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50 interesting things about Olivia Munn you have missed.
1. Olivia Munn was born as Lisa Olivia Munn. She was born on July 3, 1980. Munn is an American actress, model, television personality and author.
2. Olivia Munn began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. But since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally.
3. Olivia Munn began her professional career in television journalism before becoming an actress.
4. In 2006, Munn starred as Mily Acuna in the series Beyond the Break.
5. Olivia Munn co-hosted Attack of the Show! from 2006 to 2010.
6. Olivia Munn was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2010 to 2011.
7. Olivia Munn has also had supporting roles in various films and television series since 2004. In 2015, she co-starred in the film Mortdecai, opposite Johnny Depp.
8. Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to her mother, Kim Schmid and father Winston Munn.
9. Olivia Munn's mother Kim Schmid, is of Chinese descent.
10. Olivia Munn's father Winston Munn, is American, of English, Irish, and German ancestry.
11. Her mother Kim Schmid was born and raised in Vietnam and fled to Oklahoma after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. After college, her mother married Winston Munn.
12. When Olivia Munn was age two, her mother married her second husband, a member of the United States Air Force.
13. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in Tokyo, Japan, where the military stationed her stepfather.
14. While growing up in Japan, Olivia Munn appeared in a number of local theater productions and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry.
15. Her mother and stepfather divorced and she moved back to Oklahoma, where she attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years and where she was a contemporary with Hinder bassist Mike Rodden, future Oklahoma state senator David Holt and author Aaron Goldfarb.
16. Olivia Munn attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts.
17. After graduating, she became an intern at the NBC affiliate in Tulsa, and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
18. In 2004, Munn interned at Fox Sports Net and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and women's basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining "I Zas trying to be something I wasn't, and that made me really uncomfortable on live TV."
19. Soon after she moved to Los Angeles, Munn was cast in a small role in the straight to video horror film Scarecrow Gone Wild.
20. She appeared in rock band Zebrahead's video for their song "Hello Tomorrow" as the love interest of the lead singer Justin Mauriello.
21. Olivia Munn also appeared in National Lampoon's Strip Poker, which was filmed at the Hedonism II nudist resort in Negril, Jamaica, with Kato Kaelin. The films aired on DirecTV and InDemand Pay Per View.
22. In late 2005, Munn began her role as Mily Acuna, a teen surfer, over two seasons of the TV drama Beyond the Break on The N network.
23. Olivia Munn enjoys surfing and continues to practice the sport.
24. Olivia Munn originally auditioned for the part of Kai, but the producers wanted a "local girl". She also appeared in the film The Road to Canyon Lake.
25. In 2006, Munn moved on to the G4 network, where she began co-hosting Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira on April 10. She replaced departing host Sarah Lane.
26. G4 network, the network, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle, was at first hesitant to hire Munn. Although she admits video games were her "weak point", she was confident in her technical knowledge. On the show, Munn was featured with journalist Anna David in a segment called "In Your Pants", which deals with sex and relationship questions from viewers.
27. While working on Attack of the Show!, Munn hosted Formula D, a now defunct program about American drift racing, and an online podcast called Around the Net (formerly known as The Daily Nut), for G4.
28. Olivia Munn left Attack of the Show! in December 2010 and was replaced by Candace Bailey.
29. Olivia Munn had roles in the films Date Night (2010) and Iron Man 2 (2010). Robert Downey, Jr. praised Munn for her improvisation skills and led the crew in a round of applause.
30. Olivia Munn hosted Microsoft's Bing-a-thon, an advertisement on Hulu for the Microsoft search-engine Bing, on June 8, 2009, alongside Jason Sudeikis.
31. In May 2010, NBC announced that Munn would star in the upcoming television series Perfect Couples. The half-hour romantic comedy premiered on January 20, 2011. The show was cancelled before it completed its first season run.
32. On June 3, 2010, Munn debuted in her new role as a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Her hiring prompted criticism from Irin Carmon of Jezebel, who questioned Munn's credentials and accused the show's production of sexism in hiring Munn, whom Carmon characterized as a sex symbol. Carmon saw Munn's hiring as a perpetuation of the show production office's history as a male-dominated atmosphere marginalizing and alienating to women. A group of thirty-two female Daily Show production staff members condemned Carmon's piece as inaccurate and misinformed, as did Munn herself in an interview, in which she stated that Carmon's assertion was an insult both to her and to the rest of the Daily Show staff. She went on to appear in 16 more episodes, the last coming on September 2, 2011.
33. Olivia Munn served as a correspondent in "True Colors", the May 12, 2014 episode of the Showtime documentary TV series Years of Living Dangerously, in which she interviewed Washington State Governor Jay Inslee about his efforts to reduce CO2 emissions in his home state.
34. As of June 2014 Munn has been hired as the main promoter of Proactive acne cleanser products starring in several commercials and one informercial for the product. The commercials show Munn experiencing acne herself.
35. In January 2015, Munn began voicing the character of Phoebe Callisto in the Disney Junior series Miles from Tomorrowland.
36. Olivia has booked modeling campaigns for Nike, Pepsi, and Neutrogena.
37. Olivia Munn appeared on the Fall 2006 cover of Foam magazine in September, in Men's Edge magazine in August, and was featured in a pictorial in Complex in November 2006, where she later became a columnist.
38. Olivia Munn wrote a book! Munn's book Suck It, Wonder Woman: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek (ISBN 0-312-59105-5) was released on July 6, 2010. One critic said it offers glimpses into Munn's life but does not go into depth.
39. In 2011, Munn teamed up with Dosomething.org's Green Your School Challenge. She was a spokesperson for the campaign by filming a PSA regarding the challenge, and sat on the panel of judges that evaluated the entries.
40. Olivia Munn helped PETA with a campaign that ultimately freed a sick elephant from a touring circus. Her blog for The Huffington Post[37] was credited with encouraging fans to contact the USDA on the elephant's behalf.
41. Olivia Munn posed for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign in April 2010, and again in January 2012.
42. In February 2013, Munn fronted a PETA release of new footage showing cruelty to animals in Chinese fur farms.
43. Olivia Munn resides in both Los Angeles and New York City.
44. She is currently dating Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
45. In regard to her faith and work in Deliver Us from Evil, Munn has stated that "I didn't believe in the supernatural before this movie"; however, the viewing of actual footage from the New York Police Department of real-life exorcisms changed the actress' mind, and she has stated that "I'm a full believer [now]."
46. Olivia Munn speaks fluent Japanese.
47. She once dislocated her shoulder when her indoor swing disconnected from the ceiling and crashed to the floor.
48. Her favorite musician is Brad Paisley. She also likes to listen to Tupac.
49. Munn's favorite movie is "A Woman Under the Influence."
50. Olivia Munn's favorite video game is Halo.
Source: Wikipedia.org
