Olivia Burnette began her acting career at the tender age of 6. The
most notable of her first acting jobs was in Ein Ticket für zwei (1987) opposite comic
superstar Steve Martin.
After several television appearances, Olivia was cast as the lead in
the down-home series Alle meine Kinder (1991), playing Dorothy Jane.
Olivia continued her television career with a few television movies,
before being cast in Schneller als der Tod (1995), which allowed her to work with such
actors as Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone and Russell Crowe.
Olivia continued her work on the big screen in Auge um Auge (1996) with director
John Schlesinger, and got the opportunity to play Sally Field's daughter as well as
be brutalized in a controversial scene by Kiefer Sutherland.
Determined to obtain a college degree, Olivia left Los Angeles to
attend the prestigious NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. She graduated
with not one but two majors: Film and English. After school, she was
inspired to buy the rights to a novel and adapted it into a screenplay,
which is currently being shopped.
Most recently, Olivia has been seen in the hit television show CSI: New York (2004)
along with Oscar nominated Gary Sinise and Emmy nominated Melina Kanakaredes, and in
the naval drama Navy CIS (2003) with Mark Harmon.
Her most recent feature film entitled Flourish (2006), which also stars Jennifer Morrison
and Jesse Spencer from the hit Fox drama Dr. House (2004), premiered at the world
renowned Cinequest Film Festival 2006, as well being screened at the
Cannes Film Market in 2006.
She currently resides in Southern California with her husband,
singer/songwriter/producer Julian Sakata, and her five year old stepson,
Rain.
