Olivia Thirlby

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Olivia Thirlby
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Thirlby at the 2012 Fantastic Fest promoting Dredd
Born
Olivia Jo Thirlby

(1986-10-06) October 6, 1986 (age 37)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present
Spouse
Jacques Pienaar
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(m. 2014;sep. 2021)​

Olivia Jo Thirlby [1] (born October 6, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Leah in the comedy-drama film Juno (2007), [2] as Natalie in The Darkest Hour (2011) and as Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd (2012).

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In 2023, Thirlby portrayed Lilli Hornig in Christopher Nolan's biographical film Oppenheimer .

Early life

Thirlby was born on October 6, 1986, [3] [4] in New York City, to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father. [5] [6] She was raised in Manhattan's East Village, attending school at Friends Seminary in the city's Gramercy neighborhood, where she graduated in a class of 57 students. [2] She also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York, and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. She took classes at the American Globe Theatre, and briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she completed a stage combat course with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC). [7]

Career

While in high school, Thirlby had a role in The Secret . In 2006, she made her film debut in United 93 and her television debut in Kidnapped .

In 2007, she played Leah in Juno . Around this time, she and her Juno co-star Elliot Page were slated to star as the respective title characters of Jack & Diane as two young women who fall in love which unlocked lycanthropy in one character but both dropped out before production, and the cast was replaced numerous times over. She plays Stephanie, a marijuana-smoking "popular girl" from New York City, in Sundance Audience Award-winning mid-1990s period piece film The Wackness , which was released in the U.S. on July 3, 2008, and stars opposite Josh Peck. [2] Thirlby was cast in the Judd Apatow-produced, David Gordon Green-directed stoner comedy Pineapple Express as the girlfriend of Seth Rogen's character, but was replaced by Amber Heard after rehearsing for the film. [8] She reunited with David Gordon Green on the animated TV pilot Good Vibes . [9]

She made her stage debut in Farragut North , a play by Beau Willimon at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. The Off-Broadway production ran from October 22, 2008 – November 29, 2008 with official opening on November 12 [10] and transferred to the Geffen Playhouse in June 2009.

Thirlby appeared in the 2009 HBO series Bored to Death . She voices promotional video excerpts from the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher which, since October 2008, have regularly been posted to YouTube. [11] She also appeared in the 2011-released film Margaret . She was attached to star in Christmas in New York, though the film was not made, [12] as well as For Ellen , where it appears she did not accept a role. [13]

Thirlby starred in the Russian science-fiction film The Darkest Hour , released in 2011, directed by Chris Gorak, and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. [14]

Thirlby starred as Judge Cassandra Anderson in the 2012 film adaptation of Judge Dredd , with Karl Urban in the title role. She next starred in the indie film Nobody Walks co-starring John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt. She plays Martine, a young artist taken in a couple's home. It premiered at 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, Thirlby co-starred as the young attorney Lucy Kittridge in the Amazon Studios legal series Goliath . 2017 saw her play a main character in the thriller Damascus Cover . In 2018 she took the lead in The White Orchid. She also portrayed the main character in 2019's Above the Shadows . Thirlby featured as MCC minister Rebecca Dowery in the 2019 Showtime drama series The L Word: Generation Q . She was Hero Brown, a main character in 2021's Y: The Last Man .

Personal life

In an interview with Brooklyn Magazine in 2011, Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual. [15] That same year Thirlby agreed to participate in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project, an effort to capture the diversity of the LGTBQ+ in the United States through photography. [16] Hers is one of the many faces included in Wright’s book Self-Evident Truths: 10,000 Portraits of Queer America, published by Penguin Random House in 2020.

In 2023, Elliot Page revealed that the two were involved in a relationship while filming Juno . [17]

She married Jacques Pienaar on December 28, 2014; [18] [19] she met him on the set of her 2012 film Dredd . Pienaar filed for divorce in March 2021. [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006 United 93 Nicole Carol Miller
2007 Snow Angels Lila Raybern
Juno Leah
Love Comes Lately Sylvia Brokeles
The Secret Samantha Marris
2008 The Wackness Stephanie Squires
2009 New York, I Love You ActressSegment: "Brett Ratner"
The Answer Man Anne
Uncertainty Sophie Montero
Breaking Upwards Erika
What Goes Up Tess Sullivan
Solitary Man MaureenUncredited[ citation needed ]
2011 No Strings Attached Katie Kurtzman
Margaret Monica Sloane
The Darkest Hour Natalie
2012 Nobody Walks Martine
Being Flynn Denise
Dredd Judge Anderson
2014Red KnotChloe Harrison
5 to 7 Jane Hastings
Just Before I Go Greta
2015 The Wedding Ringer Alison Palmer
The Stanford Prison Experiment Christina Maslach
Welcome to Happiness Trudy
2016 Between Us Dianne
2017 Chappaquiddick Rachel Schiff
2018 Damascus Cover Kim Johnson
The White OrchidClaireAssociate producer
2019 Above the Shadows Holly
2023 Oppenheimer Lilli Hornig
Dumb Money Yaara Plotkin
Lousy Carter Candela

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006–2007 Kidnapped Aubrey CainRecurring role, 5 episodes
2009 Bored to Death SuzanneRecurring role (season 1), 4 episodes
2011 Good Vibes JeenaMain voice role
2016 Goliath Lucy KittridgeMain role (season 1)
2019–2020 The L Word: Generation Q Rebecca DoweryRecurring role (season 1), 5 episodes
2021 Y: The Last Man Hero BrownMain role

Theater

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Farragut North Molly StearnsLinda Gross Theater
2012Lonely, I'm NotBusinesswoman Second Stage Theatre [21]
2014O.P.C.Romi Weil American Repertory Theater

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