Olivia Cooke

Olivia Cooke starring alongside Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga, in the acclaimed television series Bates Motel, which airs its second season beginning in March 2014. Ms. Cooke was born in Manchester, in the North of England. Upon graduating from the Oldham Theatre School, she landed a key role in Blackout, a BBC miniseries directed by Tom Green in which she starred alongside Christopher Eccleston, Dervla Kirwan, and Lyndsey Marshal. She then took the lead role in another BBC miniseries, the 1940s-set The Secret of Crickley Hall, directed by Joe Ahearne. Ms. Cooke was filming the lead role in Ouija, a horror film based on the board game, for director Stiles White. She can be seen starring opposite Sam Claflin and Jared Harris in Hammer Films' The Quiet Ones, directed by John Pogue.

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