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Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth  Olsen  born February 16, 1989  is an American actress and singer. She's best known for her roles in the films Martha Marcy May Marlene, Silent Houseand Liberal Arts. Her performance in the former netted her critical acclaim and numerous award nominations. She is the younger sister of actresses and fashion designersMary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. She has an older brother named Trent Olsen and two younger half siblings, sister Taylor Olsen and brother Jake Olsen, from her father's second marriage.

Early life

Olsen was born and raised in Sherman Oaks, California, the daughter of Jarnette "Jarnie" (b. 1954), a personal manager, and David Olsen, a real estate developer and mortgage banker. In 1995, Olsen's parents filed for divorce proceedings.

As a child, she received ballet and singing lessons. Lizzie Olsen began acting at a very young age, with appearances in her sisters' films. Before the age of eleven, Olsen had small roles in How the West Was Fun, Our First Video, and the straight-to-video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley. Of this period in her acting career, Olsen comments, "Well, that was like after-school for me. I'd hang out and they'd be like, hey, you want to be in this one? Then they'd paint half my face dark brown or something— 'Silly sister, forgot to put sunscreen on half her face.'"

Having appeared in her sisters' videos, when she was in the fourth grade, Olsen began to go on auditions for other projects. By the time she was ten Elizabeth landed a small role in a local commercial. However the auditions came at a price. Olsen found she had less time for other interests: ballet and sports. She decided to quit acting.

Olsen attended Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood, California from kindergarten through grade 12. After graduation, she enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2009, Olsen spent a semester studying in Moscow, Russia at the Art Theatre School. The young actress says of her work towards an acting career: "...I've been taking acting classes since I was 7. I took classes, kids auditioning with their mothers, and I didn't want that, I just liked the classes. I met my agent through understudying a Broadway play, and I was doing some underground stuff that nobody saw."

In 2010, Olsen's father filed for bankruptcy.

Career

Olsen began acting when she was four years of age and co-starred in six of Mary-Kate and Ashley's productions; she also auditioned for the film, Spy Kids. Olsen has received acting advice from both Mary-Kate and Ashley.

By age 16, Olsen began studying Russian theater, which resparked her interest in acting. In 2009, during her sophomore year, Olsen became the understudy for the Nicole Halladay character in the Broadway show Impressionism. It was during this time that the youngest Olsen sister met her agent. Together they decided that theater would be the path for Elizabeth. This decision was partly motivated by the way the media had treated her older sisters after they had been thrust to the spotlight as babies.

However, Olsen still auditioned for movies, landing her first role six months after she began. The role was Zoe, Catherine Keener's character's daughter in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding. As she was preparing to begin filming, she came across the script for Martha Marcy May Marlene. After falling in love with the script and being cast as the main character—a young girl escaping from a cult—,just two weeks before shooting, she drove back and forth between both sets until filming was completed on both. The 2011 film became a film festival darling and landed high praise for Olsen's performance. In addition to receiving extensive praise for her performance, Martha Marcy May Marlene marked Olsen's first nude appearance in a film. When asked about the nudity, she said that she felt that it added to the film.^[11] She has also acted in Silent House, in which she played the role of Sarah, and appeared in the music video "The Queen" by Carlotta. Lizzie Olsen filmed the movie Red Lights during mid-2011, and the movie was released in the US on July 13, 2012.  She also starred in Josh Radnor's film Liberal Arts, which was released on January 22, 2012. She andDreamer and The Secret Life of Bees star Dakota Fanning are set to star in Very Good Girls, planned for a 2013 release. Olsen had recently joined the cast of the American remake of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy. She will play Marie, a young social worker who develops a relationship with the protagonist, played by Josh Brolin. Olsen will play Edie Parker, Jack Kerouac's first wife and the author of the Beat Generation memoir "You'll Be Okay." in "Kill your Darlings". Kerouac will be played by Jack Huston, the grandson of the great John Huston. First time filmmaker John Krokidas will helm the project and his ex-Yale roommate Austin Bunn co-wrote the script with him.

"I play a very small part in it," Olsen said, "but in my head, I think I'm doing her autobiography! She had this autobiography ['You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac'], which was clearly written by someone who is not a writer, but she remembers things, like the clothes she wore, so then you're like, 'Maybe she would actually do that,' or, 'This is what she always did with Jack,' and that's cool. You're part of the conversation of the story."

Still, Olsen laughed, she's trying to learn restraint, "because it's not her story." "You think, as the actor, 'Oh, but there's this and this and this about her. Can we bring that in?' " she said. "And it doesn't matter, because you're trying to tell this story, and that doesn't help tell the story in the best. You're fictionalizing a historical thing and also trying to do justice for these people, and for the people who knew them who are still around."

Olsen almost quit acting in 2004 due to the media frenzy surrounding Mary-Kate's eating disorder.

Personal life

Olsen attends New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Atlantic Theater Company.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Our First Video	Herself
1994	The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of Thorn Mansion	Herself
1994	How the West Was Fun
1995	The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of the Mystery Cruise	Herself
1995	The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of the Christmas Caper	Herself
1996	The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of the U.S. Space Camp Mission	Herself
2011	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha	Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Florida Film Critics Circle Pauline Kael Breakout Award Ghent International Film Festival – Special Mention for her performance Indiana Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Los Angeles Film Critics Association New Generation Award Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Breakout on Camera Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Breakthrough Film Artist Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Nominated – Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated – Denver Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakout Star Nominated – Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance Nominated – Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough Actress Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Nominated – Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated – San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actress Nominated – St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated – Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress Nominated – Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress[21]
2011	Silent House	Sarah
2012	Peace, Love and Misunderstanding	Zoe
2012	Red Lights	Sally Owen
2012	Liberal Arts	Zibby
2012	Therese Raquin	Thérèse Raquin	Post-production
2013	Kill Your Darlings	Edie Parker	Post-production
2013	Very Good Girls	Gerry	Post-production
2013	Oldboy	Marie	filming