1. Olivia Jo Thirlby was born on October 6,1986 and is an American actress.
21 Facts About Olivia Thirlby
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Olivia Thirlby is best known for her roles as Leah in the comedy-drama film Juno, as Natalie in The Darkest Hour and as Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd.
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In 2023, Thirlby portrayed Lilli Hornig in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer.
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Olivia Thirlby was born on October 6,1986, in New York City, to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father.
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Olivia Thirlby was raised in Manhattan's East Village, attending school at Friends Seminary in the city's Gramercy neighborhood, where she graduated in a class of 57 students.
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Olivia Thirlby attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York, and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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Olivia Thirlby took classes at the American Globe Theatre, and briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she completed a stage combat course with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat.
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Olivia Thirlby plays Stephanie, a marijuana-smoking "popular girl" from New York City, in Sundance Audience Award-winning mid-1990s period piece film The Wackness, which was released in the US on July 3,2008, and stars opposite Josh Peck.
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Olivia Thirlby was cast in the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed stoner comedy Pineapple Express as the girlfriend of Seth Rogen's character, but was replaced by Amber Heard after rehearsing for the film.
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Olivia Thirlby reunited with David Gordon Green on the animated TV pilot Good Vibes.
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Olivia Thirlby made her stage debut in Farragut North, a play by Beau Willimon at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City.
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Olivia Thirlby appeared in the 2009 HBO series Bored to Death.
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Olivia Thirlby was attached to star in Christmas in New York, though the film was not made, as well as For Ellen, where it appears she did not accept a role.
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Olivia Thirlby starred in the Russian science-fiction film The Darkest Hour, released in 2011, directed by Chris Gorak, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
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Olivia Thirlby starred as Judge Cassandra Anderson in the 2012 film adaptation of Judge Dredd, with Karl Urban in the title role.
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Olivia Thirlby next starred in the indie film Nobody Walks co-starring John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt.
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Olivia Thirlby plays Martine, a young artist taken in a couple's home.
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In 2016, Olivia Thirlby co-starred as the young attorney Lucy Kittridge in the Amazon Studios legal series Goliath.
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Olivia Thirlby portrayed the main character in 2019's Above the Shadows.
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That same year Olivia Thirlby agreed to participate in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project, an effort to capture the diversity of the LGBTQ+ in the United States through photography.
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Olivia Thirlby married Jacques Pienaar on December 28,2014; she met him on the set of her 2012 film Dredd.