biography of Olivia Wilde

biography of Olivia Wilde

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biography of Olivia Wilde

 

Wilde in 2022
Born
Olivia Jane Cockburn

March 10, 1984 (age 41)
New York City, U.S.
Citizenship
  • United States
  • Ireland
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • producer

Years active

2003–present

Works

Filmography
Spouse
Tao Ruspoli
(m. 2003; div. 2011)
Partner(s)
  • Jason Sudeikis
    (2011–2020)

Children

2

Olivia Wilde : 

 (born Olivia Jane Cockburn, /ˈkbərn/ KOH-bərn, March 10, 1984) is an American actress and director. She played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House (2007–2012), and appeared in the action films Tron: Legacy (2010) and Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the romantic drama film Her (2013), the comedy film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), and the horror film The Lazarus Effect (2015). She made her Broadway debut playing Julia in 1984 (2017).

Wilde made her directorial debut with the teen comedy film Booksmart (2019), which received critical acclaim and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. She directed the thriller film Don't Worry Darling (2022), which she also starred in.

Early life : 

Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984. She grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., while spending summers at Ardmore in Ireland. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002 A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, she derived her professional surname from Irish author Oscar Wilde, and began using it in high school to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used pen names.   She was accepted to Bard College, but deferred her enrollment three times to pursue acting. She then studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin For a short time, Wilde's family also had a house in Guilford, Vermont 

Wilde has a sister five years older and a brother nine years younger.  Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is a British journalist who was born in the London suburb of Willesden and raised in Ireland. Her mother, Leslie Cockburn (née Redlich), is an American producer on 60 Minutes and a journalist.

Writer Christopher Hitchens was the Cockburn family's tenant in Washington, D.C., and served as Wilde's babysitter. Her grandfather, British novelist Claud Cockburn, and his sons Alexander and Patrick Cockburn were also journalists, and her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer.

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