Olivia Wilde mini-bio: Olivia was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. During her summers, Olivia traveled abroad, including Ireland, where she studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. She has appeared in such films as The Girl Next Door and Alpha Dog. Her birthname is Olivia Cockburn, and she is the daughter of journalist Andrew Cockburn, and the granddaughter of writer James Helvick. She attended Phillips Academy as well as the Gaiety School of Acting in Ireland. After graduating from Phillips, she moved to L.A. and, while working at a casting agency, she landed a small role in the feature Girl Next Door starring Elisha Cuthbert. Olivia decided to pursue acting full-time and was soon therafter cast in one of the leading roles in the short lived U.S. television show Skin. She is also well known for her recurring appearances on The OC as Alex. Olivia is the wife of Tao Ruspoli, an Italian American documentary filmmaker, photographer and flamenco guitar player.
Next Wilde has appeared in Alpha Dog (2006). Of the role Olivia said: “I’m Emile Hirsch’s crazy, violent nymphomaniac girlfriend.” Wilde also appeared in Conversations with Other Women (2005), Camjackers (2006) and Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas (2006) before landing a larger role in the horror pic Turistas (2006). “I think because it was written well, it had the girls being very powerful and overcoming all their obstacles and not running around in a wet t-shirt and walking into the attic with a butcher knife. It wasn’t that type of film. It was smart and well written and we had a good captain, the director John Stockwell was someone we could trust, being in vulnerable wardrobe; being in vicarious situations without many clothes on. He was someone we could trust and we knew he would take care of us.” she also had a very small role in Running With Scissors (2006) and appeared in the Dashboard Confessional music video for “Stolen”, and the French Kicks music video for “So Far We Are”. She was reportedly considered to play Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale but Eva Green eventually won the role.
In 2007, Wilde was a part of the ensemble cast of the 14-episode NBC mid-season drama The Black Donnellys. Her character, Jenny Reilly, was the lone principal female character in the series following the lives of an Irish-American family tied to organized crime in New York City. Also in 2007 Wilde starred in The Death and Life of Bobby Z and filmed Fix (2008). Olivia appeared in 11 episodes of the high profile series House M.D. When Wilde was cast on House, she had no idea how long she’d be around. Her character, nicknamed Thirteen, was competing for a spot on Dr. House’s fellowship team — and Wilde herself was fighting for a job in the regular cast. Apparently Thirteen will return in future episodes of House. Next for Wilde is The Year One (2009), an adventure comedy in which she will star alongside Jack Black and Michael Cera.
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