Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn
Munn at Paley Fest, March 2013
Born	Lisa Olivia Munn (1980-07-03) July 3, 1980 (age 36) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2004–present

Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress and model. She was credited as Lisa Munn in her early career, but since 2006, she has used the name Olivia Munn.

Munn began her professional career in television journalism before becoming an actress. In 2006, Munn starred as Mily Acuna on the series Beyond the Break. She co-hosted Attack of the Show! from 2006 to 2010 and was a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2010 to 2011. Munn has also had supporting roles in various films and television series since 2004. She played the character Sloan Sabbith on the television series The Newsroom from 2012 to 2014 and appeared in the sequel film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as Psylocke.

Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her mother, Kimberly Schmid, was born and raised in Vietnam, and is of Chinese descent. Her father, Winston Barrett Munn, is an American of English, Irish and German descent. Her mother was a Vietnamese refugee and fled to Oklahoma after the Vietnam War, in 1975. After college, her mother married Winston. When Munn was two years old, her mother remarried to a member of the United States Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised on Yokota Air Base near Tachikawa in Tokyo, Japan, where her stepfather was stationed. During this time, she appeared in a number of local theater productions and later became a model in the Japanese fashion industry.

Her mother and stepfather divorced, and she moved back to Oklahoma, where she attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years.

Munn attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts.