Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City. She was
raised in Washington, D.C. and went to school there, as well as in
Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated in 2002. Her father, Andrew Cockburn,
was born in England and later became an Irish citizen, giving Olivia
dual American and Irish nationality, and facilitating her brief study at
the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. After appearing in the
short-lived Fox television series Skin (2003), she made her Hollywood debut in The Girl Next Door (2004) and then came to public notice in The O.C. (2003), but it was as Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley in House M.D. (2004) that she achieved international stardom. She has since starred or co-starred in the films TRON: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), In Time (2011), People Like Us (2012) and The Words (2012).
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