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Elizabeth Olsen trivia: 65 facts about the Olsen sister that everyone talks about!

Elizabeth Olsen is the little sister of the famous Olsen duo! She is a very good actress with many great performances!

Don’t you want to know a little bit more about her?

  1. Her full name is Elizabeth Chase Olsen
  2. She was born on February 16, 1989
  3. She is an American actress
  4. She is known for portraying Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
  5. Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she starred in the independent thriller drama Martha Marcy May Marlene
  6. 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
  7. 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)
  8. She achieved global recognition when she appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch
  9. With her first appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) in the end credit scene
  10. Then a lead in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the upcoming Avengers: Endgame (2019)
  11. Olsen was born in Sherman Oaks, California
  12. Her mother is Jarnette “Jarnie”, a personal manager
  13. And her father David “Dave” Olsen, a real estate developer and mortgage banker
  14. She is the younger sister of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
  15. Who became noted at an early age as TV and film stars
  16. Olsen also has an older brother, Trent
  17. And two younger half-siblings
  18. In 1996, her parents divorced
  19. The Olsens have Norwegian and English ancestry
  20. As a child, Olsen received ballet and singing lessons
  21. She began acting at a young age, with appearances in her sisters’ films
  22. 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
  23. Having appeared in her sisters’ videos
  24. When she was in the fourth grade, Olsen began to go on auditions for other projects
  25. She attended Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood, California
  26. From kindergarten through grade 12
  27. After graduation, she enrolled at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
  28. 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
  29. Olsen began acting when she was four years old and co-starred in six of Mary-Kate and Ashley’s productions
  30. She also auditioned for the film Spy Kids
  31. She almost quit acting in 2004 due to the media frenzy surrounding Mary-Kate’s eating disorder
  32. Olsen’s breakout role came in 2011, in the film Martha Marcy May Marlene
  33. The film, along with Olsen’s performance, received critical acclaim
  34. Olsen was nominated for and won numerous critics awards for her portrayal of the titular character Martha
  35. A girl suffering from delusions and paranoia after fleeing her life in a cult and returning to her family
  36. She next appeared in the horror film remake Silent House
  37. In which she played the role of Sarah
  38. The film received mixed reviews
  39. But Olsen’s performance was praised
  40. Olsen also appeared in the music video “The Queen” by Carlotta
  41. Olsen filmed the movie Red Lights in mid-2011
  42. And it was released in the U.S. on July 13, 2012
  43. She starred in Josh Radnor’s film Liberal Arts
  44. Which was released on January 22, 2012
  45. She and Dakota Fanning starred in Very Good Girls, a 2013 release
  46. In January 2013, Olsen was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award
  47. She co-starred in the 2013 American remake of the 2003 South Korean film Oldboy
  48. She played Marie, a young social worker who developed a relationship with the protagonist, played by Josh Brolin
  49. 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
  50. Also in 2013, she portrayed the leading role in In Secret
  51. An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1867 classic novel Thérèse Raquin
  52. In 2014, Olsen starred in Legendary’s reboot Godzilla, opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  53. Olsen joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing the character of Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Age of Ultron, the 2015 sequel to The Avengers
  54. She first appeared as the character in a mid-credits scene of the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  55. Alongside her Godzilla co-star Taylor-Johnson, who portrayed her brother Quicksilver
  56. She reprised the role in the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War and the 2018 sequel Avengers: Infinity War
  57. Olsen starred alongside her Avengers: Age of Ultron co-star Jeremy Renner in Taylor Sheridan’s directorial feature film debut, Wind River
  58. Later that year she starred in Matt Spicer’s Ingrid Goes West opposite Aubrey Plaza
  59. Both films were released in August 2017
  60. In late 2018, Disney confirmed a Marvel television series starring Olsen and Paul Bettany would be aired on their upcoming Disney+ streaming service
  61. The title of the show, WandaVision, was confirmed in April 2019
  62. 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
  63. Her sisters’ clothing line “Elizabeth and James” was named after her and her older brother
  64. Olsen and Boyd Holbrook became engaged in March 2014
  65. But later ended their engagement in January 2015
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