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Olivia Wilde: An Epitome of Fitness

Olivia Jane Cockburn is known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress. She is a vegan, and was voted PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2010. She once said "I�m considered sexy even though I�m wearing a lab coat every day and seen as a doctor on TV. That really says something. Playing someone who is not defined by her looks and being considered hot, that really makes me feel good." She has appeared in a number of television and film productions such as The O.C., The Black Donnellys, House, Tron: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens, In Time, Drinking Buddies, and most recently Rush.

Wilde was born in New York City. Her mother, Leslie Cockburn (n�e Redlich), is an American-born 60 Minutes producer and journalist. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, a journalist, was born in London to British parents, and raised in Ireland; her uncles, Alexander Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn, also worked as journalists. Wilde's older sister, Chloe Cockburn, is a civil rights attorney in New York; her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer, and her paternal grandfather, Claud Cockburn, was a novelist and journalist.

Wilde's father's upper-class British ancestors lived in several countries during the height of colonialism and the British Empire, including Beijing (where her paternal grandfather was born), Kolkata, Mumbai, Cairo, and Tasmania (one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was Governor of Hong Kong). Wilde's father's ancestors include abolitionist and Anglican minister James Ramsay, politician George Arbuthnot, lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet, and Sir Thomas Osborne, 9th Baronet. Wilde's ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish, Manx, and German; she is also of more distant Sephardi Jewish descent from a paternal ancestor, Ralph Bernal, a British Whig politician and actor.

Wilde has said that as a result of her parents' occupations, she has a "strong journalistic streak", being "really critical and analytical". Both her parents were prominent in the Washington social scene, hosting dinner parties. Her mother once recounted a story of a four-year-old Wilde eavesdropping one night on a conversation between diplomat Richard Holbrooke and singer Mick Jagger, until Jagger noticed her and shooed her to bed. She has wanted to become an actress since the age of two. For a short time, Wilde'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, graduating in 2002. She also studied acting at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. Wilde had writer Christopher Hitchens as a babysitter.

She 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".

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 a 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 September 2007, making her first appearance the episode "The Right Stuff". She played a secretive and bisexual young internist with Huntington's disease, Dr. Remy Hadley, nicknamed Thirteen, who was handpicked by House out of a number of applicants to join his team. Wilde told Star magazine how she sometimes took cues from her character even when she was 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.' 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". She appeared in the 2009 comedy film Year One.

She played Quorra in Disney's Tron: Legacy, which opened on December 17, 2010. In the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Details Wilde was quoted as saying she panicked the first time she saw her costume for the movie: "I saw the boobs on the suit and I said, 'Oh hell no. I'm doing kicks and backflips in this thing?'" She also reprised her role as Quorra in Tron: Uprising in the episode "Isolated". She was seen in flashbacks of Paige's past, where she befriended Quorra, not knowing that she was an ISO (isomorphic algorithm) at the time.

Wilde played Ella Swenson in the science fiction Western film Cowboys & Aliens. Her character works with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig), and Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), to save their town from evil aliens. Wilde played Sabrina McKay in the comedy film The Change-Up. Her character is the love interest of Mitch Planko, who was played by Ryan Reynolds. In January 2011, it was announced that Wilde was cast alongside Chris Pine in the film People Like Us, released in June 2012.

In August 2011, it was announced Wilde would be leaving House to pursue her film career. Wilde left House a few months later, in the episode "Charity Case". In May 2012, Wilde returned to House for the final two episodes, "Holding On" and "Everybody Dies". 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". She has cited Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn as acting inspirations.

She won the 2006 US Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award for Best Actress for Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, and in 2008 at the Teen Choice Awards, she was nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Star Female for House. Also in 2008, Wilde was honored alongside Jesse Eisenberg with the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award. On September 24, 2013, Variety and Entertainment Weekly reported that Wilde will guest voice-star in the long-running adult animated series American Dad!, the episode slated to air as part of the show's 10th season (2013�14).

Wilde has dual citizenship in the United States and Ireland. She derived her stage name "Wilde" from Irish author Oscar Wilde. She changed her surname while in high school, to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used pen names.

Wilde is a board member of Artists for Peace and Justice, which provides education and health services in Haiti, and the ACLU of Southern California. Previously, Wilde was a supporter of the youth voter organization, 18 in '08. She serves on their advisory council and appeared in a public service announcement that debuted June 30, 2008. In 2008, Wilde campaigned with actors Justin Long and her then-current House castmate Kal Penn for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.

She also appeared in the MoveOn.org mock-PSA "supporting" the rights of the healthcare insurance industry. She also appeared in the Global Poverty Project. Wilde was commended by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworkers' union, for supporting the Fair Foods campaign. In 2013, she appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign that aims to raise funds and awareness of women's issues in terms of education, health, and justice.

Olivia Wilde Diet and Workout Plan

She once said "Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything -- we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it," Olivia told Allure magazine recently. "It makes me sad when people say 'Oh, I don�t eat gluten. I don�t eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.��

In addition to dismissing strict diets, Olivia thinks that fear of going nude is odd. "I�m not an exhibitionist, but I�m not shy. Our fear of nudity in this country is bizarre," she added.

Olivia became a vegetarian when she was young, she told the Huffington Post.

"I have been a vegetarian since I was like... 12," she explained. "But being vegan has been something that, for the past four years, has at times been consistent, other times less so," she said of her more recent and more challenging dietary decision.

"It helps if you have the right support system," Olivia noted. "The person who really showed me the best way to do it was Alicia Silverstone. We were shooting a movie called 'Butter' and we were in Northern Louisiana -- where there is no vegetarian food -- and she cooked the most incredible recipes from the Kind diet for me everyday. I have never looked or felt better in my life."

The "Kind diet" to which Olivia refers is part of Alicia's book: "The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet." In addition to recipes, the book explains how to shift from an omnivore diet to a plant-based diet. Alicia offers support for different lifestyles as well as discussing the benefits of a vegan diet for health and the planet.

House star Olivia Wilde has the perfect prescription for a stress-free life: a good book, a prince of a guy, and the occasional 33-pancake breakfast.

For the self-described "sort-of vegetarian who eats fish," the lure is a raw-food stand and a chance to plop down and wiggle her toes in a patch of grass. "You're not going to believe this, but they have bike valets there," she says. "

Known as the sexiest doctor on Television, Olivia Wilde, actress on a medical drama series in Fox House is proud of her diet and workout, as it allow her to eat right and stay balanced at all times. Olivia described her diet as �sort of vegetarian who eats fish� because no matter how hard she tried to keep herself away from meat, bread and pasta, she failed to succeed most of the time because of Tao, her Italian husband.

Because of her success in keeping her body in top shape, many think that she follows a very strict diet. You might be surprised to learn this isn�t the truth! Olivia has a relaxed approach when it comes to eating. �I don�t own a scale, and Tao banned the word fat from our house.� �If we eat too much, we say, �I feel clogged up.�

Keeping a toned body does not necessarily requires you to follow a strict diet, and religiously eat less than what you normally do. What is important is that you maintain a healthy attitude towards food. Following a strict diet and putting too much pressure on yourself would only cause you to eat less healthy, and it will eventually followed by a feeling of guilt.
The main reason why she attempted to being a vegetarian is to boycott the torture factories. Other than that, Olivia got the bonus of feeling happy when eating plant-based foods.

�Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.� Other than her diet, Olivia also follows a healthy exercise and workout routine. She does spinning in a studio near her home by the beach in Venice. Other than spending time working out at the gym, Olivia also does other exercises like yoga, karate, and hiking. She loves hiking along with her dogs named Lola and Paco.

This actress is so vegan she started a website about the vegan lifestyle called "Wilde Things". While Olivia started being a vegan for ethical reasons, she credits the diet for her weight and general health. If fruits and veggies are to thank for her legendary physique, count us in.

Dated 23  October 2013