elizabeth olsen

Elizabeth Chase Olsen, known as Lizzie, was born on February 16, 1989 in Serman Oaks, California, United States. She is the youngest of four siblings, and two of them, twins Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen , rose to fame before her as child actresses in the popular television series Housewifery and Twin Things . She herself would appear as an extra in some of her sisters’ work, but curiously, when their acting star declined as their facet as clothing designers grew, she has begun to stand out as an actress with a few films with a clear indie flavor.

As a child, Elizabeth did theater and musicals at school and at camps, even practicing alone in her room. And her art suited her, judging by the studies she chose over time, at the Atlantic Theater Company and at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts.

And suddenly, out of almost nowhere, 2011 has been the year of Elizabeth. She is directed by Australian Bruce Beresford in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding , where she is a teenager who goes to spend the holidays with her hippy mother in the country; it is her first serious on-screen work of hers. It was a good way to start, but where Olsen has given the bell, making locals and strangers wonder which of the twins was Elizabeth, they were so clueless about the actress, has been the film presented at Sundance Martha Marcy May Marlene, where she is a woman with problems after breaking away from a strange sect to go live with her sister and brother-in-law. Sean Durkin’s film is unsettling and leaves a bad body, but it is clear that the newly released actress does a good job, which has earned her recognition such as a Spirit nomination, and several awards from critics. The actress recounted that her favorite movie, Gone with the Wind, inspired her in some way : “The reason why I love my character of Martha is the same, you would want to hate Scarlet [O’Hara, the protagonist] for the whole film, but nevertheless you want it…”.

Silent House , directed by the disturbing people in charge of Open Water , Chris Kentis and Laura Lau , is the American adaptation of La casa muta , a Uruguayan horror film signed by Gustavo Hernández , which with a lot of camera in hand shows the scares of father and daughter in a house that they want to sell. Almost immediately, perhaps because he saw her at Sundance, the Spanish Rodrigo Cortés signed her for his paranormal thriller Red Lights , where she is a smart university student who will have a relationship with the character of Cillian Murphy . She assures Olsen that she was blown away by her co-star,Sigourney Weaver , because to compose her character “she made her own choices without it ever seeming difficult.”

What lies ahead for Olsen looks very promising. Josh Radnor , the man behind the surprising Happythankyoumoreplease is directing it at Liberal Arts , where a thirty-something man falls in love with her. With Dakota Fanning she is preparing to make Very Good Girls , about two teenagers, great friends, in love with the same boy. Although the biggest challenge will come with Thérèse Raquin , not only because she will face Glenn Close , but because it is an adaptation of the Émile Zola classic , where she will be the title character.

Olsen assures that in his work he is helped by the confidence that the rest of the team is doing their best. And he affirms that nothing is more frightening than loneliness, especially when it is provoked by oneself. Not bad for a 22 year old.