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Here you can read the full Bio’s on both Mary-Kate and Ashley, plus the background on the girls in their early days. The whole Biography is taken in part from Wikipedia and edited by me.
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) are American actresses, best known for playing the role of Michelle Tanner on the sitcom Full House. Both have appeared in television and films since infancy. Since then, they have continued their celebrity through numerous television programs, films, interviews, as well as commercial endorsements. The girls were born in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen (b. 1953) and Jarnette (Jarnie) Fuller (b. 1954) in 1986. Mary-Kate and Ashley Fuller Olsen started their acting careers on the television series Full House in 1987. They were hired at the age of six months and filming began when they were nine months old. The show was widely popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both sisters played the same character, Michelle Tanner, taking turns during the tapings to do so, in order to comply with strict child labor laws regarding child actors. For the first year, Ashley would cry when she was brought on set to do a scene, so Mary-Kate had more screen time in the first season. Because the producers did not want viewers to know that Michelle was played by twins, the sisters were originally credited as “Mary Kate Ashley Olsen”, but in the last season and most of season one, they were credited as separate people. During the eight year run, Mary-Kate and Ashley made several direct-to-video movies, in addition to Full House, such as To Grandmother’s House We Go (1992). In 1995, following Full House, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen released a string of successful straight-to-video movies and became popular figures in the preteen market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Their names became a cottage industry, with their likeness seen in clothes, books, fragrances, magazines, movies and posters. There were even fashion dolls made by Mattel from 2000-2005. They starred in the video series The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, the ABC show Two of a Kind, and ABC Family’s So Little Time, for which Mary-Kate received a nomination for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Series at the 2002 Daytime Emmy Awards.
Mary-Kate Olsen is a Daytime Emmy Award-nominated American actress, producer, fashion model and fashion designer. Since 2006, she has appeared in movie roles independently of her sister. Seeking to establish independent identities for herself and her sister, Mary-Kate has asked the public and the media to refer to them not as “the Olsen twins” but as Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen respectively. Subsequently, Mary-Kate’s first solo acting appearance was in the movie Factory Girl, released in December 2006. In addition, she has had a recurring role on Showtime’s Weeds as Tara Lindman, a devout Christian who believes it is OK to smoke marijuana, because it grows from the earth. She appears in the 2008 film The Wackness as Union. At the Sundance Film Festival, co-star and Academy Award-winner Sir Ben Kingsley praised her by saying “Mary-Kate’s portrayal of this girl is perfect, she’s hysterical. She’s a pro. It makes sense. She’s been in this business a lot longer than I have.” Personal Life Mary-Kate has also had her fair share of bad press, firstly when rumours circulated that MK was losing weight rapidly. It was then that Mary-Kate announced that she had indeed been suffering with the terrible condition ‘Anorexia Nervosa’. More recently she has found herself caught up in the events surrounding Heath Ledger’s death earlier this year, due to a phone call made to Mary-Kate at the time.
Fashion Designer Starting as young girls, they have a clothing line in Wal-Mart stores across America for girls ages 4-14 as well as a beauty line called “Mary-Kate and Ashley: Real fashion for real girls”. In 2004 they made news by signing a pledge to allow all the workers that sew their line of clothing in Bangladesh full maternity leave. The National Labor Committee, which organized the pledge, later praised the twins for their commitment to worker rights. The director of the organization, Charles Kernaghan, is quoted as saying, “The Olsen twins have done the right thing. Now it is up to Wal-Mart to either support Mary-Kate and Ashley’s commitment to women’s rights, or tragically to shut them down.” However their collaboration with Wal-Mart tarnished their fashionable reputations amongst the fashion industry until they were tapped as the faces of upscale fashion line Badgley Mischka in 2006, in an attempt to gain credibility in the fashion industry after their association with Wal-Mart. In a more matured fashion project, Ashley and her sister have released The Row, a high-end fashion line inspired by London’s Savile Row, the line a direct reflection of their own popular personal style. The line features shirts and tank tops selling for hundreds of dollars each. The clothing is sold at high-end retailers such as Barneys, Maxfield, Harvey Nichols, Brown’s, and others around the world. Ashley and Mary-Kate continued their expansion in the fashion industry with the Fall ‘07 launch of Elizabeth & James, their contemporary collection inspired by many of their unique vintage finds and pieces in their personal wardrobes. Ashley dated a Columbia University quarterback, Matt Kaplan, from February 2001 – May 2004. Since then, she has been linked to restaurateur Scott Sartiano, actor/singer Jared Leto, businessman Greg Chait and cyclist Lance Armstrong. Currently, Ashley is rumored to be dating actor Justin Bartha after the two have been spotted out and about together since May 2008. Interesting Facts Did you know that…? Mary-Kate… - wants to open her own restaurant in the future Did you know that…? Ashley… … - wants to continue acting in indie movies, preferably drama |
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Mary-Kate & Ashley – All you need to know
The Early Years
Mary-Kate
Ashley