Olivia Birkelund is an American actress, best known for her role as Arlene Vaughan in the ABC daytime soap opera ''

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''.

Life and career

Birkelund attended

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

and studied acting at the

Circle in the Square Theatre School Circle in the Square Theatre School is a non-profit, tax exempt drama school associated with Circle in the Square Theatre; it is the only accredited conservatory attached to a Broadway theatre. It offers two 2-year full-time programs: a Profes ...

. In 1991 she made her television debut as Sondra Hill in the ABC daytime soap opera, ''

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''. In 1995, Birkelund began starring as Arlene Dillon Vaughan Chandler, Hayley's alcoholic mother, in the ABC soap opera ''

''. She appeared in show to 2002 on recurring basis. In 2008 she had another soap role, on CBS's ''

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''. Birkelund appeared in films '' Letters from a Killer'' (1998), ''

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'' (1999), '' Uninvited'' (1999), '' Far from Heaven'' (2002), and on made for television movies ''Night Sins'' and '' On the Edge of Innocence'' (1997). She guest-starred on ''

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'', '' Homicide: Life on the Street'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'', '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', '' Third Watch'', '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', and '' The Good Wife''. In 2014, Birkelund had a recurring role in the ABC drama '' Black Box''.

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