Olsen may refer to:

• Olsen (surname), people with the surname Olsen
• Fred. Olsen & Co., a large shipping company with worldwide headquarters based in Oslo, Norway

See also[link]

• Olsen Gang, a fictional Danish criminal gang in the movies of the same name
• "Olsen Olsen", a song by post rock band Sigur Rós from their album Ágætis byrjun
• Olson (disambiguation)
• Olsson

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Ashley Olsen
Olsen attending the premiere of The Union at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Ashley Fuller Olsen (1986-06-13) June 13, 1986 (age 26) Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress (1987-2004), fashion designer, producer, author, businesswoman
Years active	1987–present
Height	5'3

Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American actress, fashion designer, producer, author, and businesswoman.

Birth and family[link]

Olsen and her fraternal twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen were born in Sherman Oaks, California to David Olsen^[1] (born 1953) and Jarnette "Jarnie" Fuller (born 1954). Despite being very similar in appearance, they are not identical.^[2][3] They have an older brother, Trent, a little sister, Elizabeth Olsen, and two younger half siblings Taylor and Jake from their father's second marriage.^[4] Mary-Kate and Ashley's parents divorced in 1995.

Child and teen career[link]

Along with Mary-Kate, Olsen was cast at the age of nine months to share the role of Michelle Tanner on the ABC sitcom Full House. The Olsens portrayed Michelle throughout the series' 1987–1995 run. In the early 1990s, the sisters established a company, Dualstar, which produced a long string of TV movies and direct-to-video releases featuring the girls. The Olsens continued to release direct-to-video films up to the early 2000s, along with starring in the 1995 feature film It Takes Two. After Full House, the sisters starred in two other sitcoms (Two of a Kind and So Little Time) and an animated series (Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!), each of which lasted only one season. These ventures, combined with a massive array of licensing deals for their names and likenesses, made the twins phenomenally wealthy at a young age. They became co-presidents of Dualstar upon their eighteenth birthday. Following a second feature film, 2004's New York Minute, Ashley gave up acting because she didn't feel a connection to being an actress anymore.^[5] In 2009 when asked about acting again Ashley said, "Never say never."^[6] Ashley contemplated giving up fashion and going back to acting in 2009.^[7] Ashley changed her mind in 2012 as she and Mary-Kate decided to retire from acting to focus on fashion.^[8] In 2007 Mary-Kate and Ashley expressed an interest in producing movies together.^[9]

Fashion career[link]

As adults, Ashley and Mary-Kate have devoted much of their attention to the world of fashion. They head a couture fashion label, "The Row," as well as the "Elizabeth and James", "Olsenboye", and "StyleMint"^[10] retail collections. Ashley's sometimes controversial fashion choices have often found her on both the best^[11][12] and worst dressed fashion lists, particularly for her decision to wear fur.^[13] Mary-Kate and Ashley designed an Olsenboye Change Purse in 2011 and donated the money to "Pennies From Heaven".^[14] Back in 2011 Mary-Kate and Ashley teamed up with TOMS Shoes to design shoes for kids without shoes.^[15] Mary-Kate and Ashley are now the creative directors for Superga (brand).^[16]

Book[link]

In 2008 Mary-Kate and Ashley wrote a book called "Influence". "Influence" has interviews with fashion designers that have inspired the girls fashion lines.^[17]

Personal life[link]

In 2004, Olsen graduated from Campbell Hall School and began attending New York University with Mary-Kate. Both of them withdrew from NYU the following year, a few months apart, and returned to California.^[18] In 2005, Olsen filed a $40 million libel lawsuit against the National Enquirer over a cover story headlined "Ashley Olsen Caught in Drug Scandal" and featuring an unflattering photo of Olsen. The story described an alleged incident involving Olsen's then-boyfriend, which had occurred before he and Olsen had met.^[19] The Enquirer later apologized in a statement that said it "did not intend to accuse Ms. Olsen of being involved in any drug scandal."^[20]

Further reading[link]

• Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, with Damon Romine. Mary-Kate and Ashley: Our Story: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's Official Biography. HarperEntertainment 2000. ISBN 0-06-107569-8.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ashley Olsen at the Internet Movie Database
• Ashley Olsen at TV.com
• Ashley's Page
• Olsenboye

Elizabeth Olsen
Olsen at the Toronto International Film Festival debut of Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011
Born	Elizabeth Chase Olsen (1989-02-16) February 16, 1989 (age 23) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Tisch School of the Arts
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1993–present
Relatives	Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen and Taylor Olsen (sisters), Trent Olsen and Jake Olsen (brothers)

Elizabeth Chase Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an American actress She is best known for her lead roles in the films Martha Marcy May Marlene and Silent House. Her performance in the former netted her critical acclaim and numerous award nominations.^[1][2][3][4] She is the younger sister of Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, and Trent Olsen, and has two younger half siblings, Taylor Olsen and Jake Olsen.

Early life[link]

Olsen was born in Sherman Oaks, California, the daughter of Jarnette "Jarnie" Fuller (b. 1954), a personal manager, and David Olsen, a real estate developer and mortgage banker.^[5] Olsen graduated from Campbell Hall School in 2007,^[6] and from the Atlantic Theater Company.^[7] She attended the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a child, Olsen took ballet and singing lessons.^[8] She auditioned for Spy Kids.^[9] Elizabeth almost quit acting in 2004 because of the media frenzy surrounding Mary-Kate's eating disorder.^[10] Mary-Kate and Ashley gave their little sister some tips for acting.^[11] In 2010 the girls' dad filed for bankruptcy.^[12]

Career[link]

Olsen began acting when she was 4 and made her film debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene,^[13] an independent film drama about a young woman who comes out of a cult and tries to live a normal life with her sister and brother-in-law. In addition to receiving extensive praise for her performance, Martha Marcy May Marlene marked Olsen's first nude appearance in a film. When asked about the nudity, she said that she felt that it added to the film.^[14] She has also acted in Silent House, in which she played the role of Sarah, and appeared in the music video "The Queen" by Carlotta.^[15] As of mid-2011, she was filming the movie Red Lights, which is due to be released in 2012.^[16] She is set to star in Josh Radnor's new film Liberal Arts, scheduled for release in 2012.^[17] She and Dakota Fanning are set to star in Very Good Girls, planned for a 2013 release.^[18][19]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Elizabeth Olsen at the Internet Movie Database
• Elizabeth Olsen at TV.com
• Elizabeth's Page
• Elizabeth Olsen

Éric Ripert (rih-pair) (born 1965 in Antibes) is a French chef, author and television personality specializing in modern French cuisine and renowned for his work with seafood.^[1]

Ripert's flagship restaurant, Le Bernardin, located in New York City, has been ranked among the best restaurants in the world by culinary magazines and S. Pellegrino's annual "Worlds 50 Best Restaurants" list.^[2][3] It holds the maximum ratings of four stars from The New York Times and three stars from the Michelin Guide. ^[4]

Biography[link]

Eric Ripert was born in France and learned to cook at a young age from his grandmother. When he was young, his family moved to Andorra, where he was raised. He later returned to France and attended culinary school in Perpignan.

Culinary career[link]

At the age of 17 in 1982 he moved to Paris where he worked for two years at La Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant more than 400 years old. Ripert next worked at Jamin under Joël Robuchon and was soon promoted to Assistant Chef de Partie. In 1985 Ripert left to fulfill his military service, after which he returned to Jamin as Chef Poissonier.

In 1989, Ripert moved to the United States and was hired as a sous chef in the Watergate Hotel's Jean Louis Palladin restaurant. He stayed for two years before moving to New York City in 1991 to work for David Bouley. He stayed just under a year so he didn't break contract by being pursued by Gilbert Le Coze at Le Bernardin. In 1994, Ripert became Le Bernardin's executive chef after Gilbert Le Coze died unexpectedly of a heart attack. The following year, at the age of 29, Ripert earned a four-star rating from the New York Times, and in 1996 he became a part-owner. In the Michelin Guide NYC 2006, Ripert's Le Bernardin was one of four New York City restaurants to be awarded the maximum 3 Michelin stars for excellence in cuisine. Le Bernardin received four stars from the New York Times four consecutive times, making it the only restaurant to maintain that exquisite status for that length of time and never dropping a star in ten years. Le Bernardin is often referred to as the Temple of Seafood.

Ripert chairs the City Harvest’s Food Council, and is president of the Jean-Louis Palladin Foundation. He has been a guest chef at the French Embassies in Mexico and Venezuela and for the New York City Ballet.

In November 2007, Ripert opened Westend Bistro at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., offering casual French and American bistro fare. In early 2009, Westend Bistro began serving a family-style Sunday Supper of a starter and entree for $28 per person.^[5] Ripert opened his newest venture in the Ritz Carlton Philadelphia spring 2008. The name of the restaurant, 10 Arts (run by former Le Bernardin Sous Chef and now Chef de cuisine Jennifer Carroll, also a Top Chef contestant), comes from the hotel's address along Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts.

Media career[link]

Ripert has made several guest appearances on cooking-based television shows, including guest judge and assistant chef roles on the second, third, fourth and fifth seasons of Bravo's "Top Chef". Chef Ripert had been considered to join season 8 of Top Chef as a permanent judge, but bowed out when his employee Jen Caroll was selected as a contestant again. He is friends with and has appeared on many episodes of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Most recently he has launched a series of brief online cooking videos called "Get Toasted" on his website AVECERIC.com which focuses on easy and quick meals that can be prepared and cooked in minutes with a toaster oven. In the series he uses a somewhat high end brick-oven based toaster oven produced by Cuisinart. Adding to his adventures, PBS has aired Avec Eric episodes (started September 2009) where he travels the world and finds inspiration and shows the idea in a profession setting, travels on location, and then finally shows the enlightenment in his very own home kitchen. Chef Eric occasionally resides in Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York with his wife, Sondra and son.

Ripert was a featured chef on Great Chefs television.^[6]

In 2010 he played himself in the television show Treme on HBO (season 1 episode 5). He returned in his cameo role in Season 2, in multiple episodes.

Published works[link]

• Le Bernardin Cookbook (co-authored with Maguy Le Coze) (1998), ISBN 0-385-48841-6
• A Return to Cooking (co-authored with Michael Ruhlman) (2002), ISBN 1-57965-187-9
• On the Line: The Stations, the Heat, the Cooks, the Costs, the Chaos, and the Triumphs (co-authored with Christine Muhlke) (November 2008), ISBN 1-57965-369-3
• Avec Eric: A Culinary Journey with Eric Ripert (2010), ISBN 978-0-470-88935-0

Awards[link]

• "Best Restaurant in America" (1997) by GQ
• "Best Food in New York City" (2000–2007) by Zagat
• "Outstanding Restaurant of the Year" (1998) by the James Beard Foundation
• "Top Chef in New York City" (1998) by the James Beard Foundation
• "Outstanding Service Award" (1999) by the James Beard Foundation
• "Outstanding Chef of the Year" (2003) by the James Beard Foundation
• Gayot Top 40 Restaurants in the US: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

Philanthropic activity[link]

Ripert is the chair of City Harvest’s Food Council. In this capacity he works to bring together New York’s top chefs, restaurateurs and others in the food community to assist City Harvest in its mission to raise funds and to increase the quantity and quality of food donations. "City Harvest, a non-profit organization founded in 1982, is the world's first and New York City's only food rescue program. City Harvest exists to end hunger in communities throughout New York City, through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions."

He is president of the Jean-Louis Palladin Foundation which develops programs to increase the understanding and appreciation of high quality ingredients among young chefs and food professionals.

For three years, Ripert has hosted the Tibetan Aid Project's Taste & Tribute New York benefit dinner and auction at his Manhattan restaurant, Le Bernardin. "Funds raised at the annual Taste & Tribute benefit dinners help support efforts to restore Tibetan-language texts to libraries all over the Himalayan region. So far, this project has led to the distribution of nearly two million traditional Buddhist texts—one of the largest free book distributions in history. ^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Profile at Great Chefs
• Personal Blog
• Biography at CuisineNet
• in depth video interview w/ Eric
• Biography at Global Gourmet
• iVillage's Secret Sauce: Eric Ripert's Warm Peekytoe-Maryland Lump "Crab Cake"
• iVillage's Secret Sauce: Eric Ripert's Grilled Trout with Sauce Vierge and Potato and Leek"
• Westend Bistro, Washington, DC
• Chef’s Table: Drinking with Eric Ripert