Olivia Kate Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 and is an English actress.
24 Facts About Olivia Cooke
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In film, Cooke has starred in the horror film Ouija, the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the thriller Thoroughbreds, the science fiction film Ready Player One, and the drama Sound of Metal.
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Olivia Kate Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 in Oldham, Greater Manchester, to sales representative Lindsay Wilde and police officer John Cooke.
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Olivia Cooke's parents divorced when she was a child, and she and her sister lived with their mother.
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Olivia Cooke started acting when she was eight years old at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme in her hometown.
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Olivia Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Academy and studied drama at Oldham Sixth Form College, leaving before the end of her A-levels to appear in the drama series Blackout.
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Olivia Cooke starred as Maria in a college production of West Side Story, and soon landed her first and last leading role for the Oldham Theatre Workshop in Prom: The Musical, a remake of Cinderella.
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Olivia Cooke starred in all three BBC mini-series productions in 2012: Blackout, as the daughter of Christopher Eccleston's character, and The Secret of Crickley Hall, as a young teacher at a tyrannical orphanage in the 1940s.
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Olivia Cooke stated that she felt better suited for television than theatre, as she was embarrassed by the exaggerated gestures sometimes required for stage acting.
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In 2012, following The Quiet Ones, Olivia Cooke acquired an agent in Los Angeles.
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Three weeks later, Olivia Cooke earned the part of Emma, her first American role.
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Olivia Cooke was originally disappointed when the producers made Emma Mancunian, believing it was a fail-safe measure regarding her accent.
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However, aided by fellow English actor Freddie Highmore, who has previous experience with an American accent, Olivia Cooke has since been mistaken to be American.
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Olivia Cooke starred as Haley Peterson, an American MIT student transferring to Caltech, who encounters strange occurrences as she, her boyfriend, and her best friend are lured into the desert by a hacker.
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In October 2014, Olivia Cooke led the cast of Ouija, a horror film based on Hasbro's board game.
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The role of the protagonist, Laine Morris, was a major undertaking for Olivia Cooke, who appeared in almost every scene.
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Olivia Cooke next appeared in the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
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Also in 2015, Olivia Cooke voiced the Loch Ness Monster for an episode of Axe Cop, which was co-written by her Me and Earl and the Dying Girl co-star Nick Offerman.
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Olivia Cooke played the titular character in the independent drama film Katie Says Goodbye, alongside Jim Belushi, Mireille Enos, Christopher Abbott, and Mary Steenburgen.
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Olivia Cooke next starred in the film adaptation of Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, a gothic murder mystery, opposite Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth.
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Olivia Cooke then starred in the thriller film Thoroughbreds, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Anton Yelchin, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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Olivia Cooke starred as Art3mis in Steven Spielberg's science fiction adventure Ready Player One, which was released in March 2018.
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Olivia Cooke starred in the drama film Sound of Metal, alongside Riz Ahmed.
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Since 2022, Olivia Cooke has played the role of Alicent Hightower, the "Green Queen," in HBO's House of the Dragon.