TIL actress Olivia Wilde, born Olivia Jane Cockburn, chose to change her last name in high school to honor her relatives who were authors who used pen names. She chose Irish author Oscar Wilde and she spent her childhood summers in Ireland and studied acting in college in Ireland as well.
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She was actually my first girl friend back in the day. But you wouldn’t of known her. She went to a different gaeltacht.
If my surname was Cockburn, I’d change it too.
What is this crap? Wtf is Olivia Wilde. Her name was Cockburn and she changed it. Fair play to her, saved herself a world of ridicule.
“to honour her relatives” riiight yeah, definitely not because her surname was Cockburn
She might want to get that looked at..
Her family is full of well-known journalists. Patrick Cockburn, who is Irish, is one of the best foreign correspondents around.
She’s so hot in that Jack Black caveman film
She just got sick of explaining how the ‘ck’ in cock is silent.
Screw her, the Ted Lasso cheating, Harry Stiles wanking tart! Team Sudakis!!!!
Spent her summers in Ardmore