Line #18 Creator/OliviaWilde


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3	->''"When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds."''
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5	Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn[[note]]pronounced "COE-burn"[[/note]]; March 10, 1984 in New York City, New York) is an American actress and director.
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7	She is known for starring in TV series including ''Series/TheOC'', ''Series/{{House}}'' and ''Series/{{Vinyl}}'', and as well as films including ''Film/TronLegacy'', ''Film/AlphaDog'', ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', ''Film/TheChangeUp'', ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' and ''Film/YearOne''. She has received additional recognition and acclaim for her work as a filmmaker; she wrote and directed a short film titled ''Free Hugs'' in 2011, made her feature directorial debut in 2019 with ''Film/{{Booksmart}}'', and directed a second film, ''Film/DontWorryDarling'', which was released in 2022. In 2020, she signed on to direct an unannounced film in Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse.
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9	Wilde is the daughter of Andrew Myles Cockburn, a British journalist; her mother, Leslie Cockburn, is an American-born former ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' producer and [[http://rappnews.com/2017/07/15/rappahannock-resident-leslie-cockburn-launches-bid-for-u-s-congress-seat/ who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Virginia in 2018]]. Her uncles, Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, also worked as journalists, as have her cousins, Stephanie Flanders and Laura Flanders (daughters of her aunt Claudia Cockburn by [[Music/FlandersAndSwann Michael Flanders]]). Her older sister, Chloe Cockburn, is a civil rights attorney in New York; her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer, and her paternal grandfather, Claud Cockburn, was a novelist and journalist.
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11	As many of her family are writers, and writers with pen names, she lifted the surname of Creator/OscarWilde to create her current name, and changed it properly while in high school.
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13	[[InsanelyInternationalAncestry Wilde has notable and diverse ancestral history]]. Her father's upper-class British ancestors lived in several countries during the height of colonialism and the British Empire, including Beijing (where her paternal grandfather was born), Kolkata, Mumbai, Cairo, and Tasmania (one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was Governor of Hong Kong). Wilde's father's ancestors include abolitionist and Anglican minister James Ramsay, politician George Arbuthnot, lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, and Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet (and therefore current Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne). Wilde's ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, Manx, and German; she is also of more distant Sephardi Jewish descent from a paternal ancestor, Ralph Bernal (1783–1854), a British Whig politician and actor.
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15	She lived in Ireland when she was a child and studied acting at Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. She has dual citizenship in America and Ireland.
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17	Her parents were friends of Music/MickJagger. When Olivia was 4 years old, she was eavesdropping one night on a conversation between diplomat Richard Holbrooke and singer Mick Jagger, until Jagger noticed her and shooed her to bed. She later played one of the leading roles in ''Series/{{Vinyl}},'' which Jagger co-created and executive-produced (and whose son, James, is a co-star).
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19	She also married Italian prince Tao Ruspoli in 2003 (when she was 19), but divorced him in 2011. She became engaged to Creator/JasonSudeikis in 2013, but in 2020 announced they had separated. Sudeikis and Wilde have a son named Otis (born in 2014) and a daughter named Daisy (born in 2016). From 2021 to 2022, she was in a high-profile relationship with Music/HarryStyles, who she directed in ''Don't Worry Darling''.
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22	!!Filmography:
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25	[[folder:Live-Action Films]]
26	* ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door\|2004}}'' (2004) as Kellie
27	* ''Film/ConversationsWithOtherWomen'' (2005) as Bridesmaid
28	* ''Film/AlphaDog'' (2006) as Angela Holden
29	* ''Film/BickfordShmecklersCoolIdeas'' (2006) as Sarah Witt
30	* ''Film/{{Turistas}}'' (2006) as Bea
31	* ''Film/TheDeathAndLifeOfBobbyZ'' (2007) as Elizabeth
32	* ''Film/{{Fix}}'' (2008) as Bella
33	* ''Film/YearOne'' (2009) as Princess Inanna
34	* ''Film/TheNextThreeDays'' (2010) as Nicole
35	* ''Film/TronLegacy'' (2010) as Quorra
36	* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' (2010) as Madonna
37	* ''Film/{{Butter}}'' (2011) as Brooke Swinkowski
38	* ''Film/TheChangeUp'' (2011) as Sabrina [=McKay=]
39	* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' (2011) as Ella Swenson
40	* ''Film/FreeHugs'' (2011) as Head Hooper
41	* ''Film/InTime'' (2011) as Rachel Salas
42	* ''Film/OnTheInside'' (2011) as Mia Conlon
43	* ''Film/{{Deadfall}}'' (2012) as Liza
44	* ''Film/PeopleLikeUs'' (2012) as Hannah
45	* ''Film/TheWords'' (2012) as Daniella
46	* ''Film/DrinkingBuddies'' (2013) as Kate
47	* ''Film/{{her\|2013}}'' (2013) as Blind Date
48	* ''Film/TheIncredibleBurtWonderstone'' (2013) as Jane
49	* ''Film/{{Rush\|2013}}'' (2013) as Suzy Miller
50	* ''Film/ThirdPerson'' (2013) as Anna Barr
51	* ''Film/BetterLivingThroughChemistry'' (2014) as Elizabeth Roberts
52	* ''Film/TheLongestWeek'' (2014) as Beatrice Fairbanks
53	* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' (2015) as Zoe [=McConnell=]
54	* ''Film/LoveTheCoopers'' (2015) as Eleanor Cooper
55	* ''Film/{{Meadowland}}'' (2015) as Sarah
56	* ''Film/BlackDogRedDog'' (2016) as Sunshine
57	* ''Film/LifeItself'' (2018) as Abby Dempsey
58	* ''Film/AVigilante'' (2018) as Sadie
59	* ''Film/RichardJewell'' (2019) as Kathy Scruggs
60	* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'' (2021) as [[spoiler:Gozer]]
61	* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' (2022) as Bunny (also directed)
62	* ''Film/{{Babylon\|2022}}'' (2022) as Ina Conrad
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65	[[folder:Live-Action Series]]
66	* ''Series/{{Skin}}'' (2003 -- 2004) as Jewel Goldman
67	* ''Series/TheOC'' (2004 -- 2005) as Alex Kelly
68	* ''Series/TheBlackDonnellys'' (2007) as Jenny Reilly
69	* ''Series/{{House}}'' (2003 -- 2012) as Remy "Thirteen" Hadley
70	* ''Series/{{Portlandia}}'' (2014 -- 2015) as Brit
71	* ''Series/DollAndEm'' (2015) as Olivia
72	* ''Series/{{Vinyl}}'' (2016) as Devon Finestra
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75	[[folder:Director]]
76	* ''Film/FreeHugs'' (2011)
77	* ''Film/{{Booksmart}}'' (2019)
78	* ''Film/DontWorryDarling'' (2022)
79	* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' (TBD)
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82	[[folder:Voice Acting]]
83	* ''Videogame/TronEvolution'' (2010) as Quorra
84	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' (2012) as Various voices
85	* ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' (2012) as Quorra
86	* ''WebAnimation/TheAnnoyingOrange'' (2013) as Rainbow Fairy / Fruit Bat
87	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' (2014) as Denise
88	* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' (2014 -- 2020) as Charlotte Moore
89	* ''Series/SonOfZorn'' (2017) as Radiana
90	* ''WebOriginal/EscapeFromVirtualIsland'' (2020) as Bianca
91	* ''WesternAnimation/DCLeagueOfSuperPets'' (2022) as Lois Lane
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95	!! Tropes associated with Olivia Wilde:
96	* AdvertisedExtra: She is fourth-billed in ''Film/{{her\|2013}}'', yet receives about five minutes of screen time.
97	* BrainyBrunette: Actually she's blonde but dyed her hair brunette. Most of her roles are fairly intelligent as well. In regards to the trope, she's said:
98	-->''"I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blonde, that I wasn't stupid. I used to get these comments that I swear people thought were compliments. Like, 'Oh! You're smart!' — like they couldn't believe it."''
99	* FakeBrit: Played the British Suzy Miller in ''Film/Rush2013''.
100	* MsFanservice: Frequently flaunts her body in works, from [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbian scenes]] as a HospitalHottie in ''Series/{{House}}'', to [[SpyCatsuit skin tight bodysuits]] in ''Film/TronLegacy'', to tanktops and SkinnyDipping in ''Film/DrinkingBuddies'', to {{Streaking}} with ToplessnessFromTheBack in ''Film/ThirdPerson'' to full-frontal nudity in ''Series/{{Vinyl}}''.
101	* RomanceOnTheSet: She dated Harry Styles after they met on the set of ''Don't Worry Darling'', which Wilde directed and Styles starred in.
102	* StageName: She chose the surname of "Wilde" after Creator/OscarWilde.
103	* StarMakingRole: While she has appeared in film and TV throughout the mid-2000s onward, her roles in ''Series/{{House}}'' and ''Film/TronLegacy'' were the ones that ultimately kick-started her career.
104	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
105	** She auditioned for the role of Naomi in ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', but was deemed too old to play Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's wife, even though he's ''ten years older'' than she is (the part went to Creator/MargotRobbie).
106	** She screen-tested for the role of Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', but didn't get the part. In the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse she was also considered for the role of Comicbook/LoisLane for ''Film/ManOfSteel'' (the part went to Creator/AmyAdams) and Comicbook/HarleyQuinn for ''Film/{{Suicide Squad\|2016}}'' (the part went to Creator/MargotRobbie. Again).
107	** An early draft of the script for ''Film/UnderTheSkin'' included a Scottish married couple, who'd turn out to be aliens in disguise and Wilde was among the actresses considered for the role.
108	** She was once considered for the role of Gamora in ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy\|2014}}'', but she turned down the role.

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