Elizabeth Chase “Lizzie” Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an American actress and is the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
She did theater as a child and has appeared in many of her sisters’ productions. She is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University[citation needed] and the Atlantic Theater Company. Olsen graduated from Campbell Hall School in 2007.
Lizzie Olsen’s career began at the age of four when she acted in some of her sisters’ first movie, Our First Video. She guest starred in Mary-Kate and Ashley’s direct-to-video series titled The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley. She cameoed in How the West Was Fun, another of her sisters’ productions.
Elizabeth Olsen in “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Following in the footsteps of Mary-Kate and Ashley, Olsen starred in three movies, to be released in 2011 and 2012. She first acted in a movie titled Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding, in which she played the role of Zoe. She also acted in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Olsen stars as Martha, “a damaged woman haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, who struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing a cult.” The movie is labeled as an “indie” drama.
Of Martha, The Hollywood Reporter writes:
“The Olsen twins’ sis scores with a star-making turn in this mesmerizing feature debut from writer-director Sean Durkin.”
Elizabeth Olsen in “Silent House”
Another film she has acted in is titled The Silent House, where she played the role of Sarah. This film is also in post-production. Olsen is in every shot of Silent House, since the camera follows her in a single shot throughout the movie, either behind her shoulder or in front of her, capturing the rising fear, then panic then hysteria that she effectively sustains through the film’s 90 minutes. Something about her candor and affect are winning comparisons to Maggie Gyllenhaal, rather than her sisters. Filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, who shot the single camera thriller Open Water a few years back, shot Silent House in five weeks in New Rochelle, based on a Uruguayan movie of the same name. It was technically very challenging, since every shot was long and involved a long list of production staff and actors working together and correctly to maintain the shot. That, and the intensity of the role, made it incredibly gruelling for Olsen, she said.
“By the end of the day you’d have given all you can every time … it was exhausting,” she said. “I had lots and lots of migraines and sinus infections from breathing in snot. It was just really exhausting.”
Cinema Blend reviews Olsen’s performance in Silent House:
“Olsen’s constant terror bleeds through to the audience with the camera keeping constant vigil. It gets a little exhausting to watch her cry and scream constantly, and it’s a shame the directors don’t give Olsen a broader emotional range to play beyond “scared to death,” but her fully committed performance makes it compelling all the same.”
Elizabeth Olsen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival
Her starring role in these films garnered positive reviews at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and led to a starring role opposite Robert De Niro in the thriller Red Lights.
“I think it’s just staying grounded. It’s not something I think about. I think it’s something media puts upon people. I don’t think it’s something that people healthily think about, like, ‘Now I’m a celebrity!’ I don’t think people should think like that. I hope that whatever press comes about from Sundance will further the films’ hope for getting distribution.”
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