Olivia Wilde as Thirteen
Born on March 10, 1984 in New York as Olivia Jane Cockburn, actress Olivia Wilde belonged to a family of journalists and media personalities. At a very young age, she aspired to become an actress, and was later educated at The Gaiety School of Acting. She began working as a casting assistant and later ventured into acting.
Wilde's film projects include The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, Conversations with Other Women and Turistas. She also worked on the television series, The O.C., where she played the recurring role of the bisexual Alex Kelly. She also appeared in the Dashboard Confessional music video entitled "Stolen." In 2005, she landed the 61st spot on Maxim magazine's Hot 100. A year later, she ranked #95 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006.
In 2007, Wilde became part of the cast of the short-lived NBC midseason drama entitled The Black Donnellys as Jenny Reilly. In the same year, as he was cast in the FOX medical drama, House as a young doctor called Thirteen.
In talking about her character in The Black Donnellys, Wilde said in an interview with The Sci Fi World, "I found it fascinating that so many difficult things - so many painful things that happened during her life, and yet she didn’t feel sorry for herself, didn’t tell a soft story about her, you know, difficult childhood, she was very strong and resilient and I think that’s what I try to take and put into Jenny. I think it is a matter of survival, I think that’s what they ask to do in order to keep going in that world. I think especially the women, have to remain incredibly strong kind of turn the other cheek pretend they’re not seeing a lot of what’s going on and yet, keep everything going and nurturing and so I think that’s what’s so great about Kate’s character, is that she sort or coaching Jenny in the ways of being a woman in this neighborhood and what Jenny’s going to have to deal with in the future, even though she’s grown up as one as one of the boys, now she’s going to have to start covering for them."
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