Olivia Wilde

Some Lesser Known Facts About Olivia Wilde

• Does Olivia Wilde smoke?: Yes

  

• Does Olivia Wilde drink alcohol?: Yes

  

• She herself has changed her name from Olivia Cockburn to Olivia Wilde to pay respect for the Irish poet Oscar Wilde.

• She belongs to the upper-class high-status family. All the people in the family are either literary figures or in the well-reputed professions like judges and politicians etc.

• Her family is full of journalists and writers.

• When she was 2 years old, she decided to choose acting as a profession.

  

• She has produced few documentaries for her award-winning journalist parents.

• Olivia was not taken as the cast of the movie ‘The Girl Next Door‘, immediately. She had nearly spent a month on the sets of the movie, before being accepted to be the part of the cast.

• She married at the age of 18 in a bus. She said that she married in a bus because that was the only place where she and her mate found privacy.

• Olivia had won a pancake eating festival when she was young.

• She is a natural blonde but always dyes her hair with a tinge of brown.

• She has a passion for collecting vintage cars.

• Olivia has two pet dogs and she loves them.

  

• Olivia featured in the documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. She was followed to capture the life of the women who live in Nairobi, Kenya.

• Wilde also directed the video song “Dark Necessities” with “Red Hoe Chili Peppers” for their album The Gateway.

• PETA named Olivia as the “Sexiest Vegetarian Women” in 2010.

• Olivia did campaigning for Barrack Obama along with her House movie co-star Kal Penn.

• She introduced Hillary Rodham Clinton at a campaign on June 30, 2015.

• She has done a lot of activist works: supporting farmers, voting, women’s education & health and justice, RYOT and Down Syndrome.