Elizabeth Olsen is the little sister of the famous Olsen duo! She is a very good actress with many great performances!
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- Her full name is Elizabeth Chase Olsen
- She was born on February 16, 1989
- She is an American actress
- She is known for portraying Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she starred in the independent thriller drama Martha Marcy May Marlene
- For which she was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, among other awards
- She subsequently starred in the films Silent House (2011), Liberal Arts (2012), Oldboy (2013), Godzilla (2014), I Saw the Light (2015), Ingrid Goes West (2017) and Wind River (2017)
- She achieved global recognition when she appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch
- With her first appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) in the end credit scene
- Then a lead in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the upcoming Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- Olsen was born in Sherman Oaks, California
- Her mother is Jarnette “Jarnie”, a personal manager
- And her father David “Dave” Olsen, a real estate developer and mortgage banker
- She is the younger sister of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
- Who became noted at an early age as TV and film stars
- Olsen also has an older brother, Trent
- And two younger half-siblings
- In 1996, her parents divorced
- The Olsens have Norwegian and English ancestry
- As a child, Olsen received ballet and singing lessons
- She began acting at a young age, with appearances in her sisters’ films
- Before the age of 11, Olsen had small roles in How the West Was Fun and the straight-to-video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley
- Having appeared in her sisters’ videos
- When she was in the fourth grade, Olsen began to go on auditions for other projects
- She 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 at the Moscow Art Theatre School through the MATS program at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
- Olsen began acting when she was four years old and co-starred in six of Mary-Kate and Ashley’s productions
- She also auditioned for the film Spy Kids
- She almost quit acting in 2004 due to the media frenzy surrounding Mary-Kate’s eating disorder
- Olsen’s breakout role came in 2011, in the film Martha Marcy May Marlene
- The film, along with Olsen’s performance, received critical acclaim
- Olsen was nominated for and won numerous critics awards for her portrayal of the titular character Martha
- A girl suffering from delusions and paranoia after fleeing her life in a cult and returning to her family
- She next appeared in the horror film remake Silent House
- In which she played the role of Sarah
- The film received mixed reviews
- But Olsen’s performance was praised
- Olsen also appeared in the music video “The Queen” by Carlotta
- Olsen filmed the movie Red Lights in mid-2011
- And it was released in the U.S. on July 13, 2012
- She starred in Josh Radnor’s film Liberal Arts
- Which was released on January 22, 2012
- She and Dakota Fanning starred in Very Good Girls, a 2013 release
- In January 2013, Olsen was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award
- She co-starred in the 2013 American remake of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy
- She played Marie, a young social worker who developed a relationship with the protagonist, played by Josh Brolin
- She played Edie Parker, Jack Kerouac’s first wife and the author of the Beat Generation memoir You’ll Be Okay, in Kill Your Darlings
- Also in 2013, she portrayed the leading role in In Secret
- An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1867 classic novel Thérèse Raquin
- In 2014, Olsen starred in Legendary’s reboot Godzilla, opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- Olsen joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing the character of Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the 2015 sequel to The Avengers
- She first appeared as the character in a mid-credits scene of the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Alongside her Godzilla co-star Taylor-Johnson, who portrayed her brother Quicksilver
- She reprised the role in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War and the 2018 sequel Avengers: Infinity War
- Olsen starred alongside her Avengers: Age of Ultron co-star Jeremy Renner in Taylor Sheridan’s directorial feature film debut, Wind River
- Later that year she starred in Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West opposite Aubrey Plaza
- Both films were released in August 2017
- In late 2018, Disney confirmed a Marvel television series starring Olsen and Paul Bettany would be aired on their upcoming Disney+ streaming service
- The title of the show, WandaVision, was confirmed in April 2019
- Olsen attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Theater Company and graduated in March 2013 after six years of intermittent study
- Her sisters’ clothing line “Elizabeth and James” was named after her and her older brother
- Olsen and Boyd Holbrook became engaged in March 2014
- But later ended their engagement in January 2015