Background
Cole was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Arvelia (née Cage) and William Cole.
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Olivia Cole
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She made her screen debut in the daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1969 and later appeared in over 30 shows and films. Cole starred in the Columbia Broadcasting System sitcoms Szysznyk from 1977 to 1978 and Report to Murphy in 1982. She also was cast in the short-lived American Broadcasting Company drama series Brewster Place with Oprah Winfrey in 1990, and previously appeared in another miniseries North and South, Book I (1985).
She also guest-starred on Police Woman, Family, Los Angeles Law and Murder, She Wrote.
Cole"s Broadway credits include The School for Scandal, You Can"t Take lieutenant with You, The Merchant of Venice, and The National Health. In film, she appeared in Heroes (1977), Coming Home (1978), Some Kind of Hero (1982), Go Tell lieutenant on the Mountain (1984), Big Shots (1987), more recently in First Sunday (2008), as well as in the television movies Something About Amelia (1984) and The Women of Brewster Place (1989).
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Cole is an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
