Olivia Munn Trivia | 55 facts about the actress

Olivia Munn is an American actress. She made headlines again when she openly talked about her battle with cancer.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career.

1. Her full name is Lisa Olivia Munn
2. She was born July 3, 1980
3. Olivia Munn is an American actress
4. After an internship at a news station in Tulsa
5. She moved to Los Angeles
6. There she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4
7. Primarily on the series Attack of the Show! from 2006 until 2010
8. Munn appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2010 to 2011
9. She is known for her three-season-long portrayal of Sloan Sabbith in Aaron Sorkin’s HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014)
10. Munn’s other acting roles include a recurring role on the television series Beyond the Break (2006—2009)
11. And supporting roles in comedy films Big Stan (2007) and Date Night (2010) and Steven Soderbergh’s comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012)
12. She starred in the supernatural horror film Deliver Us from Evil (2014), the comedy Mortdecai (2015), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as Psylocke
13. In 2017, Munn provided the voice of Koko in The Lego Ninjago Movie
14. She had appeared in the History Channel series Six (2017)
15. In 2018, she had a leading role in the science fiction film The Predator, the fourth film in the Predator franchise
16. Lisa Olivia Munn was born on July 3, 1980, in Oklahoma City
17. Her parents are Kimberly Schmid and Winston Munn
18. Her father is of German, Irish, and English ancestry
19. Her mother, who is a Vietnamese woman of Chinese ancestry, arrived as a refugee in the United States in 1975 following the Vietnam War and settled in Oklahoma
20. There she met Munn’s father
21. Munn has two brothers and two sisters
22. When Munn was two years old, her parents divorced
23. Her mother married a member of the United States Air Force
24. The family relocated to Utah, where they resided until 1986
25. Munn’s stepfather was then transferred to Yokota Air Base near Tachikawa in Tokyo, Japan, where she spent her formative years
26. She has said that her stepfather was “verbally abusive” and demeaning
27. When Munn was 16, her mother divorced her stepfather
28. She moved with the children back to Oklahoma City
29. Munn attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years
30. Then attended the University of Oklahoma
31. There she earned a B.A. in journalism with a minor in Japanese and dramatic arts
32. In 2011, Munn teamed up with Dosomething.org’s Green Your School Challenge
33. She was a spokesperson for the campaign by filming a PSA regarding the challenge
34. Olivia Munn sat on the panel of judges that evaluated the entries
35. Munn helped PETA with a campaign that ultimately freed an ill elephant from a touring circus
36. Her blog for The Huffington Post was credited with encouraging fans to contact the USDA on the elephant’s behalf
37. Munn posed for PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign in April 2010
38. And again in January 2012
39. In February 2013, Munn fronted a PETA release of new footage showing cruelty to animals in Chinese fur farms
40. She appears in the 2021 short film Save Ralph, a film by Humane Society International about animal testing
41. Munn has used her platform to speak out against anti-Asian sentiments, harassment, and assaults following the COVID-19 pandemic
42. Munn was part of a roundtable discussion alongside Stop AAPI Hate co-founder Russell Jeung, RISE founder and CEO Amanda Nguyen with CBS News entitled “Asian Americans Battling Bias: Continuing Crisis”
43. In regard to the subject matter in Deliver Us from Evil, Munn has said that “I didn’t believe in the supernatural before this movie”
44. However, after viewing footage from the New York City Police Department of alleged real-life exorcisms, she said “I’m a full believer [now]”
45. She is a black belt in taekwondo
46. In November 2017, Munn accused film director Brett Ratner of repeated instances of sexual harassment, as well as an instance of sexual assault
47. She has supported the Me Too and Time’s Up movements with both personal efforts and public statements
48. From 2014 to 2017, Munn was in a relationship with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers
49. In 2021, she began dating comedian John Mulaney
50. In September of that year, the pair announced that Munn was pregnant
51. Their son, Malcolm Hiệp Mulaney, was born on November 24, 2021
52. Their son’s middle name is in honor of Munn’s Chinese-Vietnamese cultural background
53. In March 2024, Munn revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer the previous year
54. Munn announced that she had four surgeries in the previous ten months, including a double mastectomy
55. Munn described the cancer as “aggressive” and “fast moving”, but was caught with “enough time that I had options”