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Alaina Reed (b. November 10, 1946) played Olivia Robinson on Sesame Street from 1976 to 1988. She also appeared in the specials Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, A Special Sesame Street Christmas and Don't Eat the Pictures, and in the movie Follow That Bird.
At the start of her career, Reed appeared as a Jet magazine cover girl, and was known to her friends as Tiny. She graduated from South High in 1964.[1]
Beginning in the fall of 1985, Reed played landlady Rose opposite Marla Gibbs in the sitcom 227. That series was taped in California, while Sesame Street is taped in New York. For a few years, she continued to work on both shows, but finally left Sesame Street in 1988. 227 continued until 1990.
Beginning in 1989, Alaina Reed was professionally known as Alaina Reed Hall, following her marriage to the late Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played Harry in Harry and the Hendersons and the title role in Predator. She has remained active as an actress in television, films, commercials, and cartoon series, appearing as a regular on the short-lived WB sitcom Cleghorne, and making appearances in Friends, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, NewsRadio, and the film Cruel Intentions.