Eric Christian Olsen was born on May 31, 1977 in Eugene, Oregon, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), Fired Up! (2009) and Cellular (2004). He has been married to Sarah Wright since June 23, 2012. They have three children.
Eric Christian Olsen
Movies
Heroine
Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to “re-live” the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead. She uses…
Fun Facts
Was a highly regarded hockey player in high school and a pre-med student at Pepperdine University.
Grew up in Bettendorf, Iowa.
His senior year (1995), he was a staff writer for the Bettendorf High School's monthly newspaper, "The Growl.""
His first acting job was in a Whitey's ice cream parlor TV commercial.
He had a principal role in nearly every high school play and musical for 4 years and even some of the high school plays when he was in elementary school.
Has an older brother
Quotes
I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.