34 Facts About Elizabeth Olsen

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Elizabeth Chase Olsen was born on February 16,1989 and is an American actress.

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Elizabeth Olsen starred in her debut film role in the thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, for which she was acclaimed and nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award among other accolades, followed by a role in the horror film Silent House.

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Elizabeth Olsen received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and graduated from New York University two years later.

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Outside of her work with Marvel, Elizabeth Olsen starred in the monster film Godzilla, the mystery film Wind River, and the dramedy Ingrid Goes West.

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Elizabeth Olsen executive produced and starred in the drama series Sorry for Your Loss, earning a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for her role as a widow.

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Elizabeth Chase Olsen was born on February 16,1989, in Sherman Oaks, California.

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Elizabeth Olsen's mother, Jarnie, is a former dancer, while her father, Dave, is a real estate agent.

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Elizabeth Olsen is the younger sister of twin fashion designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who became successful television and film actresses as children.

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Elizabeth Olsen has an older brother, a younger half-brother, and a younger half-sister.

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Elizabeth Olsen nearly quit pursuing acting in 2004 due to the media attention toward Mary-Kate's eating disorder.

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Elizabeth Olsen went to Campbell Hall School in Studio City, California.

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Elizabeth Olsen attained understudy roles in the 2008 off-Broadway production of the play Dust and the 2009 Broadway production of the play Impressionism, which led to her securing an agent.

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Elizabeth Olsen made her film debut in the 2011 thriller film Martha Marcy May Marlene.

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Elizabeth Olsen earned several award nominations for her portrayal of the titular Martha, a young woman suffering from delusions after fleeing her life in a cult and returning to her family, including those for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.

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Elizabeth Olsen attributed her interest in the character to her own fascination with mental illnesses.

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Elizabeth Olsen next appeared in the horror film Silent House, which garnered her "rave reviews".

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In January 2013, Elizabeth Olsen garnered a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award at the 66th British Academy Film Awards.

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Elizabeth Olsen played Edie Parker, novelist Jack Kerouac's first wife and the author of the Beat Generation memoir You'll Be Okay, in the biographical drama Kill Your Darlings.

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Elizabeth Olsen appeared in the American remake of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy, playing Marie Sebastian, a nurse who helps the protagonist, played by Josh Brolin, find his daughter.

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Elizabeth Olsen played the leading role in In Secret, a film adaptation of Emile Zola's 1867 novel Therese Raquin.

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Later that year, Elizabeth Olsen starred in the monster film Godzilla, opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, which received positive reviews and grossed $529 million against a $160 million production budget.

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Elizabeth Olsen starred in the 2015 superhero film Avengers: Age of Ultron, a sequel to The Avengers, joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise.

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Elizabeth Olsen first appeared as the character in a post-credits scene of the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, alongside Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who portrayed Maximoff's brother, Pietro.

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Elizabeth Olsen played the part with an accent originating from a fictional country called Sokovia, which she described as similar to Slovakian.

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Elizabeth Olsen reprised the role in Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, the last of which became the second highest-grossing film of all time.

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Elizabeth Olsen portrayed Audrey Williams, the wife, manager, and duet partner of singer Hank Williams, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, in the 2015 biographical film I Saw the Light, directed by Marc Abraham.

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Elizabeth Olsen executive produced and starred as a young widow named Leigh Shaw in the Facebook Watch web television series Sorry for Your Loss, which premiered in September 2018.

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Elizabeth Olsen said the three years it took to develop the series enabled her to immerse herself in Shaw's impulses.

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Alongside Paul Bettany as Vision, Elizabeth Olsen played Maximoff again in the superhero miniseries WandaVision, which premiered on Disney+ in January 2021.

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Elizabeth Olsen reprised the role in the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was released in May 2022 to mixed reviews.

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Elizabeth Olsen's performance received praise, with Owen Gleiberman of Variety writing that it "generates an operatic fire".

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Elizabeth Olsen starred as housewife Candy Montgomery in Love and Death, an HBO Max limited series about a 1980 murder in Texas.

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Elizabeth Olsen is an ambassador for the company Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.

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Elizabeth Olsen became engaged to musician Robbie Arnett, of the American band Milo Greene, in July 2019 after three years of dating.