Outside of her work with Marvel, Olsen starred in the monster film Godzilla (2014), the mystery film Wind River (2017), and the dramas Ingrid Goes West (2017) and His Three Daughters (2024). She also starred as a widow in the drama series Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019) and as Candy Montgomery in the miniseries Love & Death (2023), with the latter earning her another nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Chase Olsen[1] was born on February 16, 1989, in Sherman Oaks, California.[2][3] Her mother, Jarnie, is a former dancer, while her father, Dave, is a real estate agent.[4][5] She is the younger sister of twin fashion designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who became successful television and film actresses as children. Olsen also has an older brother, James "Trent" Olsen (born 1984).[5][6] Her parents divorced in 1996,[7] and their father remarried that same year. Through him and his second wife, McKenzie, the four siblings have two half-siblings: Courtney and Jake.[6]
Olsen made her film debut in the 2011 thriller film Martha Marcy May Marlene.[16] The film, along with her performance, received critical acclaim following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.[17][18] Olsen earned several award nominations for her portrayal of the titular Martha, a young woman suffering from delusions after fleeing her life in a cult and returning to her family,[17][19] including those for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.[18] She attributed her interest in the character to her own fascination with mental illnesses.[16] Olsen next appeared in the horror film Silent House, which garnered her "rave reviews".[20] Despite premiering at the Sundance Film Festival alongside Martha Marcy May Marlene, it was released in 2012,[21] during which she also starred in the thriller Red Lights and the comedy Liberal Arts.[22]
She played the leading role in In Secret, a film adaptation of Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin. The film was released in February 2014.[27] Later that year, Olsen starred in the monster film Godzilla, opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, which received positive reviews and grossed $529 million against a $160 million production budget.[28][29] She and Dakota Fanning co-starred as teenage girls in Brooklyn in the film Very Good Girls, released that same year,[30] which Josh Duboff of Vanity Fair characterized as unfavorably reviewed.[31]
Marvel Cinematic Universe and continued success (2015–present)
Olsen portrayed Audrey Williams, the wife, manager, and duet partner of singer Hank Williams, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, in the 2015 biographical film I Saw the Light, directed by Marc Abraham.[43] In 2017, she starred as a novice FBI agent in the mystery film Wind River and a social media influencer in the comedy-drama film Ingrid Goes West, both of which were released in August to critical praise.[44][45][46]Vulture's David Edelstein found Olsen's "incongruously high-schoolish demeanor" in Wind River problematic,[47] while Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that she gave a "major eye-opener of a performance" in Ingrid Goes West, deeming it "toxic perfection".[48] The following year, she appeared in the Netflix film Kodachrome, playing a caregiver to a photographer, played by Ed Harris.[49] Olsen executive produced and starred as a young widow named Leigh Shaw in the Facebook Watch web television series Sorry for Your Loss, which premiered in September 2018.[50] She said the three years it took to develop the series enabled her to immerse herself in Shaw's impulses.[51] Critics reviewed the series positively,[52] and Olsen's performance, which earned her a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series,[53] was noted as "stunning",[54] "disciplined and sharp",[55] as well as "slyly sympathetic".[56] The show was canceled in January 2020 after two seasons.[57]
Olsen starred as housewife Candy Montgomery in Love and Death (2023), an HBO Max limited series about a 1980 killing in Texas.[66] Her performance earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film.[67] Following the series, Olsen then starred in Azazel Jacobs' drama film His Three Daughters and the science fiction thriller The Assessment.[68]
Olsen has credited Diane Keaton as a primary influence, both in her acting and personal life. Keaton has helped Olsen learn to be "the kind of woman I wanted to be, because I hadn’t seen the woman I felt connected to in films. I was like, I’m not the sexy one, I’m not the nerd, I don’t know where I fit."[12] Her older sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley, have also influenced her and given her career advice, though at one point Olsen considered changing her name to her middle name, Chase, to distance herself from her sisters, as she wanted to be noticed for her talent and not solely for being their sister.[1]
Olsen says she became an atheist at the age of 13 because she believes "religion should be about community and having a place to go in prayer, not something that should determine women's freedoms."[71] She once held a real estate license in New York, which she obtained after first moving there.[72] Olsen is an ambassador for the company Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.[52] She and actor Boyd Holbrook were in a relationship from 2011 to 2014.[73]
Olsen became engaged to musician Robbie Arnett, of the American band Milo Greene, in July 2019 after three years of dating.[74][75] The two secretly eloped that same year.[76][12] She and Arnett live in Los Angeles.[77] Together, they co-wrote the children's books Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective, released in June 2022, and Hattie Harmony: Opening Night, released in June 2023. Olsen and Arnett's experiences with anxiety inspired the books' creations.[78][79]
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