Olivia Cooke Parents: Meet Lindsy Wild and John Cooke

Olivia Cooke is an English actress. Olivia Cooke was born on December 27, 1993, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, to a non-actor family.

Lindsy Wild, her mother, is a sales representative, and her father, John Cooke, is a retired police officer.

Olivia’s parents divorced when she was very young, and she moved in with her mother and sister, Eleanor.

Olivia Cooke began acting at the age of eight at the Oldham Theatre Workshop, an after-school drama programme in her hometown.

Olivia Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Academy and Oldham Sixth Form College, where she studied drama before leaving before the end of her A-levels to appear in the drama series Blackout.

Olivia Cooke is best known for her roles as Emma Decody in A&E’s drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017) and Becky Sharp in the period drama miniseries Vanity Fair (2018).

Olivia Cooke also appeared in Ouija (2014), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Limehouse Golem (2016), Thoroughbreds (2017), Ready Player One (2018), and Sound of Metal (2020).