Back in 2016, Dolly Parton, a famous country singer, teamed up with a young actress named Alyvia Alyn Lind on a TV show called Home & Family. Alyvia was just 9 years old and had played a young Dolly in a movie called Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors. They were there to talk about the movie and sing a special song together called “Angel Hill.”
Dolly explained that she wrote “Angel Hill” a long time ago after her baby brother passed away. She said, “My family had a lot of kids, and my mom would give each of us older ones a new baby to look after. The baby she was carrying was supposed to be mine, but we lost him. It made me so sad, and I wrote this song about it.” Even though she wrote it years earlier, Dolly decided it was perfect for the movie, so she recorded it with Alyvia.
The movie, Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors, told the story of Dolly’s childhood. Alyvia played young Dolly, while Jennifer Nettles acted as Dolly’s mom and Ricky Schroder played her dad. More than 13 million people watched the movie when it first aired on TV! It even won a special award called the Tex Ritter Award in 2016 for being a great film with country music.
Later that year, a follow-up movie called Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love came out and was so good it got nominated for an Emmy award.
Since playing Dolly, Alyvia has kept acting in lots of fun projects. She’s been in a Netflix show called Daybreak, where she played a character named Angelica Green, and other shows like Future Man. She also acted in movies like Overboard and a horror show called Chucky, which she’s working on now. Before all that, from 2011 to 2021, Alyvia was on a soap opera called The Young and the Restless, playing a girl named Faith Newman.
Alyvia comes from a family of actors. Her mom, Barbara Alyn Woods, is an actress, and her dad, John Lind, helps make movies and shows. Her older sisters, Natalie and Emily, are actors too! Alyvia started acting young, appearing in shows like NCIS, Revenge, and Masters of Sex.
As for Dolly, she’s kept sharing her music and stories. In 2019, she started a Netflix series called Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings, where each episode is inspired by one of her songs. Both Dolly and Alyvia are still doing amazing things, and their song “Angel Hill” is a beautiful memory they created together!
