Violet Weston is played by Valerie Carpenter Bernstein.  Valerie was raised 30 minutes from Osage County. As a young adult, she moved to LA and began working in television and film. A few of her LA roles provided work on: General Hospital, The Lottery, One Shoe Makes It Murder and the film The Patty Hearst Story. Upon moving to Las Vegas, she took to the stage in productions of Doubt, Death of A Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Wolves (Las Vegas Valley Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor). Valerie appeared most recently in A Public Fit’s Small Mouth Sounds (Best Ensemble). She also appeared in APF’s productions When the Rain Stops Falling and The Year of Magical Thinking. She is most proud of her satellites, Sabrina and Wil, and thanks her husband, Richard, for living with Violet these last few months. “This cast and crew is EVERYTHING.”