1. Olivia Olson was born on May 21,1992 and is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and writer, largely known for her voice roles as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time.
20 Facts About Olivia Olson
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Olivia Olson played the character of Joanna in the 2003 film Love Actually and its 2017 short sequel Red Nose Day Actually.
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Olivia Olson is of Afro-Jamaican descent through her biological father.
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Olivia Olson has appeared as a singer and actress on television shows and in live theatre, including Comedy Central Stage, the HBO Theater, and The Fake Gallery.
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Olivia Olson moved into the mainstream with her role as Joanna Anderson in the 2003 holiday film Love Actually, singing the song "All I Want for Christmas Is You".
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Olivia Olson's singing was praised, with director Richard Curtis stating in the commentary in the music section of the Love Actually DVD that Olson's singing was so perfect, they were afraid the audience would not believe that a ten-year-old could really sing the way she did and would assume she was lip-synching.
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In 2017, Olivia Olson reprised her role as Joanna in Red Nose Day Actually, a short film which is a sequel to Love Actually.
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From 2008 to 2015, Olivia Olson voiced the recurring character Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb along with actor Thomas Sangster, who played Joanna's love interest Sam in Love Actually.
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Olivia Olson has written songs for Phineas and Ferb and has written and recorded her own songs with music producers Rick Nowels, Camara Kambon and Hollywood jazz great Rob Mullins, while Olson's father wrote "over 200 songs for the series" and various episodes.
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In 2011, Olivia Olson voiced Vanessa in a deleted scene of Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, which included a musical number, but sang a song for the film "I Walk Away".
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Olivia Olson was not aware, at the time, that Martin was Olson's father.
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In 2010, Olivia Olson got the role of Marceline the Vampire Queen on the animated Cartoon Network series Adventure Time.
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Olivia Olson said she was impressed by her character's fashion design and the costuming for Marceline, saying she occasionally admired the unique designs for the character in episodes.
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Olivia Olson wrote her section in first person as her character Marceline.
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Olivia Olson performed the song "Haven't You Noticed ", which was featured on the September 17,2015, episode of Steven Universe entitled "Sadie's Song".
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Olivia Olson appears at Comic-Cons and pop conventions around the world as do other Adventure Time cast members.
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On July 18,2013, Olivia Olson released her debut EP Beauty Is Chaos.
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From 2016 to 2019, Olivia Olson voiced the fourth Powerpuff Girl Bliss on Cartoon Network's reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, The character's initial announcement was met with negative reactions from some fans, but when rumors began to spread that the character would be black, fans began to express a more optimistic tone.
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On June 22,2018, Olivia Olson released the album Nowhere Land.
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Olivia Olson reprised her role as Marceline the Vampire Queen in the 2023 Adventure Time spin-off series Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.