Elizabeth Olsen is an American actress and the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She’s also known for her critically acclaimed role in ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ and for playing the Scarlet Witch in the ‘Avengers’ franchise.
Born in Sherman Oaks, California, in 1989, Elizabeth Olsen grew up in the entertainment business as the younger sister of actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. She first worked as an actress in her sisters’ films as a child, and was in her 20s when she first began to develop her own film career, appearing in such movies as Silent House and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (both in 2011). That same year, Olsen had a career breakthrough with her critically acclaimed role in the film Martha Marcy May Marlene. Since then, she has appeared in several more dramas, including Kill Your Darlings (2013), and in the huge international blockbusters Godzilla (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).
Actress Elizabeth Chase Olsen was born on February 16, 1989, in Sherman Oaks, California, the third daughter of David Olsen, a mortgage banker, and Jarnie Olsen, a manager. Olsen’s older twin sisters are actresses/entrepreneurs Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who first gained fame on the family sitcom Full House. Elizabeth, nicknamed “Lizzie,” began acting at a very young age, with appearances in her sisters’ films. Before the age of 11, she had landed small roles in How the West Was Fun, Our First Video and the straight-to-video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley.
Of her acting career and relationship with her sisters during this period, Olsen said, “Well, that was like after-school for me. I’d hang out and they’d be like, ‘Hey, you want to be in this one?’ Then they’d paint half my face dark brown or something — ‘Silly sister, forgot to put sunscreen on half her face.'”
Olsen attended Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood, California, from kindergarten through grade 12. Following her high school graduation, she enrolled at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2009, she spent a semester studying in Russia at the Moscow Art Theatre School. “I’ve been taking acting classes since I was 7,” the actress later said. “I took classes, kids auditioning with their mothers, and I didn’t want that, I just liked the classes. I met my agent through understudying a Broadway play, and I was doing some underground stuff that nobody saw.”
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