In May 2012, Wilde's character, Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, returned for the series finale of House for two episodes, " Holding On" and " Everybody Dies." She starred in the film People Like Us (2012), Third Person (2012), The Words (2012) and as Liza in Deadfall (2012), a thriller about two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration. #CRACK FOR RICHARD BURNS RALLY FREE#Wilde made her directing and screenwriting debut with the film Free Hugs (2011) for Glamour Magazine's short film series, which was screened at various festivals. In 2011, Wilde became a global brand ambassador for the cosmetic company Revlon, which featured her in their commercials. She was also in the films In Time (2011), On the Inside (2011) and Butter (2011). Wilde starred in Cowboys & Aliens (2011) as Ella Swensen, who works with other characters to save the Earth from evil aliens, and also starred in the comedy The Change-Up (2011). In August 2011, it was announced Wilde would be leaving House to further pursue her film career she left a few months later, in the episode " Charity Case". Wilde at the Tron: Legacy premiere, December 2010 #CRACK FOR RICHARD BURNS RALLY MOVIE#Inspired by her award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker parents, Wilde has served as executive producer on several documentary short films, such as Sun City Picture House (2010), which is about a community in Haiti that rallies to build a movie theater after the disastrous 2010 earthquake. She starred in Disney's Tron: Legacy (2010) as Quorra. Wilde appeared in the comedy film Year One (2009) as Princess Inanna. Her first appearance was in the episode " The Right Stuff". She played the character of Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, a bisexual internist with Huntington's disease, who was handpicked by House out of a number of applicants to join his medical team. In September 2007, Wilde joined the cast of the medical drama television series House. She was also in The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007) and the short-lived drama television series The Black Donnellys (2007). In 2007, she starred off-Broadway in Beauty on the Vine, a political thriller, playing three different characters. She appeared in films The Girl Next Door (2004), Conversations with Other Women (2005), Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006), Turistas (2006) and Alpha Dog (2006). She gained attention for her recurring role as bisexual bar owner, Alex Kelly, who dates both characters played by Adam Brody and Mischa Barton on the teen drama television series, The O.C. #CRACK FOR RICHARD BURNS RALLY SKIN#Wilde appeared as "Jewel Goldman" on the short-lived television series Skin (2003–2004). Wilde's ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Manx, and Scottish she is also of 1/64th Sephardic Jewish descent through her great-great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Bernal (1783–1854), a British Whig politician and actor. Through her father's family Wilde is related to George Cockburn, who was responsible for burning down Washington, D.C. One of Wilde's great-great-grandfathers, Henry Arthur Blake, was governor of Hong Kong. The Cockburns descend from the lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn. Some of Wilde's paternal Scottish ancestors were upper-class and lived in many locations at the height of the British Empire, including Peking (where her paternal grandfather was born), Calcutta, Bombay, Cairo, and Tasmania. Writer Christopher Hitchens was the Cockburn family's tenant in Washington, D.C. Her grandfather Claud Cockburn and his sons Alexander and Patrick Cockburn also worked as journalists and her aunt, Sarah Caudwell, was a writer. She has a sister five years older and a brother nine years younger. For a short time, Wilde's family also had a house in Guilford, Vermont. He was born in London and raised in Ireland. Her father, Andrew Cockburn, is also a journalist, and is a son of British novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn. Wilde's mother, Leslie Cockburn ( née Redlich), is an American producer on 60 Minutes and journalist. She then studied at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin. She was accepted to Bard College, but deferred her enrollment three times in order to pursue acting. Wilde derived her surname from Irish author Oscar Wilde, and started using it while in high school to honor the writers in her family, many of whom used pen names. and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 2002. She attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C. while spending summers at Ardmore in Ireland. She grew up in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Wilde was born Olivia Jane Cockburn in New York City on March 10, 1984.
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