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Oliver Chris
Oliver Chris is a British actor and writer, born 1978 in Tunbridge Wells; trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. Known for The Office, Green Wing, One Man, Two Guvnors, King Charles III, Trying, Rivals, and the play Jack Absolute Flies Again.
Oliver Finnegan
Oliver Finnegan, actor (IMDb nm9148177), child West End performer in Matilda the Musical and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, later The Watchers (2024), Outlander, We Are Lady Parts, Video Nasty; distinct from the National Archives historian of the same name.
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy (Norvell Hardy, 1892-1957), also known as Babe Hardy, American comic actor and silent-film "heavy" who teamed with Stan Laurel in over 100 films from 1927; The Music Box won the 1931-32 Academy Award for best short.
Oliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus (born 1983, Cape Town) is a South African film director and writer, also known for Skoonheid/Beauty, Moffie, and Living. His The Endless River was the first South African film nominated for Venice's Golden Lion, and The History of Sound competed at Cannes 2025.
Oliver Hudson
Oliver Hudson (Oliver Rutledge Hudson), American actor born 1976 in Los Angeles; son of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, brother of Kate Hudson. Known for Rules of Engagement, Nashville, Dawson's Creek, Happy Gilmore 2, and the Sibling Revelry podcast.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Oliver Mansour Jackson-Cohen), English actor born 1986 in London, known for Luke Crain in The Haunting of Hill House, Peter Quint in Bly Manor, and Adrian Griffin in The Invisible Man; son of designer Betty Jackson.
Oliver James (actor)
Oliver James (birth name Oliver James Hutson), English actor born 1980, starred as Ian Wallace in What a Girl Wants (2003) and as Jay in Raise Your Voice (2004); retired from acting in 2012, now a psychotherapist in Guildford, England. Not the psychotherapist Oliver James born 1953.
Oliver Masucci
Oliver Masucci (born 1968, Stuttgart) is a German actor, Hitler in Er ist wieder da, Ulrich Nielsen in Dark, Fassbinder in Enfant Terrible; Deutscher Filmpreis 2021 winner.
Oliver Platt
Oliver Platt (born 1960, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian-born American character actor of stage, film, and TV, known for The Three Musketeers, The West Wing, Huff, Chicago Med's Dr. Charles, and The Bear, with five Emmy nominations and a Tony nomination.
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse)
Oliver Queen (Arrowverse) is Stephen Amell's portrayal of DC's Green Arrow on The CW's Arrow (2012-2020) and its spin-off franchise. A shipwrecked billionaire presumed dead for five years, he leads Team Arrow, reveals his identity, and dies saving the multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed (Robert Oliver Reed, 1938–1999), English actor known for a macho image and hellraiser lifestyle; starred in Oliver!, Women in Love, The Devils, and Gladiator, dying in Malta mid-shoot.
Oliver Savell
Oliver Savell (born 2009) is an English child actor, also credited as Oliver Saville in some listings, known for Young Alan Carr in ITVX's Changing Ends, Belfast (2021), The Piper (2023), and the RTS Award-winning comedy performance.
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (born 1946) is an American Oscar-winning director of Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, JFK, Nixon, and W., a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran known for politically charged, controversial historical films.
Oliver Twist (1948 film)
Oliver Twist is a 1948 British drama directed by David Lean from Charles Dickens's novel, starring John Howard Davies as Oliver and Alec Guinness as Fagin.
Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Oliver Twist is a 2005 drama film directed by Roman Polanski, adapted from Charles Dickens's novel, starring Barney Clark as Oliver and Ben Kingsley as Fagin.
Oliver! (film)
Oliver! (1968), Carol Reed's film of Lionel Bart's stage musical from Dickens' Oliver Twist, produced by Romulus Films and Columbia, shot at Shepperton, won six Oscars including Best Picture, the only G-rated Best Picture winner.
Olivia Attwood
Olivia Jade Attwood (born 1991, London) is an English TV personality who found fame on Love Island series 3 in 2017 and now hosts ITV documentaries like Getting Filthy Rich and The Heat, distinct from other reality stars by her ITV presenter career.
Olivia Benson
Olivia Benson is a fictional New York City police captain, head of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit on NBC's Law & Order: SVU, played by Mariska Hargitay since 1999.
Olivia Booth-Ford
Olivia Booth-Ford is an English actress born 2010, known for Janet Hodgson in Apple TV+'s The Enfield Poltergeist (2023), the title role in the Film4 short Joy (2021), Cayla in The School for Good and Evil, and Sara Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).
Olivia Bromley
Olivia Bromley (born 1995) is an English actress, an Oxford School of Drama graduate, best known as Dawn Taylor/Fletcher in ITV's Emmerdale (2018–2026, 803 episodes), leaving when the character died in a wedding-day crash storyline; also Here Be Dragons and The Eyes of Marge.
Olivia Cheng (Canadian actress)
Olivia Cheng (Olivia Sonya Cheng) is a Canadian actress from Edmonton, Alberta, known as Mei Lin in Marco Polo and Ah Toy in Warrior, and a 2023 Leo Award winner for Sheltering Season.
Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman (Sarah Caroline Olivia Colman, born 1974) is a British actress known for Peep Show, Broadchurch, The Night Manager, her Oscar-winning Queen Anne in The Favourite, and her Emmy-winning Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown.
Olivia Cooke
Olivia Cooke, British actress from Oldham, Greater Manchester; Emma Decody in Bates Motel, Alicent Hightower in House of the Dragon, Sid Baker in Slow Horses; films include Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Ready Player One, Sound of Metal.
Olivia d'Abo
Olivia d'Abo (born 1969, London) is an English actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo, known for Karen Arnold on The Wonder Years, Nicole Wallace on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and voice roles in Star Wars and Tarzan.
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020), Tokyo-born British-American actress, two-time Best Actress Oscar winner (To Each His Own, The Heiress), Melanie in Gone with the Wind, and winner of the 1944 Warner Bros. contract lawsuit that reshaped Hollywood.
Olivia DeJonge
Olivia DeJonge (born 1998, Melbourne) is an Australian actress raised in Perth, known for The Visit, Better Watch Out, The Staircase, and as Priscilla Presley in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis (2022), later starring as Ella in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Olivia Holt
Olivia Holt (Olivia Hastings Holt), American actress and singer born 1997, known for Kickin' It, Cloak & Dagger, Cruel Summer, Heart Eyes, and Broadway's Chicago and Just in Time.
Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey (Olivia Osuna, 1951-2024) was an Argentine-born British actress, best known as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet; she later played Mary in Jesus of Nazareth, starred in Black Christmas, and won a 1969 Golden Globe.
Olivia Lua
Olivia Lua (Olivia Voltaire), American adult film performer born 1994 in Philadelphia, active from 2016 with Reality Kings, Vixen.com and Mofos; died January 2018 at 23 of a drug overdose in a West Hollywood rehab facility.
Olivia Munn
Olivia Munn (Lisa Olivia Munn, born 1980) is an American actor and host known for Attack of the Show!, The Newsroom's Sloan Sabbith, and X-Men: Apocalypse's Psylocke; also a breast cancer advocate married to John Mulaney.