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Alison Oliver
Irish actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alison Oliver is an Irish actress. She is known for her debut role as Frances in the BBC Three and Hulu miniseries Conversations with Friends (2022),[1][2] and she was named in Variety's "10 actors to watch" in 2023.[3]
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Early life and education
Alison Oliver was born in Ballintemple, Cork before moving to Blackrock when she was young. Her mother is a social worker and her father worked in the motor trade. She attended Scoil Mhuire, a private school in Cork, and took drama, singing and dancing lessons at The Performer's Academy and the Cork School of Dance. She applied to Trinity College Dublin's drama school The Lir Academy, but was invited to take a year-long foundation course in Acting and Theatre first. She auditioned again after completing the course,[1][4] going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in acting in 2020.[5]
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Career
Oliver landed her debut television role as Frances Flynn in Conversations with Friends, a miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney's 2017 debut novel of the same name developed by Element Pictures for BBC Three and Hulu. She received the news that she had been cast in Conversations with Friends the morning after graduating from drama school.[6] In 2023, she appeared in the BBC One drama miniseries Best Interests.[7]
She made her London stage debut in Women, Beware the Devil at the Almeida Theatre in February 2023,[8] and in April 2023 starred in Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre.
Oliver made her feature film debut in Saltburn, written and directed by Emerald Fennell.[9] The film premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival and went on to be nominated for two Golden Globes and five BAFTA Film Awards. In 2024, she played a supporting role in Justin Kurzel's film The Order, which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. In November 2024, it was announced that she had been cast as Isabella Linton in Fennell’s next film, Wuthering Heights, an adaptation of the novel of the same name.[10]
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Personal life
She is a vegetarian.[11] In 2022, she was in a relationship with Irish actor Éanna Hardwicke.[12] As of 2025, she is dating English actor Josh O'Connor.[13]
Acting credits
Film
Television
Theatre
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References
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