Olivia Cooke
British actress (born 1993)
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- Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress.
- Early life Olivia Kate Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England to sales representative Lindsay Wilde and police officer John Cooke.
- She started acting when she was eight years old at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme in her hometown.
- She starred as Maria in a college production of West Side Story , and soon landed her first and last leading role for the Oldham Theatre Workshop in Prom: The Musical , a remake of Cinderella .
- In 2012, she appeared in One Direction's "Autumn Term" tour video as a student getting a piggyback ride from Harry Styles.
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WikipediaOlivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. She has appeared as Alicent Hightower in the fantasy drama television series House of the Dragon (2022–present), Emma Decody in the thriller Bates Motel (2013–2017), Becky Sharp in the period drama Vanity Fair (2018), spy Sidonie "Sid" Baker in the Apple TV thriller Slow Horses (2022), and Cherry Laine in the psychological thriller The Girlfriend (2025).
In film, Cooke has starred in the horror film Ouija (2014), the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), the thriller Thoroughbreds (2017), the science fiction film Ready Player One (2018), the comedy thriller Pixie (2020), and the drama Sound of Metal (2019).
Olivia Kate Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England to sales representative Lindsay Wilde and police officer John Cooke. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and she and her sister lived with their mother.
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