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Last actress to play opposite Steve McQueen, before his death, from cancer, at age 50 in 1980.

She attended Tazewell High School in Tazewell, Virginia, USA.

In 2011, Ms. Harrold graduated with a Master's degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles, and is now a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California. As of 2018, she maintains a private clinical practice in Los Angeles. In 1978 and 1979, she appeared in multiple episodes of "The Rockford Files." where she portrayed therapist Dr. Megan Dougherty on Black Mirror (1978) (the two-part or extended episode from 1978), and Love Is the Word (1979) (a single part episode from 1979).

Her earliest credited role was on The Doctors (1963), in the role of Nola Dancy Aldrich (#1) for about two years. When she departed "The Doctors" in 1978, her role was recast with Kathleen Turner, also in her first credited role, Nola Dancy Aldrich (#2).

Has a daughter named Elizabeth Buckley Harrold O'Donnell with her ex-husband Lawrence O'Donnell.

She attended Mills College in Oakland, California, USA, majoring in drama.

She studied drama at Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

Her ex-husband, Lawrence O'Donnell, was a long time (1995 - 2010) political analyst on MSNBC, before getting his own show, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (2010) on MSNBC.

Immediately after the third episode (sometimes listed as the second part of a two part episode, sometimes listed as a special or extended episode, officially, Harrold only appeared in two episodes of Detektiv Rockford - Anruf genügt (1974)), in which she portrayed therapist Dr. Megan Dougherty on Black Mirror (1978) (the two-part or extended episode from 1978), and Love Is the Word (1979) (a single part episode from 1979), with star James Garner (depending on the episodes are counted, all two, or three, of these episodes were written by writer-producer David Chase); her next credited role was portraying Lauren Bacall in Bogie (1980) (a TV-movie about the last years of life and death of Bacall's first husband Humphrey Bogart); and then her next role, as Dotty, the female lead in Jeder Kopf hat seinen Preis (1980), was the final film finished by Steve McQueen before his death. Lauren Bacall was a real life friend of James Garner's, and McQueen was Garner's friend and next door neighbor on Oakmont Drive in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Just four years before Harrold was the last female lead opposite McQueen in his (1980) final film, Bacall was the last female lead opposite John Wayne in his (1976) final film, The Shootist - Der letzte Scharfschütze (1976), and just three years before that, in a 1973 interview, Wayne named Garner as, in his opinion, the best male actor in Hollywood.

In 2011, Ms. Harrold graduated with a Master's degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles, and is now a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California. As of 2018, she maintains a private clinical practice in Los Angeles.

Her ex-husband, Lawrence O'Donnell, was Democratic Chief of Staff for the Senate Finance Committee, from 1993 to 1995, which was during the Clinton Administration.