Line #23 Creator/OliviaThirlby


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3	Olivia Jo Thirlby (born October 6, 1986) is an American actress from New York City best known for her roles as Leah in ''{{Film/Juno}}'' and as Judge Cassandra Anderson in ''Film/{{Dredd}}''.
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5	Thirlby came out as bisexual in 2011. She got married to Jacques Pienaar, a sound engineer whom [[RomanceOnTheSet she met on the set of]] ''Dredd'', in 2014; Pienaar reportedly filed for a divorce in 2021.
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7	!Roles
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9	* ''{{Film/United 93}}'' (2006) as Nicole Carol Miller
10	* ''{{Film/Juno}}'' (2007) as Leah
11	* ''Film/{{The Secret\|2007}}'' (2007) as Samantha Marris
12	* ''Film/TheWackness'' (2008) as Stephanie Squires
13	* ''Film/{{No Strings Attached\|2011}}'' (2011) as Katie Kurtzman
14	* ''Film/TheDarkestHour'' (2011) as Natalie
15	* ''Margaret'' (2011) as Monia Sloane
16	* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' (2012) as Judge Anderson
17	* ''The Stanford Prison Experiment'' (2015) as Christina Maslach
18	* ''Film/TheWeddingRinger'' (2015) as Alison Palmer
19	* ''Film/AboveTheShadows'' (2019) as Holly
20	* ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'' (2019) as Claire
21	* ''Series/TheLWord: Generation Q'' (2019-20) as Rebecca Dowery
22	* ''[[Series/YTheLastMan2021 Y: The Last Man]]'' (2021) as Hero Brown
23	* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' (2023) as Lilli Hornig
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25	!Tropes in her work include:
26	* BigOlEyebrows: She has very prominent dark eyebrows. These make her characters' faces more noticeable, in contrast with her pale skin, thin face and small eyes.
27	* DawsonCasting: She started out playing a lot of teenage characters, while around 20 or 21.
28	* DyeingForYourArt: She dyed her hair a metallic blonde to play her character in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', Judge Anderson, though it had to be continually re-dyed during filming as her roots kept showing. Other roles had more minor examples, where it's made slightly lighter with highlighting.
29	* HollywoodHypeMachine: She was billed as one of Hollywood's "New Wave" by ''Vanity Fair'' in 2008, but has had a pretty modest career since then.
30	* NiceGirl: A large number of her characters are sweet, kind women.
31	* PlayingAgainstType: Her role in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' as Judge Anderson was quite unlike any before or since, as she's an {{action girl}} with an arc of growing tougher over the film. Virtually all of her other roles are decidedly non-action oriented, with most characters being much gentler (though Anderson is still a {{wide eyed idealist}} starting out).
32	* QueerCharacterQueerActor:
33	** In ''Film/TheWhiteOrchid'' she plays a detective who appears to be a lesbian.
34	** On ''Series/TheLWord: Generation Q'' she played a bisexual woman like herself.
35	* RavenHairIvorySkin: The looks of all her characters, given that she has them naturally (except in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', when it's dyed a very artificial blonde). In almost every case, they're depicted as beautiful (not hard, again, as she's already good-looking).
36	* RomanceOnTheSet:
37	** As stated above, she had met her (now ex) husband on the set of ''Dredd''.
38	** In Creator/ElliotPage's words, he and Thirlby "had sex all the time" when filming ''Juno''.
39	* WhenSheSmiles: Due to her having a very charming grin which shows all her teeth, the characters she plays in darker roles look very lit up if they smile.

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