Wilde began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of television and film productions, including her roles in the dramas The O.C., The Black Donnellys, and House, and had starring roles in films Tron: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens, Green Lantern, and in Time. Her father’s upper-class British ancestors lived in several countries during the height of colonialism and the British Empire, including Peking, China (where her paternal grandfather was born), Calcutta and Bombay, India, Cairo, Egypt, and Tasmania, Australia (one of her paternal great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was Governor of Hong Kong). Wilde’s ancestry consists of English, Scottish, Irish, and German; she is also of more distant Sephardi Jewish descent from a paternal ancestor, Ralph Bernal (1783 – 1854), a British Whig politician. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., as well as Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002. She has also appeared in the Dashboard Confessional music video for “Stolen”, and the French Kicks music video for “So Far We Are”.
Olivia Wilde in Third Person? Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson are set to romance one another in Paul Haggis’ forthcoming movie ‘Third Person’. Olivia Wilde will play Liam Neeson’s gir… [link]
