Career
As an adult, she has appeared in films, including the cult film Repo Manitoba, and on television as a child actress, including Little House on the Prairie, Charlie"s Angels, Soap, and as an adult in Fame, and Saint Elsewhere. She also appeared in the pilot episode of The Incredible Hulk (as a little girl whom the Hulk saves from drowning in a lake). Barash, who was also raised in New York City, began her work in the entertainment industry at the age of five years.
During her early years of acting, singing and dancing in classic musicals on stage in New York, Olivia starred as “Baby June” in Gypsy with Angela Lansbury.
Moving to Hollywood as a teen with her family, she attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, California and graduated in 1982. In 1983, Barash appeared on the cover of Los Angeles disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer"s "Rodney On the Roq" volume #3 album as a uniformed, high school teen in a classroom.
The album was a collection of punk rock and "new wave" songs featured on Bingenheimer"s late night radio show on 106.7 KROQ-FM in Los Los Angeles In 1984 she appeared as a guest on Bingenheimer"s radio show to promote Repo Manitoba
She is currently directing and producing with Fallout Entertainment: Friends Of The Viper Room.
This project was inspired by her accounts and experiences while working at the Los Angeles club The Viper Room back in its heyday in the mid 1990s.