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Top 10 Celebrities with Finest and Fittest Physique 2013
9) Olivia Wilde
Olivia
Jane Cockburn was born on 10th March 10, 1984. She known professionally as
Olivia Wilde, is an American actress who has appeared in a number of television
and film productions. Wilde has starred in TV productions such as The O.C., The
Black Donnellys and House, and in films such as Tron: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens,
In Time, and Drinking Buddies.
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 places 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, specifically Spanish and Portuguese Jewish, descent from a paternal
ancestor, Ralph Bernal (1783�1854), 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 (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. 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.
She is a vegan, and was voted PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2010.
On June 7, 2003 Wilde married Tao Ruspoli, an Italian filmmaker and musician,
whose family owns a famed palazzo in Italy, in Washington, Virginia, on a school
bus with only a pair of witnesses, when she was nineteen years old. She later
said the marriage 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 her husband announced that they were
separating. Wilde filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court on
March 3, 2011, citing "irreconcilable differences". 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 actor Jason Sudeikis in November 2011, and the two became
engaged in January 2013. In October 2013, it was announced that Wilde is
pregnant with their first child. 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
Awards she won
Year Award
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2006 The Comedy Festival Best Actress Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
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2008 Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award Bickford Shmeckler's Cool
Ideas
Film she has acted
Year Title
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1995 Meeting Magdalene
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2004 The Girl Next Door
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2005 Conversations with Other Women
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2006 Alpha Dog
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2006 Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
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2006 Turistas
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2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z
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2008 Fix
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2009 Year One
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2009 The Ballad of G.I. Joe
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2010 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
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2010 The Next Three Days
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2010 Tron: Legacy
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2011 Free Hugs
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2011 Cowboys & Aliens
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2011 The Change-Up
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2011 On the Inside
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2011 In Time
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2012 Butter
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2012 Deadfall
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2012 People like Us
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2012 The Words
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2012 The Longest Week
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2013 The Incredible Burt
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2013 Drinking Buddies
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2013 Rush
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2013 Her
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2013 Third Person
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2013 Better Living Through Chemistry
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Dated 25 December 2013
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