Since House M. Her performance in 's Rush was arguably her most challenging; not only did she work in a British accent, but she was also starring in a period piece and playing a real person - Suzy Miller, former model, and wife of Formula One racer James Hunt Chris Hemsworth. She was even in the running to play Captain Marvel for a brief while. However, as well as acting, Olivia Wilde has expanded her career behind the camera in the years since House M.
Not only did she star in Drinking Buddies , she was also an executive producer on the project. She also produced Meadowland and A Vigilante , both films she starred in.
She then went on to direct a trio of short films before making the leap to features, and her debut movie Booksmart is one of the best coming-of-age movies in recent memory. It was praised for being hilarious and tear-jerking in equal measure.
Acting isn't entirely off the table for Wilde though; in , she starred in Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell as a sleazy journalist and is currently voicing an Audible original Escape From Virtual Island. However, since her days on House M. From starring in a myriad of indie films to keeping up appearances on TV shows, as well as making films herself now, she has gone from elusive character to household name.
Next: House, M. For Awais Irfan, movies have been the compass guiding him through his British life. He started a blog aged 13 and quickly pursued film journalism as a hobby - writing for various sites over the years, before landing a spot with Screen Rant. As well as this, he also studied an undergraduate degree in Film Production and hopes to one day make it as a screenwriter.
Her father, Andrew Cockburn a journalist, was born in London to British parents but raised in Ireland. Her uncles, Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, also worked as journalists. Wilde's older sister, Chloe Cockburn, is a civil rights attorney in New York. Her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer, and her paternal grandfather, Claud Cockburn, was a novelist and journalist. Wilde's father's upper-class British ancestors lived in several places at the height of British Empire, including Beijing where her paternal grandfather was born , Kolkata, Mumbai, Cairo and Tasmania one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was Governor of Hong Kong.
Wilde has said that as a result of her parents' occupations, she has a "strong journalistic streak," being "really critical and analytical. Both her parents were prominent in the Washington social scene, hosting dinner parties. Her mother once recounted a story of a four-year-old Wilde eavesdropping one night on a conversation between diplomat Richard Holbrooke and singer Mick Jagger, until Jagger noticed her and shooed her to bed.
She has wanted to become an actress since the age of two. For a short time, Wilde's family had a house in Guilford, Vermont.
Wilde had writer Christopher Hitchens as a babysitter. She became known for her role on The O. Her character, Jenny Reilly, was a principal female character in the series following the lives of an Irish-American family tied to organized crime in New York City. Also in , 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 , 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. She appeared in the comedy film Year One. I'm doing kicks and backflips in this thing? 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. Her character is the love interest of Mitch Planko, who was played by Ryan Reynolds. In August , 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. 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". On September 24, , Variety and Entertainment Weekly reported that Wilde will guest voice-star in the long-running adult animated series American Dad! In February , it was announced that Wilde will star and produce in the thriller Meadowland directed by Reed Morano from a script by Chris Rossi.
Wilde has dual citizenship in the United States and Ireland.
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