Mary-Kate Olsen - Biography

Last Editor: marianne_gumapac				Mary-Kate Olsen Biography -   Name : Mary-Kate Olsen Birth Name : Mary Kate Olsen Date of Birth : 13 June, 1986 Place of Birth : Sherman Oaks, California, USA Height : 5' 2'' Education : High School in Northern Hollywood, CA; New York University. Nationality : American Profession : Actor Claim to Fame : as Michelle Elizabeth Tanner on Full House (1987-1995). Nickname : MK

Mary-Kate Olsen Trivia -

Twin sister of Ashley Olsen. When she was young, she and Ashley used to call their "Full House" (1987/I) co-stars by their characters' names so they wouldn't mess them up during taping. Older sister of Elizabeth Olsen In real life she and Ashley are very close to John Stamos, who played their uncle Jesse on "Full House" (1987/I). Enjoys shopping, going to the movies, listening to 'NSync, cheerleading and Tae Bo with her sister. Has two horses, CD and Star, and has won several prizes with them. She and Ashley both had to wear fake teeth during the later years of "Full House" (1987/I) because their teeth began to look different. At age 6, she and Ashley became the youngest producers in history. Has a bi-monthly magazine called Mary-Kate and Ashley Magazine Has a line of clothing with sister Ashley that is sold at Wal-Mart Enjoys yoga and horseback riding. In 1993 she and Ashley were supposed to play young Eves (Teena and Cindy) on "The X Files" (1993), but were eventually replaced by the Krievins twins (Erika Krievins and Sabrina Krievins) from the nearby of Vancouver. The reason were very strict child labor laws. Ranked #61 in FHM's '100 Sexiest Women' poll of 2003 On their 17th birthday (June 13, 2003), the US's Cable News Network (CNN) announced not only their birthday but the twins' total financial worth - $150,000,000 for each. The same news source predicted the twins may be billionaires by the time they're 21. During the earlier seasons of "Full House" (1987/I), the producers did not want it known that Michelle was played by twins, so Mary-Kate and Ashley were credited as Mary Kate Ashley Olsen. She and her sister became the youngest self-made millionaires in American history before they were 10 years old. Has a cousin named Christine Her favorite subjects in school are English and creative writing Voted the 20th most wanted young star for the new year by Access Hollywood and The-N networks. Her sister Ashley wasn't part of the honor. Her favorite band is Dave Matthews It is common in identical twins (which the Olsen twins are) for one sibling to be left handed and one to be right handed. Mary-Kate is the left-handed twin and Ashley is the right-handed twin. It is also common for one twin to be taller or shorter. Wears a size 6.5 shoe. She is younger than Ashley by about 2 minutes She has reportedly entered a program for treatment of an eating disorder. [June 22, 2004] Her favorite movie from 1986 is Labyrinth (1986). Her favorite party song is Rock Your Body. At 17, she and her twin sister Ashley were rated 2003's 2nd hottest teen female stars. She and Ashley both missed their high school prom to host "Saturday Night Live" (1975). The cast made it up to them by giving them a fake prom when they did their monologue. Younger sister of Trent Olsen. She donated many signed head-shots to Rocky Stone to be auctioned off to raise money to buy more toys for less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign 2004.

Mary-Kate Olsen Detailed Biography -

Born June 13th, 1986, in Sherman Oaks, CA, Mary-Kate Olsen is one-half of the multimillion-dollar franchise known as The Olsen Twins. Long before the pair had unwittingly indoctrinated themselves into the hearts and minds of adoring pre-pubescent girls (and vaguely creepy fraternity boys), however, Mary-Kate Olsen and her sister, Ashley Olsen, were simply the youngest members of the long-running sitcom Full House, which hired them just a year after their birth. Because of U.S. child-labor laws, the girls took turns playing Full House's resident cute baby girl, Michelle Tanner. Before long, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley had their own catchphrase ("You got it, dude"), which reverberated in the ears of Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) and throughout American audiences loudly enough to merit a TVQ rating -- the sitcom world's most prominent popularity contest -- second only to Bill Cosby. Mary-Kate Olsen continued her part-time role as Michelle until Full House came to a close in 1995, though she took time out to film several family-oriented straight-to-video releases, including To Grandmother's House We Go (1992), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), and How the West Was Fun (1994). Luckily for Mary-Kate Olsen, the demise of Full House hardly marked the end of her career. Along with her sister, Mary-Kate Olsen's success in the family-oriented video market planted the seeds for what would eventually become a multimillion-dollar empire with enough punch to land the twins the 83rd spot in Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful celebrities in 2003. 1995 marked Mary-Kate Olsen's big-screen debut as the scrappy, orphaned twin sister in It Takes Two, a thinly veiled send-up of The Parent Trap opposite Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg. Olsen also participated in the short-lived 1998 television series Two of a Kind, which, like Full House, followed a widower's efforts to raise his children. This time, however, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley's identical status served as a gimmick rather than an irksome legal necessity. (The producers of Full House had insisted on crediting the twins as "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen" in an effort to hide their sisterhood.) By the early 2000s, Mary-Kate Olsen had established herself as part of a verifiable marketing gold mine and, oddly enough, the not-quite-legal forbidden fruit of American pop culture. In addition to a juvenile book series, magazine, scads of videos and DVDs, countless talk show appearances, The Adventures of Mary-Kate Olsen & Ashley TV series, a clothing line, perfume, and an estimated combined net worth of more than 300-million dollars, the girls also attracted the unwanted attention of hundreds of decidedly less-wholesome Internet sites counting the days until their 18th birthday. The girls deemed this attention, as well as their number 61 ranking in For Him Magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" in 2003 as, simply, "gross." After a bit part in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle that same year, Mary-Kate Olsen both co-produced and starred in New York Minute (2004), which follows -- what else? -- a set of identical twins whose attempt at a day in Manhattan lands them in the midst of a high-profile political scandal. Though the girls insist that the only way they want to work is side by side, Mary-Kate Olsen does have one distinctive honor: Sans Ashley, she was voted the 20th most-wanted young star by the folks at Access Hollywood.