The actress who boosted her acting career with her entry into the Marvel universe: Who is Elizabeth Olsen?

Elizabeth Chase Olsen was born on February 16, 1989 in Sherman Oaks, California. Her mother, Jarnie, is a former dancer; her father, Dave, is a real estate agent. She is the younger sister of twin fashion designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who were successful television and film actresses as a child.

Because Elizabeth grew up with two famous older sisters right in front of her, she chose to use a different surname for a while. And when she was in school, she used the name Elizabeth Chase. The reason was that she wanted to be separated from her sisters and their fame. Elizabeth wanted to show how successful she could be, even without using her popular siblings.

Elizabeth attended ballet and music classes as a child. She was a talented ballerina and she seemed very passionate about it. But for Elizabeth, that interest quickly faded. She was often unable to attend classes due to her sisters' obligations. For this reason, her ballet teacher fired Elizabeth and, as far as we know, she never returned to dance.

She acted in her sisters' movies when she was a child. She starred in the movies "How the West Was Fun" and "The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley" in 1994. Later, she also took part in various projects. She went to Campbell Hall School in North Hollywood for 12 years after kindergarten. After graduating from high school, she attended New York University's Tich School of the Arts. She took her semester education in Moscow in 2009.

Her acting adventure, which started with her audition for the children's movie Spy Kids, peaked with her first movie, Martha Marcy May Marlene. The movie received great acclaim for her performance and marked an important turning point in her career. She also won many awards for her role in the movie. Olsen later starred in the horror movie Silent House, which received "rave reviews". In mid 2011, she also appeared in the thriller Red Lights and the comedy Liberal Arts. In 2013, Elizabeth Olsen won the BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning starred as teenage girls in Brooklyn in the 2013 film Very Good Girls, which Vanity Fair's Josh Duboff described as negative. She played the lead role in In Secret, the film adaptation of Émile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin. The movie was released in February 2014. Later that year, Olsen starred in the monster movie Godzilla, opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

Olsen caught another rise in her career with the Scarlet Witch character she portrayed in the Marvel universe. Olsen, who played many roles in the Marvel universe from 2015 to 2018, gained great fame with this role. Olsen was cast as Audrey Williams, the wife, manager, and duet partner of singer Hank Williams, played by Tom Hiddleston, in the 2015 biopic I Saw the Light, directed by Marc Abraham. In 2017, she played a rookie FBI agent in the mystery movie Wind River. That same year, she starred as a social media influencer in the comedy-drama film Ingrid Goes West, both receiving critical acclaim in August.

Along with Paul Bettany's role as Vision, Olsen reprized as Maximoff in the superhero miniseries WandaVision, which premiered on Disney+ in January 2021. Olsen earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie and she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Outstanding Actress - Miniseries or Television Movie for her performance.

She reprized her role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was released to mixed reviews in May 2022. Olsen's performance was praised, with Variety's Owen Gleiberman writing that it "created an opera fever".

Olsen will star as housewife Candy Montgomery in Love and Death, an HBO Max limited series about a 1980 murder in Texas.

Private life

Elizabeth Olsen got engaged to Robbie Arnett, frontman of American band Milo Greene, in 2019. The two were secretly married before the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth Olsen and Arnett live in Los Angeles. They co-wrote a children's book called Hattie Harmony: Worry Detective, published in June 2022. Furthermore, Olsen also said in an interview that he has been an atheist since he was 13 years old. Among Olsen's hobbies was cooking.