Birthdate: Apr 30, 1998
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
At 24, Australian actor Olivia DeJonge already has a distinguished 11-year-old career in film and television, having begun her career by scoring a nomination for the Australian Film/TV Academy’s best young actor award with the short, Good Pretender (2011).
DeJonge was part of the ensemble of the contemporary take on the Salem Witch Trials, Sisterhood of the Night (2015), with Georgie Henley, Kara Hayward, and Willa Cuthrell. DeJonge joined the cast, including Kathryn Hahn and Ed Oxenbould, of M. Night Shyamalan’s horror-comedy for Universal, The Visit (2015), and continued her run in the horror genre with Scare Campaign (2016) and Better Watch Out (2016).
More adult roles came her way with the psychological thriller, Undertow (2018); the crime drama Stray Dolls (2019) with Cynthia Nixon and Geetanjali Thapa; and the family drama Josie & Jack (2019) with William Fichtner. Olivia DeJonge was part of the high-profile ensemble, including Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Sophie Turner, and Michael Stuhlbarg, of HBO’s true-crime limited series, The Staircase (2022). DeJonge portrays Priscilla Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s ambitious biopic, Elvis (2022) with Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.
Olivia DeJonge was born in Melbourne, Australia but grew up in Perth in far western Australia, where her parents Robyn and Rob moved with DeJonge and her younger sibling in 2003. She attended Presbyterian Ladies College in Perth. Her height is 5’ 3”.
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Radio, Radio: Olivia DeJonge’s first performing work was at age 8, doing radio voiceover for hardware commercials on local Perth radio. She soon recorded over four dozen radio commercials.