OLIVIA MUNN

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MARCH ———^4// Is VANITIE S ... Not hi ng Is Fa i r 2012

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PROVENANCE: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, AGE: 31. A LONG WAY TO TOKYO: After her mother married an air-force pilot, Munn spent eight years of her childhood living on military bases in Japan, before returning to Oklahoma at the age of 16. AND A BUMPY ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD: "I packed up my 1996 Land Rover Discovery and drove out to L.A. It broke down every 100 miles," Munn remembers, ACTING BY THE BOOK: "I had a book, An Actor's Guide: Your First Year in Hollywood— I'm not even kidding—and I took this book and I read it and I highlighted it, like What do I do?" soWHAT DID SHE DO? "I worked every single day—I went out for everything, auditions that I knew I would never get. I exposed myself to rejection every day." Now all that hard work seems to have paid off—with a gig as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and roles in Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming series, The Newsroom, as well as Steven Soderbergh's movie Magic Mike,HOW DOES IT FEEL? "Like gold dropping from the sky. I want to pinch myself every day because I can't believe I get to work with these people."

KRISTA SMITH