Olivia Thirlby: 5 Things To Know About Actress Who Starred In ‘Juno’ With Elliot Page

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Olivia Thirlby, 36, has been appearing connected TV and successful movies for astir 20 years. One of the actress’s breakout roles came successful 2007, erstwhile she acted alongside Elliot Page, 36, successful the beloved coming-of-age film Juno. She played the quirky champion person Leah to Elliot’s Juno, and her quality is inactive beloved by galore of the fans who grew up watching it. Over the years, she’s appeared successful assorted roles, popping up successful antithetic films and TV shows.

In Elliot’s caller memoir Pageboy, he opens up astir a assortment of subjects, including his sex identity, coming retired arsenic trans, and his explorations of sexuality. In the book, Elliot reveals that helium and Olivia got precise close portion moving on Juno. Find retired much astir Olivia here.

Olivia astatine the premiere of ‘The L Word: Generation Q.’ (Shutterstock)

Elliot claimed helium and Olivia had enactment ‘all the time’ portion making ‘Juno’

In Pageboy, Elliot said that helium felt an attraction to Olivia close disconnected the bat portion making the 2007 movie. He said that helium instantly felt like she was “sexually open,” and helium was instantly taken. “The chemistry was palpable, it pulled maine in,” helium said.

He said that they stared spending tons of prime clip together, and that erstwhile they some admitted that they were attracted to 1 another, they started to person enactment regularly. “I had an all-encompassing tendency for her, she made maine privation successful a mode that was new, hopeful,” helium said. “We thought we were being subtle. Being intimate with Olivia helped my shame dissipate. I didn’t spot a glint of it successful her eyes and I wanted that — done feeling wretched astir who I am.”

Olivia is seen down Elliot successful a country successful ‘Juno.’ (Everett)

Besides ‘Juno,’ Olivia has starred successful ‘No Strings Attached’, ‘Y: The Last Man’, and more.

While Juno is 1 of her astir well-known roles, Olivia has appeared successful a wide assortment of projects implicit the years. She made her debut successful the 2006 film United 93. Some of her different large movies see the Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman-starring romcom No Strings Attached (2011), and the TV series The L Word: Generation Q. Most recently, she starred arsenic Hero Brown successful the series Y: The Last Man and successful the 2022 short Artist In A Field. 

She’s bisexual

Olivia came retired arsenic bisexual successful a 2012 interrogation with Brooklyn Magazine. She spoke openly astir her intersexual predisposition portion discussing a photograph task she was taking portion in. “For maine personally it’s important to beryllium a portion of this due to the fact that I consciousness it’s a mode of maine showing gratitude that I unrecorded surrounded by a assemblage successful which I don’t person to fell my intersexual orientation. And nary 1 should person to fell their intersexual orientation,” she said. “I americium not 1 100 percent straight.”

She’s joined to Jacques Pienaar

Olivia astatine LA Comic Con. (Shutterstock)

In 2012, Olivia met Jacques Pienaar while moving connected the film Dredd. While she starred, helium was a roar operator. They fell successful emotion and got joined successful December 2014. After 2 years, she gushed astir her hubby successful a loving Instagram station to commemorate their 2nd day successful 2016. “Two years of mawwage to this handsome fool, my champion friend, my escapade buddy, my brother, my boom&vortels, my favourite boyfriend, my everything. Thanks for keeping it weird with maine baba. I emotion you truthful much,” she wrote.

She loves the outdoors

Besides her acting work, it’s precise wide that Olivia is precise passionate astir getting retired and exploring nature. She regularly shares photos of her outdoor adventures connected her Instagram. She often shares shots of her and her hubby exploring forests and stunning landscapes with gigantic trees.

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