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It sounds short-term, but it looks like our Robin is getting herself a storyline! Here are some details provided by Soap Opera Source.

General Hospital has cast four time Emmy winner Michael Learned in a short term role as a cancer patient who will interact with some of the staff at the hospital. According to the report from Soap Opera Digest, Learned will share scenes with Robin (Kimberly McCullough), Patrick (Jason Thompson) and Lisa (Brianna Brown), in addition to some of the other hospital staff.

Probably best known for her role on The Waltons as Mrs. Olivia Walton from 1972-79, she also appeared on ABC’s All My Children and One Life to Live in 2005 as the Honorable Judge Turner. Some of her other television credits include, St. Elsewhere (1984), Hothouse (1988), Murder, She Wrote (1989), Who’s The Boss (1989), Profiler (1998), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003). More recently she appeared on the hit NBC series, Scrubs (2006-09) as Ms. Wilk.

Learned has also been nominated for four Golden Globes (Best TV Actress – Drama in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976) for her portrayal of Mrs. Olivia Walton. In addition, she also garnered multiple Emmy nominations (1973-78; 1981-1982), winning in 1973 for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Drama Series – Continuing) for her role on The Waltons. In 1974 and 1976 she received wins for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, also for The Waltons series. In 1982, she received an Emmy win (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series) for her portrayal on the television series, Nurse.

Learned’s stay at GH will be short term and she will begin taping in mid-March and air in early April.

Kimberly has been nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category for the 3rd Annual TV Guide Soap Opera Spirit Awards! Kimberly has been previously nominated in 2009 along with Jason Thompson in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Duo for their work on General Hospital: Night Shift. The eligibility time period for this year is between Jan. 01, 2009 – Dec. 31, 2009. A panel of TV Guide Canada editors chose the nominees and winners. Honorees will be announced on a special podcast edition of Michael Fairman’s On Air, On Soaps on March 9, 2010 at 7 p.m. PT along with being printed in the weekly Suds Bubble feature on TVGuide.ca the next day. Good luck, Kimberly! Also, rumor has it that the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Pre-Nominations will be announced on Friday, February 26th. Ballots are due on February 19th and judging DVDs for Final Round panels will be sent the week of March 16th, 2010. So between we know for sure that sometime between February 19th and March 16th, the pre-nominations will be announced. *Fingers crossed for Kimberly*

Kimberly has created her own fan page on Facebook! She’s sharing her thoughts, pictures, videos, etc. with her fans. You can become a fan by clicking here. Pretty cool! The Facebook page seems to be synced up with her Twitter account, so if you’re not a Facebook person, you can still read the stuff Kimberly posts.

This is perhaps the coolest update I’ve ever had to post. Kimberly has a YouTube page! And she’s uploaded some of her stuff from her directing career. How awesome is that? Check out her first uploads! Don’t forget to subscribe, favorite, rate (5-stars of course!) and comment! The shorts included on the directing reel are “Life After,” “Rosie,” and “Lil’ Star.” I think at the end of the Paper Planes vid that’s a shot of Kimberly and her brothers. Wow do they tower over her!

Here’s her directing reel:

And a video from her Christmas trip to Samoa:

Looks like Kimberly’s got a new project she’s working on while GH is dark for winter break! Here’s what we have been able to sleuth so far… It looks like Kimberly’s doing some directing again! Yay! She Tweeted a few days ago that she was editing for something called “Girls Night Out.” Now, a film editor, LaShawn McGhee, Tweeted yesterday that she was sitting with director Kimberly McCullough editing a piece. This sounds cool. We’re glad that Kimberly gets to do this kind of stuff outside of GH. Hopefully we’ll get to see what the two have come up with sometime soon! Here are the tweets: