Elizabeth Olsen

Biography of Elizabeth Olsen

Elizabeth Chase Olsen was born on February 16, 1989 in Sherman Oaks, California. She is an American actress.

Elizabeth Chase Olsen's mother, Jarnette Olsen, is a former dancer and her father, David Olsen, a banker and property developer. She is the younger sister of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who started acting in films and television as children. Olsen has an older brother, a younger half brother and a younger half sister. Her parents divorced in 1996.

Olsen began acting when she was four years old and has appeared several times in Mary-Kate and Ashley's projects. As a child, she took acting classes and spent time in musical theater camp. Olsen almost quit acting in 2004 after media attention was drawn to Mary-Kate's eating disorder.

After graduating from Campbell Hall School in 2007, she studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company and attended the film school Tisch School of the Arts. Olsen graduated from NYU in January 2013.

In 2011 she took on the lead role in the horror film Silent House. In the same year she received good reviews for her portrayal of Martha in Martha Marcy May Marlene. For this role, she was nominated for several awards, including the Saturn Award and Satellite Award. She also received a Most Promising Performer award from the Chicago Film Critics Association. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored her and the other leading actors as Best Young Talent.

In Red Lights (2012) she starred alongside Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver. She has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2014 as the Scarlet Witch, also known as Wanda Maximoff. As such, she has appeared in The Return of the First Avenger, 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, 2016's Captain America: Civil War, 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, and 2019's Avengers: Endgame. She can also be seen as the Scarlet Witch in the Disney+ series WandaVision, which started in January 2021. She also took on this role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

Olsen stars as an FBI agent in Taylor Sheridan's thriller Wind River, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017.

In 2017 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars annually.

Olsen has been an atheist since she was 13 because she believes that religion should be a community and a place to pray, not something that should determine women's freedom. She is an ambassador for Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.

Olsen was engaged to actor Boyd Holbrook, from whom she split in 2014. In June 2019, she became engaged to Robbie Arnett, a singer and musician of the American band Milo Green. They live together in Los Angeles. In June 2021, Olsen announced that the two had married.