Olivia Wilde - actress; biography; photo wallpapers: Olivia Wilde (born Olivia Jane Cockburn on March 10, 1984) is an American actress. Coming from a family of journalists, she began acting in the early 2000s, and has since appeared in a number of film and television parts, including her roles on the series The O.C. and The Black Donnellys. Wilde was born in New York City. Her mother, Leslie (née Corkhill Redlich), is a 60 Minutes producer and journalist, and her father, Andrew Cockburn, is an Irish journalist, as are her uncles Alexander and Patrick. Her paternal grandfather was the British novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn. Wilde has said that as a result of her family background, she has a "strong journalistic streak", being "really critical and analytical". She has wanted to become an actress since the age of two. Wilde attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., as well as the Phillips Academy, and subsequently moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she attended The Gaiety School of Acting. She had initially began working as a casting assistant, and changed her surname from "Cockburn" to "Wilde" when she began acting professionally. Wilde has dual citizenship between the United Stated and Ireland. On June 7, 2003, Wilde, nineteen at the time, married Prince Tao Ruspoli, an Italian documentary filmmaker, photographer and flamenco guitar player of aristocratic origin; the two eloped six months after they met and were married in a small civil ceremony conducted by a Justice of the Peace. They were introduced to each other at a party by journalist Duncan Campbell, a friend of Wilde's family. Wilde has said that she and her husband are from "completely different worlds". Wilde is a natural blonde and has stated that people have been "shocked" that she is a blonde but that "I wasn’t stupid".