American actress and film maker

This article is about the american actress whose original surname was Cockburn. For the English actress whose give birth list is Olivia Wilde, see Olivia Cooke

Olivia Wilde ( hold Olivia Jane Cockburn COH-burn ; [ 1 ] March 10, 1984 ) is an american english actress and film maker. [ 2 ] She played Remy “ Thirteen ” Hadley on the medical-drama television receiver series House ( 2007–2012 ), and appeared in the films Tron: Legacy ( 2010 ), Cowboys & Aliens ( 2011 ), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone ( 2013 ), and The Lazarus Effect ( 2015 ). In 2017, Wilde made her Broadway debut, playing the character of Julia in 1984. In 2019, she directed her first gear film, the adolescent comedy Booksmart, for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature .

early liveliness

Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984. [ 3 ] She grew astir in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while spending summers at Ardmore in Ireland. [ 6 ] She attended secret educate at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. and boarding educate at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002. [ 7 ] Wilde derived her stream name from irish writer Oscar Wilde, [ 7 ] and changed her surname while in high school to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used penitentiary names. [ 8 ] She was accepted to Bard College, but deferred her registration three times in arrange to pursue acting. [ 9 ] She then studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. [ 7 ] Wilde ‘s beget, Leslie Cockburn ( née Redlich ), is an american producer on 60 Minutes and journalist. Her church father, Andrew Cockburn, is besides a diarist, and is a son of british novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn. He was born in London and raised in Ireland. For a inadequate time, Wilde ‘s family besides had a house in Guilford, Vermont. She has a baby five years older and a brother nine years young. [ 7 ] Her grandfather Claud Cockburn and his sons Alexander and Patrick Cockburn besides worked as journalists and her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer. Writer Christopher Hitchens was the Cockburn kin ‘s tenant in Washington, D.C. and served as Wilde ‘s babysitter. [ 5 ] Some of Wilde ‘s parental scottish ancestors were upper-class and lived in many locations at the height of the british Empire, including Peking ( where her parental grandfather was born ), Calcutta, Bombay, Cairo, and Tasmania. The Cockburns derive from the lawyer, estimate, and literary name Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn. One of Wilde ‘s great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was governor of Hong Kong. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Through her church father ‘s family Wilde is related to George Cockburn, who was responsible for burning down Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. [ 13 ] Wilde ‘s lineage includes English, German, Irish, Manx, and Scottish ; she is besides of 1/64th Sephardic jewish descent through her great-great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Bernal ( 1783–1854 ), a british Whig politician and actor. [ 14 ] [ 15 ]

career

2003–2012 : early career, House, and breakthrough

Wilde in 2007 wilde appeared as “ Jewel Goldman ” on the ephemeral television receiver series Skin ( 2003–2004 ). She became know for her recurring function as Alex Kelly on the adolescent play television receiver series The O.C. ( 2004–2005 ). She was in the films The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ), Conversations with Other Women ( 2005 ), Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas ( 2006 ), Turistas ( 2006 ) and Alpha Dog ( 2006 ). In 2007, she appeared in the off-broadway theater production of Beauty on the Vine, a political thriller, playing three different characters. She was besides in The Death and Life of Bobby Z ( 2007 ) and the ephemeral drama television receiver series The Black Donnellys ( 2007 ). In September 2007, Wilde joined the cast of the checkup play television series House. [ 16 ] She played the character of Remy “ Thirteen ” Hadley, a bisexual internist with Huntington ‘s disease, who was handpicked by House out of a numeral of applicants to join his checkup team. Her first gear appearance was in the episode “ The Right Stuff “. Wilde appeared in the drollery film Year One ( 2009 ) as Princess Inanna. She starred in Disney ‘s Tron: Legacy ( 2010 ) as Quorra. Inspired by her award-winning journalist and objective film maker parents, Wilde has served as executive producer on several objective short films, such as Sun City Picture House ( 2010 ), which is about a community in Haiti that rallies to build a movie theater after the black 2010 earthquake .
Tron: Legacy premiere, December 2010 Wilde at thepremiere, December 2010 In August 2011, it was announced Wilde would be leaving House to further pursue her film career ; she left a few months later, in the sequence “ Charity Case “. [ 17 ] Wilde starred in Cowboys & Aliens ( 2011 ) as Ella Swensen, who works with other characters to save the earth from evil aliens, and besides starred in the drollery The Change-Up ( 2011 ). She was besides in the films In Time ( 2011 ), On the Inside ( 2011 ) and Butter ( 2011 ). In 2011, Wilde became a global stigmatize ambassador for the cosmetic company Revlon, which featured her in their commercials. Wilde made her direct and screenwriting debut with the film Free Hugs ( 2011 ) for Glamour Magazine’ south short movie serial, which was screened at respective festivals. In May 2012, Wilde ‘s character, Remy “ Thirteen ” Hadley, returned for the series finale of House for two episodes, “ Holding On “ and “ Everybody Dies. ” She starred in the film People Like Us ( 2012 ), Third Person ( 2012 ), The Words ( 2012 ) and as Liza in Deadfall ( 2012 ), a thriller about two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino burglarize, and their improbable reunion during another family ‘s Thanksgiving celebration. In 2012, Wilde was featured in PBS docu-series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which was inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn ‘s book of the like list. The docu-series follows Wilde as she learns of the struggles women face in Nairobi, Kenya. She besides produced the brusque movie, Baseball in the Time of Cholera ( 2012 ), which explored the cholera epidemic in Haiti .

2013–2018 : Mainstream career and Broadway introduction

Her at the film’s premiere in 2013 Wilde ( right ) with the cast ofat the film ‘s premiere in 2013 In 2013, Wilde wrote an article called the, “ Do ‘s and Don’ts of Turning 30, ” which was published in Glamour Magazine. [ 18 ] She starred in and executive produced Drinking Buddies ( 2013 ). She had a support character as Jane, a magician ‘s assistant, in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone ( 2013 ). She besides played Suzy Miller in the biographic drama Rush ( 2013 ), about James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and had a star function in the film Her ( 2013 ), which was lauded by critics, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] and received accolades from the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. [ 21 ] She has served as executive producer for early objective inadequate films : The Rider and the Storm ( 2013 ), about Timmy Brennan, a New York ironworker from Breezy Point, Queens who lost everything he owned when Hurricane Sandy hit and Body Team 12 ( 2015 ), which follows the team tasked with collecting the dead at the height of the Ebola outbreak. The film went on to win Best Documentary Short at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, [ 22 ] and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary ( Short Subject ) at the 88th Academy Awards. [ 23 ] wilde starred as Elizabeth Roberts, a trophy-wife customer who enters a priggish pharmacist ‘s life sentence and takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly mangle in Better Living Through Chemistry ( 2014 ). She starred as Beatrice Fairbanks in The Longest Week ( 2014 ), as the center of a love triangle between an affluent vagrant and his best supporter. [ 24 ] In 2015, she was the brand ambassador of H & M ‘s Conscious Exclusive political campaign. [ 25 ] She starred in the thriller The Lazarus Effect ( 2015 ) as Zoe, a medical research worker who is by chance killed, then revived with a heaven-sent serum with unfortunate side-effects. [ 26 ] Wilde besides starred in and produced the drama Meadowland ( 2015 ), that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 17, 2015. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] She played Eleanor in Love the Coopers ( 2015 ). In 2016, Wilde directed a music television for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, teaming up with conductor of photography Reed Morano. She then worked with American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, directing the music video recording for their birdcall “ Dark Necessities “. Wilde starred as Devon Finestra in HBO ‘s rock ‘n ‘ roll play television series Vinyl ( 2016 ). besides in 2016, Wilde besides directed an acclaim live table reading of Hannah and Her Sisters at The New York Times ‘s Center Theatre. [ 29 ] The frame included Wilde as Hannah. [ 30 ] Wilde stated that Hannah and Her Sisters is “ equitable a perfect script, and I knew an audience would enjoy having the probability to focus on the flair of the write, which is what the bouncy Reads let for ”. [ 31 ] Her sword ambassador partnership with Revlon ended in 2016. In 2017, Wilde made her Broadway introduction portraying the role of Julia in 1984. [ 32 ] It opened at the Hudson Theatre in New York City on June 22 ( previews beginning May 18 ) for a restrict run until October 8, 2017. In May 2017, Wilde became headman post militant of True Botanicals, a cosmetics and skin care company. [ 33 ] Her documentary inadequate Fear Us Women ( 2017 ) follows canadian civilian Hanna Bohman, who has spent the last three years in Syria as a unpaid soldier battling ISIS. As a member of the YPJ, an all-female Kurdish army, Hanna gives an inside look at the women fighting for liberation in Syria. [ 34 ]

A Vigilante at Wilde during the red rug premier ofat SXSW 2018 In 2018, Wilde appeared in A Vigilante. [ 35 ] Its world premier was at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018. [ 36 ] It was released March 29, 2019. [ 37 ] The same year, Wilde starred in the drama Life Itself. [ 38 ] The film was released on September 21, 2018, received negative reviews from critics, and performed ailing at the box position. [ 39 ] [ 40 ]

2019–present : Directorial debut and current work

Wilde made her conduct debut with the high school comedy Booksmart, [ 41 ] which was released on May 24, 2019. [ 42 ] As of June 27, 2019, it was rated 97 % “ fresh ” on Rotten Tomatoes, from 271 critics ‘ reviews. [ 43 ] The Washington Post stated, “ [ as the film progresses, ] Wilde ‘s filmmaking skills become more and more apparent, bursting forth in a third gear act that builds into something beautiful and tied transcendent. ” The Los Angeles Times wrote that it “ leaves you feeling unaccountably aspirant for the submit of humanness – and the country of american english shield comedy besides ”, and The Wall Street Journal noted, “ nothing fishy, chic, quick or more joyous has graced the big screen in a long meter. ” [ 43 ] The movie won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards on February 8, 2020. [ 44 ] Wilde next appeared in Richard Jewell in 2019, playing Atlanta-Journal Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs who died in 2001. [ 45 ] The film was criticised for depicting Scruggs as offering to trade sex with an FBI agent in come back for confidential information. [ 46 ] The editor-in-chief of The Atlanta-Journal Constitution wrote in an loose letter that this picture incident was “ entirely assumed and malicious ”. [ 47 ] Employees of the newspaper demanded the film have a big disavowal that “ some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and aesthetic license. ” [ 48 ] [ 49 ] The film was accused of perpetuating a sexist trope of women journalists exchanging sex for information. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Wilde defended her function and stated that there was a sexist double standard, in that Jon Hamm ‘s FBI agent character was not held to the lapp examination. [ 52 ] Commentators noted that Wilde ‘s character was based on a real person, whereas the FBI agent was an amalgamation of multiple characters from the original script. [ 52 ] They besides stated that the determination of the film was to expose and condemn the character character assassination of Jewell ; however, in the march, the film commits the like character assassination of Scruggs. [ 50 ] She besides directed Wake Up, a short film starring Margaret Qualley. [ 53 ] Wilde will direct and play a support character in Don’t Worry Darling, a erotic psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife, [ 54 ] starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Kiki Layne and Chris Pine, for New Line Cinema from a screenplay by Katie Silberman. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] She is besides attached to direct Perfect, a biopic about gymnast Kerri Strug for Searchlight Pictures, [ 57 ] an ignoble holiday-comedy film for Universal Pictures, [ 58 ] and a female-centered superhero film as character of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters franchise. [ 59 ]

activism

The Insider at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011 Wilde onat the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011 In 2008, Wilde campaigned with actors Justin Long and her then-current House castmate Kal Penn in support for the democratic Presidential campaigner Barack Obama. [ 60 ] Wilde was a patron of the youth voter constitution, 18 in ’08. She serves on their advisory council and appeared in a public service announcement that debuted June 30, 2008 which encouraged youth to vote at the 2008 election. [ 61 ] She appeared in the MoveOn.org mock-PSA “ supporting ” the rights of the healthcare insurance industry. [ 62 ] Wilde was praised by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworkers ‘ union, for supporting the Fair Foods campaign. [ 63 ] Wilde is one of the board of directors at Artists for Peace and Justice, which provides education and health services in Haiti, [ 64 ] and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. Wilde is a celebrity influencer/activist for RYOT, a Los Angeles-based media ship’s company. [ 65 ] On June 30, 2015, she introduced democratic Presidential campaigner Hillary Clinton at a crusade event in New York City. [ 66 ] Wilde starred in a PSA released on March 21, 2016, for World Down Syndrome Day, aboard 19-year-old AnnaRose from New Jersey who has Down Syndrome. [ 67 ] Wilde is widely known as a feminist. [ 68 ] In 2013, she appeared in a video recording clip for Gucci ‘s “ Chime for Change ” campaign that aims to raise awareness and funds of women ‘s issues in terms of education, health, and justice. [ 69 ] She participated in the 2017 Women ‘s March in Washington, D.C. and the 2018 Women ‘s March in Los Angeles, California. [ 70 ] She is a athletic supporter of Planned Parenthood and Time ‘s Up. Wilde ‘s mother, Leslie, was the democratic campaigner for Virginia ‘s fifth congressional zone in the 2018 U.S. midterm examination election. She lost to the Republican Denver Riggleman .

personal life

On June 7, 2003, when she was 19 years old, Wilde married italian film maker and musician Tao Ruspoli, a member of the aristocratic Ruspoli family. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] They were married in Washington, Virginia, on a school bus with only a pair of witnesses. She later said the marry occurred in an abandoned school bus because it was the lone place where they could be completely alone, as the marriage was a secret at the clock. [ 8 ] On February 8, 2011, she and Ruspoli announced that they were separating. [ 73 ] Wilde filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on March 3, 2011, citing “ irreconcilable differences ”. [ 74 ] The disassociate was finalized on September 29, 2011. Wilde did not seek spousal support, and the copulate reached a private agreement on property division. [ 75 ] Wilde began dating American actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis in November 2011. [ 76 ] They became engaged in January 2013. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] The couple have two children : a son, Otis, born in 2014, [ 79 ] and a daughter, Daisy, born in 2016. [ 80 ] Sudeikis and Wilde ‘s relationship ended in November 2020, as Sudeikis told GQ magazine in a feature published the follow July. [ 81 ] In January 2021, Wilde began dating Harry Styles after meeting in November 2020 during the film of Wilde ‘s Don’t Worry Darling. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Wilde considered herself a pescetarian in 2013, [ 84 ] although she has been both vegan and vegetarian at unlike times. [ 85 ] She was voted PETA ‘s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2010. [ 86 ]

Awards and nominations

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