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Olivia Munn

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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

-Olivia Munn (net worth: 5-10 million US dollars speculated)

American actress and glamour model Olivia Munn has proved in her  more than a decade long on-screen career that she is a versatile talent, transitioning from a television sexy geek and host/correspondent to a full time actress.

Impressively, her notable movie credentials include hit acts like Big Stan (2007), Date Night (2010), Iron Man 2 (2010), I Don't Know How She Does It (2011), Magic Mike (2012), Deliver Us from Evil (2014), Mortdecai (2015, box office failure), Ride Along 2 (2016), Zoolander 2 (2016)and X-Men: Apocalypse (post production).

Nevertheless, her notable television credentials include Attack of the Show! (co-host2006-2010), Beyond the Break (portrayed Mily Acuna, 2006-2007), The Daily Show (correspondent, 2010- 2011), The Newsroom (portrayed financial reporter Solan Sabbith, 2012-2014), and Miles From Tommorowland (portayed Captain Phoebe Liang in 2015).

Amazingly, she is a journalism major and Japanese and dramatic art minor from the University of Oklahoma and high school graduate from Putnam City North High School.

Interestingly, Olivia as a growing kid never thought that she will be a big actress and more than that she could have never imagined back then that one day she will star in the X-Men franchise as telepathic and telekinetic prowess "Psylocke", who is one of the most decorated villain in the series, opposite stars such as Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac and Michael Fassbender. However, life is not that predicatble you know. Olivia has proven to us that we can achieve unimaginable success if we are dedicated enough in pursuing what we love.

If you aren't aware, Olivia originally started her career journey as an intern at the NBC affiliate in Tulsa. Later, she landed a worthy position of a sideline reporter for college football and women's basketball at FoxSportsNet in 2004 after a brief internship period .Unfortunately, she wasn't impressed by the sideline reporter job. Thus, she moves to Los Angeles after quitting the unfulfilling job to pursue career in acting.  

Although she landed stints in couple of movies, a popular television series and rockband Zebrahead's music video Hello Tommorrow after leaving Fox, her breakout moment came in the year 2006 as the co-host of G4's Attack of the Show, a popular live television American program known for reviewing new technological items; airing parodies, pop culture, general daily news; and giving previews of video games movies and digital media. Olivia got loads of recognition as the co-host of the show despite being a less familiar person when it comes to videogames. But still she was a high-paced learner and good knower of the technology sector. Plus, being a confident, educated and well spoken beauty helped her during her G4 stint as well.

Born on July 3, 1980 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States to Chinese descended mom Kim Schmid and father Winston Munn possessing English, Scottish and German ancestry as the fourth out of five children, Olivia Munn started karate at the age of 5 and continued the-needed had training till the age of 16. In an interview in the past, Olivia has revealed that she and her siblings were ordered to practice karate continuously by their parents until they receive black belt status.

Mother Kim Schmid was born and raised in Vietnam. She is a Vietnam War survivor who fled to Oklahoma after the Vietnam War ended in 1975 and perused her academics there. Kim and Olivia's father Winston Munn married after Kim completed her graduation. Unfortunately, their marriage went through a sad divorce when Olivia was only 2. Soon afterwards, Kim married her second husband who was then stationed on Yokota Air Base near Tachikawa in Tokyo as a member of the United Air force.

Olivia made name for herself even in Japan. She was known as a popular local theatre actress and fashion model in Japan before moving to Oklahoma after her stepfather and mother Kim's divorce.

Now moving on to her physique, she is not a tall woman with the height of 5 feet and 4 inches. However, she is one confident exquisite beauty who possesses magnetic banana shaped body, appreciable curves, distinct unique ethnicity, slim body, shapely round breasts and sound natural bust. More precisely, she possesses fit body measurements of 34-25-35 inches. Nevertheless, she weighs 12 pounds less than previous year still beautiful Olivia. Yes, it's true that she lost around 12 pounds for the X-Men saga.

Personality wise, she identifies herself as a geek. For her being geek is about being crazy about something. Anyway, she says she has a dark sense of humor.

Ironically, Olivia is a fast food junkie who is a fitness freak. She loves staying fit and pursue timely exercises. Nonetheless, she made headlines in early 2016 when the web was flooded with the posts speculating Olivia's possible plastic surgery. What happened was people began to witness change in her facial features including change in shape of her lips and eyes. However, she later cleared to her fans that her facial enhancement was real because of some natural procedures. However, she unwelcomed the idea of plastic surgery. She literally said that she was able to gain ageless looks and facial features because of her timely exercise routine and regular use of Japanese sweet potato rich in Hyaluronic acid. Also, we should thank her hypnotist trainer who hypnotized laidback Olivia to exercise regularly.

Talking about her relationship status, she is happily dating her athletic boyfriend since 2014. If you may, her boyfriend is no other than the Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Charles Rodgers. As far as we know, the couple has no children. Anyway, Olivia is three years older than Aaron.Previously, Olivia has dated Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman ("Robocop"), from 2012 to 2014.

Olivia is one inspiring soul if you know her more. She suffers from OCD and trichotillomania but still she has managed to beat such conditions with well maintained life and excercises. As a child, she has to change places numerous times because of her parents. However, kid Olivia gradually learned to cope with new people and systems.

Learning guns and swords for her roles to going through intense workouts for her roles, Olivia has proved in her long career that she can change impossible to possible.  Interviewing a governor about Co2 emission and acting on The Daily Show as an appealing correspondent to excelling Proactive acne commercials, Olivia has also enjoyed a sound non-actress television career. Nevertheless, she has also bragged some major modeling contract such as Pepsi, Nike and Neutrogina. If that’s not enough, she is someone who has constantly stood up against  animal rights violation.  

No wonder, Maxim ranked her #2 on Maxim's Hot 100 Women List in both 2011 and 2012. Yeah, she has a book to her name called Suck It, Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek (ISBN 0-312-59105-5), which was released in 2010. Amazingly, she made the word "geek" kind of sexy and trendy, identifying herself as a proud geek.

Did you know her Los Angelos located house contain automatic toilets and a 120 life size yoda? No wonder, the star war fan wants to live life in a sound way.Last but not the least, Olivia has been featured in numerous reputed magazines and tabloids. Nonetheless, she has also posed shirtless for PETA in two occasions.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 3 Jul, 1980
Age: 39 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Oklahoma City
residence: Tokyo
Los Angeles
Education: Putnam City North High School
University of Oklahoma
Gender: Female
Description: American actress, comedian, model, television personality and author
Twitter Id: Oliviamunn
Net Worth 2021: 25 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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