Olivia Wilde Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Olivia Wilde Wiki, Biography

Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984. She grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. while spending summers at Ardmore in Ireland. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002.^[7] Wilde derived her surname from Irish author Oscar Wilde,^[7] and started using it while in high school to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used pen names.^[8] She was accepted to Bard College, but deferred her enrollment three times in order to pursue acting.^[9] She then studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin.^[7]

Wilde’s mother, Leslie Cockburn (née Redlich), is an American producer on 60 Minutes and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is also a journalist, and is a son of British novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn. He was born in London and raised in Ireland. For a short time, Wilde’s family also had a house in Guilford, Vermont. She has a sister five years older and a brother nine years younger. Her grandfather Claud Cockburn and his sons Alexander and Patrick Cockburn also worked as journalists and her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer. Writer Christopher Hitchens was the Cockburn family’s tenant in Washington, D.C. and served as Wilde’s babysitter.

Some of Wilde’s paternal Scottish ancestors were upper-class and lived in many locations at the height of the British Empire, including Peking (where her paternal grandfather was born), Calcutta, Bombay, Cairo, and Tasmania. The Cockburns descend from the lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn. One of Wilde’s great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was governor of Hong Kong. Through her father’s family Wilde is related to George Cockburn, who was responsible for burning down Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. Wilde’s ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Manx, and Scottish; she is also of 1/64th Sephardic Jewish descent through her great-great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Bernal (1783–1854), a British Whig politician and actor.

Career

Wilde appeared as “Jewel Goldman” on the short-lived television series Skin (2003–2004). She gained attention for her recurring role as bisexual bar owner, Alex Kelly, who dates both characters played by Adam Brody and Mischa Barton on the teen drama television series, The O.C. (2004–2005).

She appeared in films The Girl Next Door (2004), Conversations with Other Women (2005), Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas (2006), Turistas (2006) and Alpha Dog (2006).

In 2007, she starred off-Broadway in Beauty on the Vine, a political thriller, playing three different characters. She was also in The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007) and the short-lived drama television series The Black Donnellys (2007). In September 2007, Wilde joined the cast of the medical drama television series House.^[17] She played the character of Remy “Thirteen” Hadley, a bisexual internist with Huntington’s disease, who was handpicked by House out of a number of applicants to join his medical team. Her first appearance was in the episode “The Right Stuff”.

Wilde appeared in the comedy film Year One (2009) as Princess Inanna. She starred in Disney’s Tron: Legacy (2010) as Quorra. Inspired by her award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker parents, Wilde has served as executive producer on several documentary short films, such as Sun City Picture House (2010), which is about a community in Haiti that rallies to build a movie theater after the disastrous 2010 earthquake.

In August 2011, it was announced Wilde would be leaving House to further pursue her film career; she left a few months later, in the episode “Charity Case”.^[18] Wilde starred in Cowboys & Aliens (2011) as Ella Swensen, who works with other characters to save the Earth from evil aliens, and also starred in the comedy The Change-Up (2011). She was also in the films In Time (2011), On the Inside (2011) and Butter (2011). In 2011, Wilde became a global brand ambassador for the cosmetic company Revlon, which featured her in their commercials. Wilde made her directing and screenwriting debut with the film Free Hugs (2011) for Glamour Magazine’s short film series, which was screened at various festivals.

In May 2012, Wilde’s character, Remy “Thirteen” Hadley, returned for the series finale of House for two episodes, “Holding On” and “Everybody Dies.” She starred in the film People Like Us (2012), Third Person (2012), The Words (2012) and as Liza in Deadfall (2012), a thriller about two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family’s Thanksgiving celebration. In 2012, Wilde was featured in PBS docu-series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which was inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book of the same name. The docu-series follows Wilde as she learns of the struggles women face in Nairobi, Kenya. She also produced the short film, Baseball in the Time of Cholera (2012), which explored the cholera epidemic in Haiti.

Personal life

On June 7, 2003, when she was 19 years old, Wilde married Italian filmmaker and musician Tao Ruspoli, a member of the Ruspoli family.^[ They were married in Washington, Virginia, on a school bus with only a pair of witnesses. She later said the wedding occurred in an abandoned school bus because it was the only place where they could be completely alone, as the marriage was a secret at the time. On February 8, 2011, she and Ruspoli announced that they were separating. Wilde filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on March 3, 2011, citing “irreconcilable differences”.^[79] The divorce was finalized on September 29, 2011. Wilde did not seek spousal support, and the pair reached a private agreement on property division.

Wilde began dating American actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis in November 2011. They became engaged in January 2013. The couple have two children: a son, born in 2014,^[84] and a daughter, born in 2016.^[85] Sudeikis and Wilde’s relationship ended in November 2020.^[86] Wilde was publicly served with court documents regarding child custody at Sudeikis’ direction while Wilde was presenting Don’t Worry Darling at CinemaCon 2022.

In January 2021, Wilde began dating Harry Styles after meeting during the filming of Don’t Worry Darling. Wilde considered herself a pescetarian in 2013, although she has been both vegan and vegetarian at different times. She was voted PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2010.