ABOUT –

Olivia Hope Talbott is an LA-based actress, writer, astrologer, activist, and comedian with infinite passion. Olivia’s pronouns are she/her/hers.

That’s me! Hi! I’m Olivia, a proud small town Appalachian girl gone Hollywood, committed actress, Scorpio, detailed communicator, fierce feminist, devout Dolly Parton worshipper, fiery dancer, and relentless worker creating, playing, laughing, and sharing anywhere I can. I’m a poetic writer and voracious consumer and student of people and moments.

Anthony Meindl's Actor's Workshop was my first and longest training home in Los Angeles. I’ve cultivated my best sitcom style acting at The Actor's Comedy Studio. I have performed regular improv with a musical improv group I love, The Moaning Myrtles, as well as some badass all-women improv/sketch with The Pinup Squirrels. I’ve performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade (where I’ve also studied in the Advanced Improv Program), The Improv Space, the Comedy Central Stage, and most often, The Clubhouse.

I’ve waited tables, scrubbed toilets, babysat and assisted to get by. I am grateful to say that I now read astrology charts and teach fitness classes to make side money that fuels my spirit as I pursue my creative ventures. I am an enormously passionate lover of humanity, activist, and leftist, always seeking deeper truths and educating myself so that I may become more conscious and make a positive ripple in the movement towards progress. I am proud to be on the journey of radicalization. My love for women knows no bounds.

I always knew I would move out to California and be an actor. As a little girl I was shy and creative. Little me loved writing horrendous attempts at "deep" poetry (such a Scorpio), filling sketch books with fashion drawings, and disappearing outside with my dog Maggie where I would pick out her ticks and tell her stories of how misunderstood I was. I was raised by an infinitely loving and perfectly affirming, magical single mom. I grew up between two worlds. My father would hear my stories and songs on the weekend and would playfully force me to perform in front of his friends. I hated the attention at first. Quickly it became my favorite feeling to connect a large group of different people in one room through laughter.

I moved out here with $1,800, no family or friends, fresh off a 7-year breakup, knowing one acquaintance and living with strangers. I love the woman I’ve become since then. I plan to love her more with each year. My first week here I met Olivia Wilde and decided it was a sign. Whatever we give meaning has meaning, right?

I love falling in love, my niece and nephew, Rylan & Skylar Tate, Eliza Hittman’s work, independent film, anything Sarah Polley writes, all things mystery and true crime, the mountains, peanut butter pie, sexually owned and unapologetically eccentric characters, Michelle Wolf’s jokes, Bernie Sanders, the community that helped raise me, stealing my best friend’s Tim Tams, and so much more. My scene study teacher once compared me to a female Adam Driver (a fellow Scorpio). I will die one day with it written on a napkin in my hand. One of my best friends once called me the female Lewis Black. You can imagine it, or we can work together. :) You can find me in traffic eating carrots, or anything out of a jar while listening to the pod Bad Faith on a good day, or Old Crow Medicine Show on the bad days.

I work to be creatively fulfilled and spiritually nourished. In equal measure I work to help support other women's dreams and creations, my soul’s greatest work. My dream is to make good work that shifts the way people see the world, acts as a medium between many, and expands class consciousness. Won’t you come along?