Elizabeth Olsen
Though the excellent cult thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene is widely considered her debut, her first two films actually premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on the same day — January 21, 2011. While some might call Martha Marcy May Marlene a drama, and others might call it a horror film, there’s no question that her other Sundance premiere that year — Silent House, above — was in the horror genre.
Olsen, who started out acting at the age of four — notably in her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley’s projects — quickly caught fire in Hollywood for her grown-up film work, and scored high-profile jobs in films including Spike Lee’s 2013 Oldboy remake. But she’s of course best known for the role of Wanda Maximoff, aka The Scarlet Witch, which she has played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
She recently reprised the role in Disney+’s WandaVision and in last year’s Doctor Strange the Multiverse of Madness.
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