Olivia Cooke

Olivia Kate Cooke (born 27 December 1993) is an English actress. From 2013 to 2017, she co-starred as Emma Decody in the A&E drama-thriller television series Bates Motel. In 2014, Cooke starred in the thriller films The Quiet Ones and Ouija. Cooke has appeared three times in the Sundance Film Festival, at the 2014 festival in William Eubank's science fiction film The Signal, at the 2015 festival in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's comedy-drama Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which was awarded both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, and again at the 2017 festival in Cory Finley's Thoroughbred. Cooke is slated to star in the upcoming 2018 science fiction film Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg. 2Early life Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Her father, John Cooke, is a retired police officer, and her mother, Lindsy (née Wild), is a sales representative. She has a younger sister, Eleanor. When Cooke was a child, her parents divorced, and she and her younger sister lived with their mother. Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Secondary School and studied drama at Oldham Sixth Form College, leaving before the end of her A-levels to star in Blackou