Olivia Wilde: Smart and Beautiful
Olivia Jane Wilde
(née Cockburn; pron.: /ˈkoʊbərn/; March 10, 1984) is an American actress and
fashion model. She has appeared in a number of television and film productions
such as The O.C., The Black Donnellys, House, Tron: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens,
and In Time.
Wilde has appeared
in the films The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, Conversations with Other Women and
Turistas. She became known for her role on The O.C. as Alex Kelly, although she
originally auditioned for the role of Marissa Cooper. She has also appeared in
the Dashboard Confessional music video for "Stolen", and the French
Kicks music video for "So Far We Are".
In 2007, Wilde was a
part of the ensemble cast of the short-lived 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 appeared in the play Beauty on the
Vine, a political thriller, playing three different characters.
Wilde joined the
cast of the Fox medical drama House in September 2007, making her first
appearance the episode "The Right Stuff". She played a secretive and
bisexual young internist with Huntington's disease, Dr. Remy Hadley, nicknamed
Thirteen, who was handpicked by House out of a number of applicants to join his
team. Wilde told Star magazine how she sometimes took cues from her character
even when she was not working, saying, "I'm now convinced that I'm a
doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your
spleen.'" On October 7, 2008, Wilde appeared in a video on
funnyordie.com showing how much she enjoys registering early for the 2008
Presidential election, "Olivia Wilde Does It Early". She appeared
in the 2009 comedy film Year One.
Wilde at 2010 San
Diego Comic-Con International
She played Quorra in
Disney's Tron: Legacy, which opened on December 17, 2010. In the December
2010/January 2011 issue of Details Wilde was quoted as saying she panicked
the first time she saw her costume for the movie: "I saw the boobs on the
suit and I said, 'Oh hell no. I'm doing kicks and backflips in this
thing?'" She also reprised her role as Quorra in Tron: Uprising in the
episode "Isolated". She was seen in flashbacks of Paige's past, where
she befriended Quorra, not knowing that she was an ISO (isomorphic algorithm)
at the time.
Wilde played Ella
Swenson in the science fiction Western film Cowboys & Aliens. Her character
works with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig), and Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford),
to save their town from evil aliens. Wilde played Sabrina McKay in the comedy
film The Change-Up. Her character is the love interest of Mitch Planko, who was
played by Ryan Reynolds. In January 2011, it was announced that Wilde was cast
alongside Chris Pine in the film People Like Us, released in June 2012.
In August 2011, it
was announced Wilde would be leaving House to pursue her film career. Wilde
left House a few months later, in the episode "Charity Case". In
May 2012, Wilde returned to House for the final two episodes, "Holding On"
and "Everybody Dies". The New York Observer has described Wilde as
having a "throaty voice" and the "wide, teal-eyed charisma of
Hollywood in the days of yore". She has cited Meryl Streep, Sigourney
Weaver, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn as acting
inspirations.
She won the 2006 US
Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Actress for Bickford
Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006), and in 2008 at the Teen Choice Awards, she was
nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star Female for House.
Also in 2008, Wilde was honored alongside Jesse Eisenberg with the Vail Film
Festival Rising Star Award.
Wilde is a board
member of Artists for Peace and Justice, which provides education and health
services in Haiti, and the ACLU of Southern California. Previously, Wilde was a
supporter of the youth voter organization, 18 in '08. She serves on their
advisory council and appeared in a public service announcement that debuted
June 30, 2008. In 2008, Wilde campaigned with actors Justin Long and her
former House castmate Kal Penn for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee
Barack Obama.
She also appeared in
the MoveOn.org mock-PSA "supporting" the rights of the healthcare
insurance industry. She also appeared in the Global Poverty Project.
Wilde was commended by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworkers'
union, for supporting the Fair Foods campaign. -Wikipedia
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