Olivia Nicole Burnette is an American

United States

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 actress.

Career

She began her career at age six. Perhaps her most famous role was that of Dorothy Jane Torkelson on the NBC sitcom The Torkelsons, later renamed Almost Home. She also notably played two different roles on the NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 series Quantum Leap. She made a guest appearance in the episode "Another Mother" before later appearing as Sam's sister Katie in the episode "The Leap Home."

She has had a number of film and TV appearances since then, including appearances on both JAG

JAG (TV series)

JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...

and its spinoff, NCIS

NCIS (TV series)

NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...

(though playing different characters). Both shows were produced by Donald Bellisario

Donald Bellisario

Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS...

, who had also created Quantum Leap.

Personal life

She resides in southern California with her husband, singer/songwriter/producer Julian Sakata, and her five-year-old stepson, Rain.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Riptide Riptide (TV series) Riptide is a TV detective series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray. Riptide was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell, and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter...	Lulu Flynn	Episode: "Robin and Marian"
1986	Webster Webster (TV series) Webster is an American situation comedy that premiered on ABC on September 16, 1983, and ran on that network until September 11, 1987, but continued in first-run syndication until 1989...	Carol	Episode: "McGruff"
1986	Our House	Joanie	Episode: "See You in Court"
1987	Celebration Family Celebration Family Celebration Family is a made for television drama film. It is based on the real story of a married couple, James and Janet Marston, who, after discovering that they are not able to have more children naturally, start to adopt instead...	Ellie	TV movie
1987	Planes, Trains & Automobiles Planes, Trains & Automobiles Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures. It was written, produced and directed by John Hughes...	Marti
1988	Our House	Joanie	Episode: "Artful Dodging"
1988	Designing Women Designing Women Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer...	Hannah Shackelford	Episode: "Great Expectations"
1988	To Heal a Nation	Child	TV movie
1988	A Stoning in Fulham County	Rachel	TV movie
1988	Disaster at Silo 7	Jennifer Fitzgerald	TV movie
1990	Guns of Paradise Paradise (TV series) Paradise is an American Western family television series, broadcast by CBS from 1988 to 1991. Created by David Jacobs and Robert Porter, the series presents the adventures of fictitious gunfighter Ethan Allen Cord, whose sister left her four children in his custody when she died.-Synopsis:Paradise...		Episode: "Dangerous Cargo"
1990	Jake and the Fatman Jake and the Fatman Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a spin-off of this series...	Holly	Episode: "My Buddy"
1990	Why, Charlie Brown, Why? Why, Charlie Brown, Why? Why, Charlie Brown, Why? is the 33rd prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on March 16, 1990 and was also nominated for an Emmy.-Plot:...	Janice Emmons (voice)	TV movie
1990	Quantum Leap	Susan Bruckner Katie Beckett	Episode: "Another Mother" Episode: "The Leap Home - Part 1"
1990	Charles in Charge Charles in Charge Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series which starred Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board...	Melanie Colfax	Episode: "Fair Exchange"
1990	Casey's Gift: For Love of a Child	Mickey Bolen	TV movie
1991	Wings	Becky Wilder	Episode: "Duet for Cello and Plane"
1991	Final Verdict	Nora Rogers	TV movie
1991	Hard Promises Hard Promises (1991 film) Hard Promises is a 1991 film directed by Martin Davidson. It stars Sissy Spacek and William Petersen.-Plot:A man who doesn't like stable work environments has been away for too many years when he finds out his wife has divorced him and is planning to remarry...	Beth
1991	Backfield in Motion	Betsy Dooley	TV movie
1991–1992	The Torkelsons	Dorothy Jane Torkelson	20 episodes
1992	A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story	Kristan Solomon	TV movie
1992	Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story	Shanna Harper	TV movie
1993	Almost Home	Dorothy Jane Torkelson	13 episodes
1994	The Gift of Love	Louise	TV movie
1995	The Quick and the Dead	Katie
1996	Eye for an Eye	Julie McCann
1996	The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years was a CBS miniseries that aired in 1996. It is a "midquel" to the original miniseries, The Thorn Birds, that aired on ABC in 1983....	Justine O'Neill	TV movie
1998	Jekyll Island	Savanah Goodyear
1998	JAG JAG (TV series) JAG is an American adventure/legal drama television show that was produced by Belisarius Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television and, for the first season only, NBC Productions...	Marie Wetzel	Episode: "Father's Day"
1998	Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror is a 1998 motion picture and the fifth installment of the Children of the Corn series. It is also the third Children of the Corn movie released by Dimension Films and Miramax Films...	Lily	Video
1999	Mercy Point Mercy Point Mercy Point was a science fiction series that ran from the fall of 1998 to the midsummer of 1999 on UPN. The series, set in the mid-23rd century, took place on a deep-space medical space station that catered to the medical needs of both humans and aliens, and served as a crossroads for both human...	Val	Episode: "C.J."
2000	Up, Up, and Away!	Nina	TV movie
2001	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple	Annie Flagg	TV movie
2001	A Mother's Testimony	Dede Carlson	TV movie
2003	Peacemakers Peacemakers (TV series) Peacemakers is an American crime fiction television series about forensic science in the Old West. It was filmed in Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. The series premiered July 30, 2003, on the USA Network. The show was cancelled after one season of nine episodes.-Plot:This very interesting...	Molly	Episode: "No Excuse"
2004	CSI: NY CSI: NY CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...	Madison Haynes	Episode: "Grand Master"
2005	NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...	Sarah Lowell	Episode: "SWAK"
2006	Flourish Flourish (film) Flourish is a film written, produced and directed by Kevin Palys and starring Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Leighton Meester and Ian Brennan .-Plot:...	Bridget Burnham
2008–2010	Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California...	Homeless Woman	5 episodes
2009	Dexter Dexter (TV series) Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...	Pam	Episode: "Dirty Harry"
2010	The Closer The Closer The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...	Ann Weber	Episode: "Off the Hook"

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2000	Mountain Cry	Associate producer

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Console
2004	Halo 2 Halo 2 Halo 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie Studios. Released for the Xbox video game console on November 9, 2004, the game is the second installment in the Halo franchise and the sequel to 2001's critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved...	ILB: Rani Sobek (voice)	Xbox

External links

• Olivia Burnette at TV.com
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