Olivia Thirlby

Olivia Thirlby is one of those actors who genuinely deserved more Hollywood real estate than she got. Her turn as Leah in Juno is one of the great best-friend performances of the 2000s — sharp, funny, and completely lived-in, without a single false note. Then she went and held her own opposite Karl Urban in Dredd, playing Judge Anderson with a quiet authority that made you wish they'd made five sequels. What I love about her is that she's never been a careerist in the obvious sense — she's done theater, she's taken smaller projects, she's refused to be boxed in. The Oppenheimer credit in 2023 was a nice reminder that smart directors still know where to find her. A criminally underrated New Yorker with real range.

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Name (English)

Olivia Thirlby

Name (Japanese)

オリヴィア・サールビー

Reading

おりゔぃあ・さーるびー

Born

October 6, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / stage actor / television actor / film actor

• Official sitehttps://oliviathirlby.org/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/miss.ot/
• Xhttps://x.com/missthirlby
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Thirlby
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242550

Tags

• New York
• actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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