Olivia DeJonge is an Australian actress. On television, she is known for her roles in the ABC1 series Hiding (2015) and the Netflix series The Society (2019), and films include The Visit (2015), Better Watch Out (2016), and Elvis (2022). For portraying Priscilla Presley in the latter, she won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
DeJonge was born on 30 April 1998 in Melbourne, Victoria, the elder of two children of Robyn (née Gradisen) and Rob DeJonge. Her parents are investors in the property and IT sectors. She spent her early years in Rochester Terrace, a heritage-listed townhouse in St Vincent Place, Albert Park.
In October 2003 she moved to Perth, Western Australia with her parents at the age of five, where she was enrolled in up in the Presbyterian Ladies' College, and lived in Peppermint Grove, in the same suburb of Perth as the school.
When she was just eight, she was employed to do a radio voiceover for a well-known chain of hardware stores, which led to many further radio advertisements over her career. In 2010 DeJonge played the lead role in Maziar Lahooti's short film Good Pretender, for which she won Best Actress in the 24th Western Australian Screen Awards in 2010.
In 2014, DeJonge made her feature film debut in the film The Sisterhood of Night; she starred along with Georgie Henley, Kara Hayward, and Kal Penn. Caryn Waechter directed the film, which was released on 10 April 2015, after getting a premiere in October 2014.
In 2015, DeJonge appeared in the Australian ABC's television drama series Hiding, on which she played one of the lead roles as Tara Swift / Shaneen Quigg. She played the co-lead role of Becca in the horror film The Visit, along with Ed Oxenbould. M. Night Shyamalan directed the film, which had its premiere on 31 August 2015, and was released on 11 September 2015 by Universal Pictures. In 2017, DeJonge starred as Alice Burbage in the TNT series, Will.
DeJonge played Priscilla Presley in Baz Luhrmann's 2022 Elvis Presley biopic Elvis. She drew praise from critics, who applauded her ability to match co-star Austin Butler's charisma. She won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for this role.
Date of Birth | 30th April 1998 |
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Age | 26 Years |
Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
Country | Australia |
Current City | Melbourne |
Birth Place | Melbourne |
Nationality | Australia |
Citizenship | Australia |
Occupation | actor, film actor |
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