Olivia Thirlby

Born             :  October 6, 1986
Occupation  :  Actress

Personal Life

Olivia J. Thirlby born October 6, 1986 is an American actress best known for her roles as Leah, the best friend of Ellen Page's character in the 2007 film Juno as Natalie in The Darkest Hour (2011) and Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd (2012). In June 2008, Thirlby was described by Vanity Fair magazine as a member of "Hollywood's New Wave".

She was born in New York City, to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father. 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. She also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York. 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).  Thirlby is a participant in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project. In a new interview with Brooklyn Magazine (with photos shot by iO), Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual and stated why she decided to be a part of a civil rights photography project that focuses on people who are "anything but 100 percent straight."