Olivia Thirlby

Olivia J. Thirlby is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Leah in the comedydrama film Juno , as Natalie in The Darkest Hour and as Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd . In June 2008, Thirlby was described by Vanity Fair as a member of Hollywoods New Wave.

Thirlby was born in New York City, New York to an advertising executive mother and a contractor father. She was raised in Manhattans East Village, attending school at Friends Seminary in the citys Gramercy neighborhood, where she graduated in a class of 57 students. She also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in upstate New York, and Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts . She took classes at the American Globe Theatre, and briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London where she completed a stage combat course with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat .

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