1. Olivia Dunham is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the science fiction television series Fringe, which aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States from 2008 to 2013.
38 Facts About Olivia Dunham
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Critically acclaimed for an evolving storyline, Olivia Dunham has highlighted determination and focus as her main traits, according to Abrams.
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Olivia Dunham is a 29-year-old Northwestern University-educated FBI Special Agent assigned to a multi-agency task force of the US Department of Homeland Security called the Fringe Division, after her partner and lover, John Scott, is exposed to a flesh-dissolving agent.
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An experiment by Dr Bishop to link her to the dying John Scott's mind to learn what he knew about his condition results in Olivia Dunham gaining part of his consciousness, causing her mind to begin integrating and purging the foreign consciousness.
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Olivia Dunham is revealed to be linked to the drug Cortexiphan, a chemical developed by William Bell, which supposedly allows children injected with it to retain higher brain functions which would normally deteriorate with age.
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Olivia Dunham was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida.
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Olivia Dunham could discern if an object originated in the alternate dimension due to a "glimmer" that only she could see.
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When Olivia Dunham regains part of her memories of her meeting with Bell, she is told that she is the only successful subject suitable to pass through dimensions without many known negative side-effects.
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Olivia Dunham has been called the guardian of the gateway by Bell, who will prevent the invasion by the alternate dimension.
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Olivia Dunham is given permission by Nina Sharp to meet William Bell, who currently resides in another dimension, with his office in the World Trade Center's South Tower.
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Olivia Dunham ends up in a short coma and wakes up in an incoherent state and in shock.
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Olivia Dunham regains part of those memories and learns more about the invasion between dimensions.
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Olivia Dunham is trapped in the alternate universe by Walternate, Walter's alternative self, while Fauxlivia replaces her in the prime universe.
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Olivia Dunham is captured and drugged, brainwashed into believing that she is the alternate Olivia, complete with traits such as superb marksmanship skills which prime-universe Olivia did not possess.
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Olivia Dunham tries to escape her imprisonment and travel back to her own universe, but in doing so, she inadvertently goes to Fauxlivia's mother's house where she finally accepts the new memories as her own.
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However, Olivia Dunham begins to regain her past memories after she has hallucinations of Peter Bishop, who comes to her in a vision and tells her that she doesn't belong there before kissing her.
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Meanwhile, Peter realizes that he is with alternate Olivia Dunham, causing her to flee and return to her own universe as well.
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When Peter resurfaces Olivia Dunham is surprised to see him but believes he comes from a parallel universe.
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Olivia Dunham later learns that she is pregnant with a daughter, Henrietta "Etta" Bishop.
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In 2015 when Olivia Dunham is at a park with Etta and Peter they are caught up in a global attack by observers and she and Peter are separated from their daughter.
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Olivia Dunham learns that while Etta poses as an enforcer for the observers she is actually resistant to their telepathy and is a key figure in the human resistance movement against them.
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What's interesting about this show is that in many ways, Olivia Dunham has the masculine role, and the two guys are the women.
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Olivia Dunham carries the gun, they sit around and talk.
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Olivia Dunham has a strong sense of justice, which drives her to solve a case by any means necessary.
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Olivia Dunham had an abusive stepfather, and shot him several times in defense of her mother and herself.
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Olivia Dunham was unable to finish him off, and so he recovered and disappeared, leaving her to blame herself for not exacting retribution against him, contributing to her determination to bring criminals to justice.
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Olivia Dunham was nine years old when she shot her stepfather, and she states in an earlier episode that she knew what she wanted to do for a career "pretty much since [she] was nine", indicating a direct link between the childhood abuse and her job.
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Olivia Dunham has little family, as her mother died when she was in her early teenage years.
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Olivia Dunham's is close to her sister Rachel, and Rachel's daughter Ella.
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Olivia Dunham was involved in a serious relationship with fellow FBI agent John Scott, and his supposed betrayal and death was something she dealt with for much of the first season.
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Olivia Dunham was in a relationship with Peter after they mended things in episode 6B, but shortly after that Peter built a bridge wiping himself from existence, causing Olivia Dunham to forget who he was.
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Olivia Dunham's mum died when she was really little, and [Fauxlivia]'s mum is still around.
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The good news is, Anna's new and more animated Olivia Dunham isn't really a departure so much as it is a character who seems to have had a catharsis.
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Olivia Dunham is comfortable in her skin now, and the stillness is pulled back in favor of more humanity.
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Olivia Dunham did it with excellence, and now she's really getting the chance to show people, 'Hey, I'm a really hard worker and a terrific actor.
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Olivia Dunham's take on [Fauxlivia] added many new colors to the characters, including malice, humor and sensuality.
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Olivia Dunham was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL TV.
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Olivia Dunham received a nomination at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards for Breakout Star Female, but lost to Demi Lovato.