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Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American actor and TV personality. She is better known as the former co-host of G4TV's Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira, where much of the show was dedicated to her comedic antics, not to mention her Ms. Fanservice moments. She left G4 in 2010 for a correspondent position at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which was her breakout into the mainstream, after which she garnered more prominent acting roles, including financial analyst Sloan Sabbith in The Newsroom and Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse.

It's also worth noting that opinions on her are highly divisive in regard to her "authenticity" as a geek, mainly due to her sexy image. However, she does have an awareness of the controversy and plays to it occasionally.

In 2021, she began dating John Mulaney and gave birth to their first child later that year.


Selected Filmography:

Film

Television


Tropes associated with Munn's work include:

  • And Starring: Got this credit when she appeared in the G4 Holiday Reunion special in 2020.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Her preferred comic style.
  • Gamer Chick: People will debate this until they're blue in the face, but yes, Olivia Munn does have geek/gamer cred. Her biography Suck It, Wonder Woman! details that she played video games as a kid, she can assemble PCs, and likes Star Wars. Also, in her biography she says she always felt a kinship towards geeks since she was a socially awkward child.
  • Gasshole: (0:37)
  • Hiccup Hijinks: She occasionally gets hiccups when getting too nervous, which is usually remedied with deep breathing.
  • Leg Focus:
    • It goes along with the rest of the Fanservice. Notably, the introduction of her character on Chuck was a long, slooooooow pan up her legs as she strutted in slow-mo across the Buy More while wearing a short skirt.
    • Also notably, she played Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse, who is considered Marvel's poster child for this trope, to the point that her backside gets more Male Gaze than her chest. And yes, she DID wear Psylocke's iconic purple leotard in the film, with Munn directly commenting on the strappy thigh-highs in interviews about the costume. She actually insisted on wearing that outfit, because it was more accurate to the comics.
  • Ms. Fanservice:
    • And how. This actually led to a mini-controversy when she was hired on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart since she doesn't have a background in comedy and it was perceived she was only hired for eye candy.
    • Noted in-series in The Newsroom, when the EP offers her an effective promotion. When her character suggests others who might be better equipped to do the job, the EP points out that "they're not going to have your legs".
  • She Really Can Act: Between the hot dog swallowing, pie-jumping and sexy cosplay, people forget that Olivia Munn is first and foremost, an actor. Her role as Sloan Sabbith in The Newsroom has made critics sit up and take notice. invoked
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's afraid of balloons.

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