At the tender age of 20, Manchester born Olivia Cooke is already making major waves in the US and the UK.

After starring in British miniseries Blackout and The Secret of Crickley Hall in 2012 the actress scored her first big break Stateside playing series regular Emma Decody in the Universal hit Bates Motel. Film roles soon followed and this year Cooke has three big pictures set for release; on British shores she'll next be seen in the Hammer horror The Quiet Ones alongside Sam Claflin, while American audiences will see her in Ouija (Michael Bay's action adventure, due to be released in the autumn) and The Signal, which she stars in opposite Laurence Fishburne.

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