Profile Name: Mary Kate Olsen
Birth Name: Mary Kate Olsen
Height: 5' 2"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: June 13, 1986
Birth Place: Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Profession: actress
Education: Campbell Hall, North Hollywood, California
New York University (majoring in Cuisine)
Relationship: David Katzenberg (son of producer and Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg; dated in 2003; broke up in 2004; reunited on March 2006), Ali Fatouretchi (entrepreneur)
Father: David Olsen (mortgage banker; born 1953; divorced from Jarnie Olsen February 1996)
Mother: Jarnie Olsen (manager; manages twins' career)
Sister: Elizabeth Olsen (born 1989), Ashley Olsen (actress; twin sister; born on June 13, 1986)
Brother: Trent Olsen (older; born on May 6, 1984)
Claim to fame: as Michelle Elizabeth Tanner on Full House (1987-1995)
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Name: Ashley Olsen
Birth Name: Ashley Fuller Olsen
Height: 5' 3"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: June 13, 1986
Birth Place: Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Profession: actress
Education: Campbell Hall, North Hollywood, California
Enrolled at New York University in Sept. 2004
Relationship: Scott Sartiano (club owner; met in NYC fall 2004 at Sartiano-owned hotspot Butter)
Father: David Olsen (mortgage banker; born in 1953; divorced in February 1996)
Mother: Jarnie Olsen (manager)
Sister: Elizabeth Olsen (born on February 16, 1989), Mary-Kate Olsen (twin sister)
Brother: Trent Olsen (born in 1982)
Claim to fame: as Michelle Elizabeth Tanner on Full House (1987)
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Biography
Born June 13th, 1986, in Sherman Oaks, CA, Mary-Kate Olsen is one-half of the multimillion-dollar franchise known as The Olsen Twins. Long before the pair had unwittingly indoctrinated themselves into the hearts and minds of adoring pre-pubescent girls (and vaguely creepy fraternity boys), however, Mary-Kate and her sister, Ashley Olsen, were simply the youngest members of the long-running sitcom Full House, which hired them just a year after their birth. Because of U.S. child-labor laws, the girls took turns playing Full House's resident cute baby girl, Michelle Tanner. Before long, Mary-Kate and Ashley had their own catchphrase ("You got it, dude"), which reverberated in the ears of Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) and throughout American audiences loudly enough to merit a TVQ rating -- the sitcom world's most prominent popularity contest -- second only to Bill Cosby.
Mary-Kate continued her part-time role as Michelle until Full House came to a close in 1995, though she took time out to film several family-oriented straight-to-video releases, including To Grandmother's House We Go (1992), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), and How the West Was Fun (1994). Luckily for Olsen, the demise of Full House hardly marked the end of her career. Along with her sister, Mary-Kate's success in the family-oriented video market planted the seeds for what would eventually become a multimillion-dollar empire with enough punch to land the twins the 83rd spot in Forbes magazine's list of the world's 100 most powerful celebrities in 2003.
1995 marked Mary-Kate's big-screen debut as the scrappy, orphaned twin sister in It Takes Two, a thinly veiled send-up of The Parent Trap opposite Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg. Olsen also participated in the short-lived 1998 television series Two of a Kind, which, like Full House, followed a widower's efforts to raise his children. This time, however, Mary-Kate and Ashley's identical status served as a gimmick rather than an irksome legal necessity. (The producers of Full House had insisted on crediting the twins as "Mary Kate Ashley Olsen" in an effort to hide their sisterhood.)
By the early 2000s, Mary-Kate had established herself as part of a verifiable marketing gold mine and, oddly enough, the not-quite-legal forbidden fruit of American pop culture. In addition to a juvenile book series, magazine, scads of videos and DVDs, countless talk show appearances, The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley TV series, a clothing line, perfume, and an estimated combined net worth of more than 300-million dollars, the girls also attracted the unwanted attention of hundreds of decidedly less-wholesome Internet sites counting the days until their 18th birthday. The girls deemed this attention, as well as their number 61 ranking in For Him Magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" in 2003 as, simply, "gross." After a bit part in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle that same year, Mary-Kate both co-produced and starred in New York Minute (2004), which follows -- what else? -- a set of identical twins whose attempt at a day in Manhattan lands them in the midst of a high-profile political scandal. Though the girls insist that the only way they want to work is side by side, Mary-Kate does have one distinctive honor: Sans Ashley, she was voted the 20th most-wanted young star by the folks at Access Hollywood. Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Filmography
2004 New York Minute
2004 Saturday Night Live: Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003 The Challenge
2002 When in Rome
2002 Getting There: Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive
2001 So Little Time [TV Series]
2001 Winning London
2001 Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action [Animated Series]
2001 Holiday in the Sun
2000 Our Lips Are Sealed
1999 Passport to Paris
1999 Switching Goals
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Christmas Party
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Campout Party
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Costume Party
1998 Billboard Dad
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Ballet Party
1998 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Mall Party
1998 Two of a Kind [TV Series]
1996 You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Hawaiian Beach Party
1995 It Takes Two
1994 How the West Was Fun
1994 Full House: Season 08
1994 The Little Rascals
1993 Full House: Season 07
1992 Full House: Season 06
1992 To Grandmother's House We Go
1991 Full House: Season 05
1990 Full House: Season 04
1989 Full House: Season 03
1988 Full House: Season 02
1987 Full House: Season 01
1987 Full House [TV Series]
Executive Producer
2001 Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action [Animated Series]
Producer
2004 New York Minute
Olsen Twins Film Awards
* Young Artist Awards: Best Young Actor/Actress - Under Five Years of Age, Full House (1989)
* Young Artist Awards: Outstanding Performance by an Actress Under Nine Years of Age, Full House (1990)
* Young Artist Awards: Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress Under Ten, Full House (1992)
* Young Artist Awards: Best Youth Actress in a TV Mini-Series, M.O.W. or Special, DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE (1994)
* DVD Exclusive Awards: Franchise Performers Award (2003) - shared with Mary-Kate Olsen
Olsen Twins Trivia
* Favorite city: Paris
* Favorite subject: Math
* She wears a size 5 1/2 shoe.
* Favorite foods as kids: Icecream, olives.
* One of Forbes' most powerful celebrities under 25 in 2005.
* Ranked #61 in FHM's '100 Sexiest Women' poll of 2003
* They both returned to TV in their show Two of a Kind.
* Is 2 mins older and and 2 inches taller than Mary-Kate
* Ashley and Mary-Kate's good friend is Hilary Duff
* Ashley and her twin sister Mary-Kate both attend Campbell Hall.
* New York Minute is their most mature, most provocative movie yet.
* They both made their big screen debut in 1995 in the movie It Takes Two.
* At age 6, she and Mary-Kate became the youngest producers in history.
* Has a bi-monthly magazine called Mary-Kate and Ashley Magazine
* Has a line of clothing with sister Mary-Kate that is sold at Wal-Mart
* The Olsens have taken over full control of Dualstar LLC, their billion-dollar media empire after buying out the attorney who helped make them stars. (January 29, 2005)
* Signed the petition for Wal-Mart to give workers the legal right to maternity leave with benefits after they discovered the workers creating their Olsen Twins clothing line - which is sold in Wal-Mart stores - were working in poor conditions. (2004)
* Promotes McDonalds Happy Meals in France just months after Mary-Kate sought treatment for an eating disorder. (September 2004)
* Cancels a trip to Australia for a premiere of New York Minute to be with ailing Mary-Kate. (June 25, 2004)
* Ashley and her twin sister Mary-Kate are the first twins ever to receive a Hollywood sidewalk star. They received the star on April 29, 2004.
* In real life she and Mary-Kate are very close to John Stamos, who played their uncle Jesse on Full House (1987/I).
* On their 17th birthday (June 13, 2003), Cable News Network (CNN) announced not only their birthday but the twins' total financial worth -- $150,000,000 for each. The same news source predicted the twins may be billionaires by the time they're 21.
* She and her sister became the youngest self-made millionaires in American history before they were 10 years old.
