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ABOUT OLIVIA WILDE
as Dr. Remy Hadley
Remy Hadley

Date of birth: March 10, 1984

Birth place: New York City, New York

Eye color: Blue-green

Height: 5 feet, 7 1/2 inches

Family: Olivia Wilde's husband is Tao Ruspoli (an Italian director and photographer, founder of 'Los Angeles Filmmakers Foundation', LAFCO); Parents: Andrew Cockburn (Irish)journalist & Leslie Redlich Cockburn (producer and journalist). Her paternal grandfather was the Irish journalist and novelist Claude Cockburn (aka.James Helvick). She has a sister, Chloe Cockburn, writer and designer.

Education: Georgetown Day School, Phillips Academy (Andover), The Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin, Ireland)

Olivia Wilde's bio: Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Cockburn. Although she grew up in Washington D.C., she spent her summers in Ireland and studied in the renowned Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. Her parents are journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn and she is the granddaughter of writer James Helvick.

Olivia Wilde attended Phillips Andvor and was nearly kicked out seven times. After graduating, she moved to Los Angeles. She got an internship job as a casting director for the movie "The Girl Next Door." She had a small role in this movie. She also appeared in "Alpha Dog, Skins, and The Black Donnellys." Probably her best known performance is playing Alex Kelly, opposite Mischa Barton's character, Marissa, in "The O.C." Her character Alex had a bisexual relationship with Marisa. Her next big break came when she was cast as an intern in House.

Olivia met and married her husband, Tao Ruspoli when she was 18 years old. Her husband Tao, is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and flamenco guitar player. They currently reside in Los Angeles, California.
OLIVIA WILDE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Non-acting careers: Casting Assistant for The Girl Next Door

Olivia Wilde's movies: Conversations with Other Women, Alpha Dog, Turistas, Fix, The Death and LIfe of Bobby Z, Bickford, Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, Camjackers, The Girl Next Door

TV shows: Skin, The O.C., The Black Donnellys, House MD

Stage: Beauty on the Vine

Olivia Wilde's big break: Skin

Best known for:The O.C.


Awards:
  • Vail Film Festival Female Rising Star Award
  • US Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award

Upcoming projects: Year One(2009), In Northwood


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NOTABLE QUOTABLES
OLIVIA WILDE TRIVIA
OLIVIA WILDE FAN SITES
  • I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. (Olivia Wilde)
  • Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. (Olivia Wilde)

  • (on competing with the other actors on the 3rd season "House" team) We decided very early on that the only way to deal with the competitiveness that was obviously in the air was to joke about it constantly. (Olivia Wilde)
  • (on her role as Alex in "The O.C.") I had no idea how many people it would reach and how many lives it would touch. I still get letters from young women around the world saying that I help them accept themselves and how they're different from their peers and whether it's, you know, their sexuality or just because they feel like an outsider much like my character was. (Olivia Wilde)
  • Inspiration is the key to everything. (Olivia Wilde)

  • Has graced both Maxim's "Hot 100" and FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" lists.
  • At the age of sixteen, she ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes for a food eating contest!

  • She enjoys yoga.

  • Her first celebrity crush was George Clooney.

  • She shaved her head when she aswas in seventh grade, had piercings when she as 11, and got a tattoo when she was 13.

  • Her natural hair color is blonde.

  • She loves horror films. She considers The Shining to be one of the most scariest films she has even seen.

  • Olivia lost out to French Actress, Eva Green, for the role of Vesper Lynd, the Bond Girl in the 2006 Bond Film Casino Royale.

  • Prior to becoming a full time actress, she worked behind the camera as an acting assistant. When she started acting is when she used the pen name Olivia Wilde.

  • Olivia is a dual citizen (US and Ireland).

  • Olivia was a rebel teenager; she shaved her hairhead ansand usually spent her money inon tattoos and piercings.






OLIVIA WILDE PHOTOS
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Olivia Wilde and husband Tao Ruspoli.

Olivia Wilde as a blonde in The O.C.
Blonde ambition! Olivia Wilde in The O.C.

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A very fashion-y Olivia Wilde pic!
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Olivia Wilde at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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