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Byline: DAVID DeNICOLO
The middle child of a family of elite journalists, Olivia Wilde, nA[c]e Cockburn, trod a privileged path though Georgetown Day School and Andover. That's where the predictable stops. She attended the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Colin Farrell's alma mater. She eloped with the son of an Italian prince, moved to Hollywood, and began to audition. After roles on The O.C. and The Black Donnellys , she's now, at 24, a regular on the Fox series House , and is shopping around a movie, Fix , that she made with her husband, Tao Ruspoli.
You changed your name to Wilde. Is that a stage name or a legal change? It was sort of a hassle to have three aliases. The bank started thinking I was a spy. My legal name is my husband's name, and I use Olivia Wilde for work.
Do your parents [political correspondents Andrew and Leslie Cockburn] sometimes shake their heads at your Hollywood aspirations? Uhhh, no. They have been ...