Date of Birth
10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name
Olivia Jane Cockburn
Height
5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Olivia Wilde Biography
Although born in ny, Wilde was raised in Washington D.C. and visited faculty there, yet as in Massachusetts, where she graduated in 2002. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is Irish, giving her twin US and Irish nationality and facilitating her transient study at the Gaiety faculty of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
After showing within the short-lived US TV show, "Skin" (2003), she created her Hollywood debut within the woman adjacent (2004) and then came to public notice in "The O.C." (2003), however it absolutely was as "Dr. 'Thirteen' Hadley" in "House M.D." (2004) that she achieved international stardo
Spouse
Tao Ruspoli (16 January 2003 - 29 September 2011) (divorced)
Trade Mark
Cat-like eyes
Trivia
Granddaughter of Claud Cockburn, who used the pen name James Helvick and Jean Ross.
Daughter of Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn.
Attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, through 8th grade.
Ex-sister-in-law of Bartolomeo Ruspoli and Aileen Getty.
Ex-daughter-in-law of Dado Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri and Debra Berger.
Attended Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
Spent one month on the set of The Girl Next Door (2004) before being asked to join the cast.
Raised in Washington, DC.
Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Has a dog named Paco who, as of July 26, 2006, is the new mascot for Old Navy.
Best friends with Patrick Fugit and Megalyn Echikunwoke.
Won Best Actress at HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, 2006 for her role in Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006).
Ranked #95 on FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list of 2006.
Has dual citizenship between Ireland and the United States.
Eloped with her husband and was married in a bus in Washington, Virginia when she was 19. As of 2011, separated and seeking divorce.
Once won a pancake eating contest while in Australia.
Ranked #15 on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100 Women" of 2011, after being ranked #1 in 2009. Previously had been rated #97 in 2008 and and #61 in 2005.
Is a natural blond.
Is a vegan.
Is Irish-American.
Was rumored to play the lead Bond girl in Bond 23.
Replaced Kate Hudson in Butter (2011).
Close friends with Kal Penn.
Niece of Alexander Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn and Sarah Caudwell.
A lifelong lover of classic cars, the actress owns a 1958 Chevy Biscayne and a 1959 Thunderbird Convertible. Once owned a 1966 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors.
Adopted her professional name "Wilde" after she developed a profound respect and admiration for Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde and his body of literature.
Has an older sister named Chloe, and a younger brother named Charlie.
Voted #30 in the 2011 Ask Men list of the "top 99 most desirable women". Previously she ranked #49 in 2010.
Ranked #5 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Ranked #18 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".
Mick Jagger was once her parents' dinner guest at their Washington D.C. home, and she had an impromptu brownie-eating contest with Chris Farley when, at age 10, she visited the set of "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
Her well-connected journalist parents once helped her get a casting office job in Los Angeles, hoping the experience would dissuade her from taking up acting.
Her paternal grandmother, Jean Ross, was the inspiration for Christopher Isherwood's character "Sally Bowles", portrayed on film in I Am a Camera (1955) by Julie Harris, and Cabaret (1972) by Liza Minnelli.
Voted #23 in Ask Men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012.
Personal Quotes
(In the interview Wilde at Heart to Sara Vilkomerson to The ny Observer on April fifteen 2007) When folks saw "The Black Donnellys" (2007), they did not comprehend it was a similar lady from "The O.C." (2003). i am a natural blonde, however I feel sort of a brunette. I feel like folks treat me currently how I ought to be treated. folks used to be shocked, after I was blond, that I wasn't stupid. I used to induce these comments that I swear folks thought were compliments. Like, 'Oh! you are smart!' - like they could not believe it.
Trying to search out this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical could be a waste of your time. therefore i am happy to play the sport. however i'm additionally thirsty for input. i am not a dunce whose solely ability is knowing the way to take a photograph, you know? And at the tip of the day i believe it makes me slightly less replaceable.
[Of her wedding, at age 19] it had been an excellent eight years, however it had been time for each folks to maneuver.
[on TRON: Legacy (2010)] it had been a shot to induce into that suit, however if i used to be a true astronaut i would not expect that to be simple either. It's all a part of the method, it is a challenge which is what creates the rewards.
I needed to be on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) as a solid member. therefore I visited my mom at 10 years recent and said, 'This is what i need.' and she or he said, 'Great, well, you are going to own to travel to Second town and you are going to own to audition.' and she or he took me seriously. and that i suppose that is what forever reasonably helped propel me and take myself seriously is that I had supportive oldsters that were in no manner pressuring me to try to to something. however if I declared that I needed one thing, they took me seriously. which is commonly what it takes after you arrange to be an artist.
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