Her real name is Olivia Jane Cockburn and she attended the Gaiety school of acing in Dublin, Ireland.

Multi talented Olivia once won a pancake eating contest, she is a natural blonde although is normally seen with dark hair, Olivia is also a vegan and loves animals.

Her mother is a producer on the CNN show 60 Minutes and her father is an Irish journalist.

Olivia impressed producers and almost won the part of Vesper Lynd in Bond movie Casino Royale, she narrowly lost out to the lovely Eva Green.

She took her last name from author Oscar Wilde.

Olivia is currently happily married to Tao Ruspoli, the son of an Italian Prince.

Her acting insprations include Signourney Weaver, Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand.

She has appeared in the tv shows Skin and The O.C. and can currently can be seen in the hit television show House M.D. playing Dr Remy "Thirteen" Hadley.

Some films you can see her in are The Girl Next Door, Conversations With Other Women, Alpha Dog, Camjackers, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, Turista's aka Paradise Lost, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, Fix, On The Inside and Year One. You can catch her soon in The Next Three Days, Tron: Legacy, Butter and Cowboys and Aliens.

Check out some Olivia Wilde quotes below.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I was a handful growing up.

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