Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn on March 10, 1984) is an American actress. Coming from a family of journalists, she began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including her roles on the series The O.C. and The Black Donnellys.
As of 2007, Wilde is a part of the ensemble cast of the NBC midseason drama The Black Donnellys. Her character, Jenny Reilly, is 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 will appear in the play Beauty on the Vine, a political thriller scheduled to premiere in late April and run until June; Wilde will play three different characters.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, and also admires playwright Eve Ensler and director and actor Woody Allen.

Personal life

Wilde has dual citizenship between the United Stated and Ireland. On June 7, 2003, Wilde, nineteen at the time, married Prince Tao Ruspoli, an Italian documentary filmmaker, photographer and flamenco guitar player of aristocratic origin; the two eloped six months after they met and were married in a small civil ceremony conducted by a Justice of the Peace. They were introduced to each other at a party by journalist Duncan Campbell, a friend of Wilde's family. Wilde has said that she and her husband are from "completely different worlds".
Wilde is a natural blonde and has stated that people have been "shocked" that she is a blonde but that "I wasn’t stupid".