Biography of the popular Movie Actress Mary Kate Olsen

Mary Kate Olsen born on June 13th, 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California is a beautiful American actress best known as 'Michelle Tanner' on the ABC's most popular sitcom "Full House".

Mary Kate Olsen was born to Jarnette Fuller and David Olsen. Mary Kate Olsen has a twin sister named Ashley Fuller Olsen, an older brother Trent, younger sister Elizabeth. Mary Kate also has two-half brothers Taylor and Jake both from her father's second marriage to Martha Mackenzie. Mary Kate's parents were divorced in 1995.

Mary Kate Olsen along with her twin sister Ashley Olsen began their acting debut at the age of ten months. They first appeared on ABC's famous sitcom "Full House" {174 episodes: 1987-1995}. Both the sisters played the same character of 'Michelle Elizabeth Tanner' in turns due to restrictions by the child labor laws regarding child actors. Mary Kate has more screen time than her twin sister Ashley Olsen.

Both the sisters literally grew on "Full House" as it ran for over nine years. While appearing on "Full House", Mary Kate Olsen along with her sister Ashley Olsen has acted in several single episode dramas and made-for-television movies like "ABC TGIF" {TV series : 1990}, "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" {1992}, and made-for-television movies like "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" {1993}, "To Grandmother's House We Go" {1992}, "How the West Was Fun" {1994}, and "It Takes Two" {1995}. After "Full House" both the sisters Mary Kate and Ashley have again come together in "Two of a Kind" {22 episodes: 1998-1999} and "Two of a Kind" {22 episodes: 1998-1999}, "Mary Kate and Ashley in Action!" {3 episodes: 2001-2002}.

It was in 2006 Mary Kate made her solo debut in movies without Ashley Olsen with "Factory Girl" {2006}. She also had a solo starring role 'Tara Lindman' in the third season of "Weeds" in eight of its episodes in 2007. Mary Kate in 2007 has starred alongside Ben Kingsley in the "Wackness" in 2008.

The success of "Full House" made both the sisters, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, the celebrated child-stars, which in turn brought them more television shows, films and commercial endorsements. The duo established a company called Dualstar in 1993 and began selling their brand of goods across an over 3000 stores in America and over 5300 stores worldwide. The goods they sold are beauty products, lifestyle clothing essential furniture, home-decor accessories and fashion dolls made by Mattel. They were equally successful in their business enterprise and Forbes ranked them together as the eleventh richest women in entertainment with a net worth of $100 million in 2007. Their trendsetting style in fashion is known as 'Ashcan' or 'Boho-chic'. Boho-chic' is quite similar to Bohemian chic created by Kate Moss and Sienna Miller in Britain. Mary Kate and Ashley's fashion trends consisted of oversized sunglasses, loose sweaters, boots, and flowing skirts aesthetically mixing hi-end fashion choices.

Mary Kate & Ashley sisters, who outsource their sewing jobs in Bangladesh, have decided to give full maternity leave to their women sewing staff in Bangladesh. The sisters have also launched their own fashion label 'The Row' named after their famous Savile Row of London; and further created 'Elizabeth & James brand for their brand 'The Row'.

Mary Kate Olsen has had romantic links with several celebrities like Eric Jungmann from 2000 to 2001; Maz Winkler from 2002 to 2004; Ali Fatourechi in 2004; David Katzenberg from 2004 to 2005; Stavros Niarchos III in 2005; Ronnie Vannucci in 2006; Richie Akiva in 2005 to 2006; Max Snog in 2006 to 07; Heath Ledger in 2007 to 08; Travis McCoy and Lapo Elkann in 2008.