Olivia Cooke Net Worth: $5 Million
| Net Worth: | $5 Million |
| Date of Birth: | Dec 27, 1993 |
| Age: | 29 years |
| Profession: | Actor |
| Nationality: | England |
Olivia Cooke net worth is around $5 million. Olivia Cooke is a famous English actress.
Olivia Cooke Biography:
| Born | Olivia Kate Cooke 27 December 1993 (age 29) Oldham, Greater Manchester, England |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Olivia Cooke was born on 27 December 1993 in Oldham, Greater Manchester, to sales representative Lindsay Wilde and retired police officer John Cooke.
Olivia’s parents divorced when she was a child, and she and her sister lived with their mother. Olivia started acting when she was eight years old at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme in her hometown.
Olivia Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Academy and studied drama at Oldham Sixth Form College, leaving before the end of her A-levels to appear in the drama series Blackout.
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.
When Olivia was 14, she got her first local agent, who gained her commercial roles. In 2012, Olivia appeared in One Direction’s “Autumn Term” tour video as a student getting a piggyback ride from Harry Styles.
Although her agent discouraged her from enrolling in drama school because she was already getting acting work, she was keen on applying to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and made it to the final round of auditions, but was not accepted.
In 2012 Olivia Cooke appeared in the Autumn Term Tour video for One Direction. Olivia Cooke debuted the same year starring as Meg Demoys in the TV mini-series Blackout and as Nancy Linnet in the TV mini-series The Secret of Crickley Hall.
Olivia Cooke TV Career:
After Cooke performed at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, Beverley Keogh, a casting director secured her roles in television. Cooke starred in all three BBC mini-series productions in 2012: Blackout,as the daughter of Christopher Eccleston’s character, and The Secret of Crickley Hall, as a young teacher at a tyrannical orphanage in the 1940s.
Olivia Cooke stated that she felt better suited for television than theatre, as she was embarrassed by the exaggerated gestures sometimes required for stage acting.
Despite being a novice, Cooke distinguished herself among European actresses in the gruelling casting process for The Quiet Ones, which opened in April 2014, two years after filming took place.
Olivia Cooke best known role has come starring as Emma Decody in the television series Bates Model since 2013.
Cooke’s second feature film The Signal, with Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne, opened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. In October 2014, Cooke led the cast of Ouija, a horror film based on Hasbro’s board game. Despite bad reviews by critics, Ouija was a box office success, grossing approximately $102.5 million worldwide.
Olivia Cooke was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award in 2015 for Best Supporting Actress for The Quiet Ones.
Olivia next appeared in the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Olivia played the titular character in the independent drama film Katie Says Goodbye, alongside Jim Belushi, Mireille Enos, Christopher Abbott, and Mary Steenburgen.
Olivia starred as Art3mis in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction adventure Ready Player One, which was released in March 2018.
Olivia Cooke starred in the drama film Sound of Metal, alongside Riz Ahmed. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019.
In the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, Olivia Cooke appears as MI5 agent Sidonie “Sid” Baker.