Why we love Elizabeth Olsen
It's not easy growing up in the shadow of someone else – it makes it harder to see, they get in the way quite often, and it's difficult to strike up conversations or even sleep with someone standing in between you and the nearest light source at all times. It's slightly less hard, but still fairly tricky, to grow up in the figurative shadow of someone else's career, and Elizabeth Olsen certainly did that.
It's easy to see that Elizabeth Olsen's related to super-wealthy hypertwins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, partially by comparing their surnames and partially by the fact they all look really similar. She didn't take on the mantle of child stardom (presumably because the world had enough Olsen-based cuteness, and later controversy, to handle) and instead stayed fairly quiet until 2011, when she starred in Martha Marcy May Marlene, a film about being in a cult, then not being in a cult, then dealing with all the problems inherent in that.
It is, apparently, very very good. She's no fewer than 10 Best actress awards (or promising performer, or best newcomer or something like that, but they all follow a definite theme in that she's good at acting – it's not like she's doing the lights) for it, and been nominated for 20 more, including the humourously-named Chlotrudis award which sounds like an embarrassing medical condition. But she's in other stuff, too, for 2012 – stuff like Liberal Arts and Red Lights, both of which look pretty good. So she's done pretty well out of her big break, it seems.
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