actor, appearing on television shows like Little House on the Prairie, Charlie’s Angels, and Soap. She went on to play the lead in the short-lived sitcom In the Beginning, which aired in 1978. She also played the lead in the Walt Disney television movie Child of Glass. As a young adult, Barash gained recognition for her supporting appearances in Repo Man (1984), Tuff Turf (1985), Patty Hearst (1988), and Floundering (1994). Barash began his professional acting career at the age of eleven. During her early years of performing, singing, and dancing in classic musicals on stage in New York.
She was the first child actress to get the New York Critics Circle Award. She moved to Hollywood as a teenager with her family and graduated from Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California, in 1982. Barash featured in the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk, mimicking the famous “flower girl” scene from James Whale’s Frankenstein. In this version, she meets the Hulk, but their friendship is cut short when her hunting father kills him with a rifle, leading the Hulk to throw him hundreds of feet into a nearby lake.
Barash also appeared as a guest in two episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in 1977, and in 1978, he was cast in a main role on the sitcom In the Beginning, which followed a conservative Catholic priest and a liberal, socially conscious nun who run a mission in Baltimore; the series ran only five episodes on CBS, but a total of nine were filmed before it was canceled. The same year, she appeared in Walt Disney’s television picture Child of Glass, playing the spirit of a young girl murdered during the Antebellum era. Barash played a UFO cultist in the 1984 film Repo Man.
She starred alongside Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader, and Kim Richards in the 1985 teen drama Tuff Turf. In 1987, Barash appeared as Maxie Sharp in the television series Fame. In 1988, she played a supporting role in Paul Schrader’s movie Patty Hearst. Oliver Stone cast Barash in The Doors in 1990, as a Sunset Strip folk singer who performs her original song, Who’s Walking Away, published by It’s True You Boys Music (BMI). Barash eventually signed with Warner Chappell Music as a songwriter/artist in 1992. Throughout the 1990s and into the twenty-first century, she focused on recording and performing her music.
Olivia Barash Net Worth
Barash has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Olivia Barash Movies
1989 21 Jump Street
1988 St. Elsewhere
1987 Fame
1987 Ohara
1984 Night Court
1984 Spencer
1983 One Day at a Time
1981 ABC Weekend Special
1981 Little House on the Prairie
1981 The Time Crystal
1979 Alice Melissa Lloyd
1979 The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
1979 Out of the Blue
1978–79 ABC Weekend Special
1978 In the Beginning
1978 ABC Afterschool Special