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Pinto lands Bond girl role

Hollywood - Found 5 hours ago
Meanwhile, American actress Olivia Wilde is reportedly in talks to star as the second Bond girl in the 23rd outing of the spy franchise.
POLL: Who Should Be the Next Bond Girl? - People
POLL: Who Should Be the Next Bond Girl? - People
Freida Pinto still the only one in Bond babe race - Express India
Pinto to star in Mendes-helmed Bond - Digital Spy
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Express India

Posted on March 20, 2010, 8:30 am

The Talented Mr. Roto: 50 Facts

ESPN.com - Found Mar. 17, 2010
... why Olivia Wilde is hotter than Joanna Krupa, it's all bunk and hooey, especially since Olivia went brunette. Look, you wanna go back to Olivia...

Posted on March 17, 2010, 3:29 am

Olivia Wilde on House this Friday, Mar. 19, video preview

Monsters and Critics - Found Mar. 16, 2010
FOX has sent Monsters and Critics a sneak peek at Friday's brand new "House" with Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde Fame Pictures, Inc - Santa Monica, CA...

Posted on March 16, 2010, 11:11 am

My Future Ex-Wife Of The Week: Olivia Wilde

PopCultureShock - Found Mar. 13, 2010
And where Avatar gave us Zoe Saldana as a ten-foot blue alien, Tron Legacy gives us Olivia Wilde (Thirteen from House) in full-on cyberpunk...

Posted on March 13, 2010, 10:17 am

House Season 6 Episode 16 Preview

dingoRUE - Found Mar. 12, 2010
Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub; Olivia Wilde as Thirteen/ Dr. Remy Hadley Guest Cast: Jennifer Crystal as Rachel Taub; Cali Fredrichs as Abby;

Posted on March 12, 2010, 11:22 am

Release Dates: Buried, Smurfs, 21 Jump Street and Paul Haggis? The ...

/Film - Found Mar. 11, 2010
The film also stars Liam Neeson , Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker, Brian Dennehy , and RZA . via: BOM Release Date News: 21 Jump Street...

Posted on March 11, 2010, 2:58 am

Here's the Tron: Legacy Trailer & Laser Light Show!

E! Online - Found Mar. 9, 2010
You have a vision conceived in 1982, but a hot starlet, Olivia Wilde, who wasn't conceived until one year later.
Here's the Tron: Legacy Trailer and Laser Light Show! - EOnline.com
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Jeff Bridges ditches the cowboy hat for 'Tron: Legacy' - Los Angeles Times
Film trailers: newest 'Iron Man 2' and a peek at 'Tron: Legacy' ... - The Independent
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Synthtopia

Posted on March 9, 2010, 7:45 am

Post-Oscar parties had a better turnout than the actual Oscars ...

Cele|bitchy - Found Mar. 8, 2010
I was wondering where he was. Olivia Wilde would like to remind you that she?s a princess. But she doesn?t want to talk about it.

Posted on March 8, 2010, 9:38 am

2010 Spirit Awards Red Carpet: Olivia Wilde

ShoppingBlog.com - Found Mar. 6, 2010
Actress Olivia Wilde wore a strapless vintage Ralph Lauren gown to this year's Independent Spirit Awards. InStyle says Olivia was spotted at ...

Posted on March 6, 2010, 3:15 am

Team Party Crash: Through the Service Entrance and Into Harvey ...

Gawker - Found Mar. 7, 2010
Olivia Wilde was walking around looking heart-stoppingly marvelous. Scots Dougray Scott and Gerard Butler were being Scottish.

Posted on March 7, 2010, 11:43 am

Olivia Wilde Biography

Olivia Wilde
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Olivia Wilde

At the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
Born Olivia Jane Cockburn
March 10, 1984 (1984-03-10) (age 26)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 2003–present
Spouse(s) Tao Ruspoli (m. 2003–present) «start: (2003)»"Marriage: Tao Ruspoli to Olivia Wilde" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Wilde)

Olivia Jane Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn on March 10, 1984)1 is an American actress. She began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including roles on the series The O.C. and The Black Donnellys. She currently portrays Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley in the TV drama House.1

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Early life

Wilde was born in New York City on March 10, 1984. Her mother, Leslie Cockburn (née Corkhill Redlich), is a 60 Minutes producer and journalist, and her London-born father, Andrew Cockburn, is an Irish journalist, as are her paternal uncles Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, all of whom are contributors to the political website CounterPunch.org. Her half-aunt was the late writer Sarah Caudwell and her paternal grandfather was the novelist/journalist Claud Cockburn. Wilde has said that as a result of her family background, she has a "strong journalistic streak", being "really critical and analytical".1 Both her parents were prominent in the Washington social scene, hosting dinner parties. Her mother once recounted a story of a young Wilde eavesdropping one night on a conversation between Richard Holbrooke and Mick Jagger until Mick noticed her and shooed Olivia to bed.2 She has wanted to become an actress since the age of two.1 For a short time, Olivia's family had a house in Guilford, Vermont. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., as well as Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, but did not graduate, and subsequently moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she attended The Gaiety School of Acting.1 She initially began working as a casting assistant.

Career

Wilde has appeared in the films The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, Conversations with Other Women and Turistas. She became known for her role on The O.C. as Alex Kelly, although she originally auditioned for the role of Marissa Cooper. She has also appeared in the Dashboard Confessional music video for "Stolen", and the French Kicks music video for "So Far We Are". She was strongly considered to play Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the 21st Bond film Casino Royale but Eva Green eventually won the role.

As of 2009, Wilde is ranked #1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100.3 She was also ranked #95 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006.4 She was one of the key models in Abercrombie & Fitch's "Rising Stars" campaign in summer of 2004.

In 2007, Wilde was a part of the ensemble cast of the short-lived NBC mid-season drama The Black Donnellys. Her character, Jenny Reilly, was the lone principal female character in the series following the lives of an Irish-American family tied to organized crime in New York City. Also in 2007, Wilde appeared in the play Beauty on the Vine, a political thriller, playing three different characters.

Wilde joined the cast of the Fox medical drama House in autumn 2007, playing a young internist, Dr. Remy Hadley, nicknamed Thirteen, who works closely with Dr. House. Wilde told Star magazine how she sometimes takes cues from her character even when she's not working, saying, "I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"56 During the episode "The Tyrant", upon hearing about Foreman's recent firing of Wilde's character, House sarcastically teased, "My condolences. Although, it's not like she's the hottest woman in the world." This was an inside pop-culture joke nodding to her real-life No. 1 ranking in Maxim's Top 100.7

The New York Observer has described Wilde as having a "throaty voice" and the "wide, teal-eyed charisma of Hollywood in the days of yore".1 She has cited Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn as acting inspirations.1

She won the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Actress for Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006) and in 2008 at the Teen Choice Awards she was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star Female for House M.D. and won the Rising Star Award at the Vail Film Festival.

On October 7, 2008, Wilde appeared in a video on funnyordie.com showing how much she enjoys registering early for the 2008 Presidential election, "Olivia Wilde Does It Early".8 Wilde appeared alongside Jack Black and Michael Cera in the 2009 comedy Year One.

She is set to be featured in Disney's Tron: Legacy, opening on December 17, 2010.

Personal life

Wilde in 2005

Wilde has dual citizenship in the United States and the Republic of Ireland.1 She derived her stage name "Wilde" from author Oscar Wilde.1

She married Italian-American documentary filmmaker, photographer, flamenco guitar player, and son of an Italian prince91011 Tao Ruspoli on June 7, 2003, in Washington, Virginia on a school bus with only a pair of witnesses.2 They currently live12 and work in Venice, Los Angeles, California.

Politics

Wilde is a supporter of youth voter organization, 18 in '08. She serves on their advisory council and appeared in a public service announcement that debuted June 30, 2008.13 In the fall of 2008, Wilde campaigned with actors Justin Long and her former House castmate Kal Penn for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.14

She also appeared in the Moveon.org mock-PSA "supporting" the right of the healthcare insurance industry to maintain their high profits.

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
2004 The Girl Next Door Kellie
2005 Conversations with Other Women Bridesmaid
2006 Alpha Dog Angela Holden
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas Sarah Witt
Turistas Bea
2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z Elizabeth
2008 Fix Bella
2009 Year One Princess Inanna
In NorthWood Mia In post-production
2010 Tron Legacy Quorra Post-production
2011 Cowboys & Aliens Ella15 Pre-production
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Skin Jewel Goldman Main role (2003–2004)
2004 The O.C. Alex Kelly Supporting role (2004–2005)
2007 The Black Donnellys Jenny Reilly Main role (2007)
House Remy "Thirteen" Hadley Main role (2007–present)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Vilkomerson, Sara (2007-04-11). "Wilde At Heart". New York Observer. http://www.observer.com/2007/wilde-heart. Retrieved 2007-04-11. 
  2. ^ a b Jason Gay (October 2009). "Olivia". GQ Magazine. http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_10937. 
  3. ^ "Maxim 100". Maxim 2009 Hot 100. http://www.maxim.com/girls/hot-100/79081/2009-hot-100-100-91.html#100. Retrieved June 7, 2009. 
  4. ^ "FreeJose.com". FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006. http://www.freejose.com/lists/fhm/2006. Retrieved January 28, 2007. 
  5. ^ Star Magazine December 8, 2008 p.96
  6. ^ "CNN.com". House' gets a new group of trainees. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/18/television.house.reut/index.html. Retrieved July 18, 2007. 
  7. ^ Los Angeles Times report on Wilde
  8. ^ funnyordie.com
  9. ^ "Olivia Wilde - Biography". olivia-wilde.org. 2008-04-10. http://www.olivia-wilde.org/olivia/biography.php. Retrieved 2008-11-17. 
  10. ^ "Olivia Wilde - Biography". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808489542/bio. Retrieved 2008-11-17. 
  11. ^ Rizzo, Monica. Olivia Wilde - She's Wild About Hugh Laurie, Classic Cars and Her Husband—a Real-Life Prince!, People. November 12, 2007. Accessed January 28, 2009.
  12. ^ "Olivia Wilde Donation to Obama Campiagn". http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=Ruspoli+Wilde&fname=Olivia. Retrieved 2009-11-11. 
  13. ^ Burstein, D. "Olivia Wilde and Peter Sarsgaard Star in New Public Service Announcements Encouraging Young People to Vote in 2008 Election". Reuters. http://www.mywire.com/pubs/PRNewswire/2008/06/30/6810451?extID=10051. Retrieved 2008-11-17. 
  14. ^ Chatterjee, N (2008-10-13). "‘Kumar’ rallies action for Obama". The Dartmouth. http://thedartmouth.com/2008/10/13/news/kalpenn. Retrieved 2008-11-17. 
  15. ^ http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/02/olivia-wilde-cowboys-and-aliens-daniel-craig.html

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