50 Fun Facts About Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Which Full House character did Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen take turns playing from the age of nine months?

Michelle Tanner was credited to a single 'Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen' for most of the run, because producers did not want viewers to know twins shared the part.

Elizabeth Olsen, the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, is known worldwide for playing which Marvel superhero?

Scarlet Witch brought her worldwide recognition from 2014, two decades after she began acting at age four with small parts in her big sisters' projects.

The Olsen twins named their luxury label The Row after which London street, famed for men's bespoke tailoring?

Savile Row lent its name to a label the twins at first kept their own names off, giving no interview about it for its first three years.

Mary-Kate Olsen was married from 2015 to 2021 to a banker who is the half-brother of which French president?

Nicolas Sarkozy officiated at his half-brother Olivier's first wedding while serving as a mayor; Olivier and Mary-Kate married at a private home in New York in 2015.

Which 1995 comedy with Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg was the first cinema film to star Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen?

It Takes Two cast the twins as an orphan and an heiress who swap places at summer camp, and its title comes from a Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston duet.

Which 2004 comedy, with Eugene Levy as a truant officer, was the last film Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made together?

New York Minute also slipped in a wordless cameo by Bob Saget, their Full House father, and was the last film their own company produced before turning to fashion.

Which future star made her acting debut as a spoiled heiress opposite the Olsen twins in Holiday in the Sun?

Megan Fox played Brianna Wallace, the rich rival of Ashley's character, six years before Transformers made her a household name.

Which streaming service made the Full House sequel that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were the only original stars to skip?

Netflix wrote the absence into Fuller House by saying the youngest daughter was busy running a fashion business in New York, just as the twins were.

Although they shared one Full House role for eight seasons, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are which kind of twins?

Fraternal twins, they still looked so alike that few viewers could tell them apart, and in season one Mary-Kate filmed more because Ashley got upset on set.

To Grandmother's House We Go, the Olsen twins' first film as separate characters, is set around which holiday?

Christmas frames the 1992 ABC film, even though its title is borrowed from the opening of a Thanksgiving song by Lydia Maria Child.

The Row grew out of Ashley Olsen's 2005 challenge to herself to design the perfect version of which garment?

A T-shirt, tested on women of every shape and age, led by 2006 to a seven-piece first collection; Ashley is the elder twin by two minutes.

Mary-Kate Olsen has competed at the Hampton Classic and the American Gold Cup as an amateur in which sport?

Show jumping drew her back after a break for university in New York; she began riding at six and rode for her school's equestrian team.

Which company, founded in 1993 when Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were six, produced their films, videos and merchandise?

Dualstar gave the twins executive producer credits on their own TV films as small children, and they became its co-presidents on their eighteenth birthday in 2004.

Which toy company sold Mary-Kate and Ashley fashion dolls, complete with outfits and accessory packs, from 2000 to 2005?

Mattel, the maker of Barbie, signed the twins in 1999 and unveiled the first dolls made in their likenesses at the New York toy fair in February 2000.

Which retail chain launched the Mary-Kate and Ashley clothing line for girls, stocking it in 2,500 American stores?

Walmart carried the apparel and accessories at a time when the twins' names were also selling videos, books, dolls, fragrances and even telephones.

In 2004 the Olsen twins pledged full maternity leave for garment workers sewing their clothing line in which country?

Bangladesh was the focus of a campaign by the National Labor Committee, which praised the twins for their commitment to the rights of the women making their clothes.

In which Los Angeles neighborhood were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen born in June 1986, to parents Dave and Jarnie?

Sherman Oaks was home to a real estate developer father and a personal manager mother; the twins were cast on television before their first birthday.

Which ceremony, voted on by young viewers, named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen its Favorite Movie Actress in 1996?

Kids' Choice Awards voters put the nine-year-olds ahead of Nicole Kidman and Alicia Silverstone, and of their own co-star Kirstie Alley.

In the sitcom Two of a Kind, the Olsen twins play daughters of a widowed college professor in which city?

Chicago was the setting for the twins' return to ABC's Friday comedy block in 1998, though the series lasted a single season.

In Passport to Paris, the Olsen twins are sent to spend spring break with a grandfather doing which job?

American ambassador to France is the post that keeps him too busy for the girls, who slip away on mopeds with two French boys instead.

In Our Lips Are Sealed, the FBI's witness protection program finally hides the Olsen twins' characters in which city?

Sydney is the last resort because the talkative sisters have blown their cover everywhere else, and the film was partly shot there.

In Winning London, the Olsen twins' characters fly to England to compete in which international student event?

Model United Nations forces the team to improvise when another school has already claimed China, so they end up representing the United Kingdom.

In Getting There, the Olsen twins turn sixteen and set out for which Winter Olympics host, only to arrive too late?

Salt Lake City and its 2002 Games stay out of reach after a stolen car, a wrong flight to San Diego and a detour to a Las Vegas wedding.

In When in Rome, the Olsen twins' characters travel to Italy to take up which role, only to be quickly fired?

Interns on a summer program, they are soon re-hired and end the film with the whole group invited to New York.

The Challenge, the Olsen twins' final direct-to-video film, sets its college-scholarship reality show in which country?

Mexico suits the rival teams' names, Mayan and Aztec, and the film closes with boyfriends from the twins' earlier movies turning up to argue.

In Billboard Dad, the Olsen twins paint an ad for their widowed father high above which Los Angeles street?

Sunset Boulevard gives the sisters, a surfer and a high diver, the audience they need to find a girlfriend for their sculptor father.

Which Oscar-winning actress played both wicked Aunt Agatha and her twin in the Olsens' Double, Double, Toil and Trouble?

Cloris Leachman's Agatha has cursed her own twin, and only another set of twins holding a magic moonstone can break the spell before midnight on Halloween.

In How the West Was Fun, the Olsen twins fight to save which struggling business from its owner's scheming son?

A dude ranch run by their late mother's godmother is the prize, and their little sister Elizabeth turns up briefly as a girl in a car.

Mary-Kate Olsen earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for which sitcom about Malibu sisters Riley and Chloe Carlson?

So Little Time ran for one season across Fox Family and its successor ABC Family, and the nomination went to Mary-Kate alone.

In the TV film Switching Goals, twins played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen swap places on rival teams in which sport?

Soccer was serious enough business for the film that the teenage twins trained with the United States women's national team to prepare.

In the cartoon Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!, the Olsen twins voice teenage versions of themselves working as what?

Special agents Misty and Amber battle villains such as a cosmetics queen plotting mind-controlling make-up, but ABC dropped the cartoon after one season.

In The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley, the mystery-solving Olsen twins' sidekick Clue is what kind of animal?

A basset hound named Clue joined the singing sleuths on every case, each of which began with a phone call about some urgent puzzle.

In You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Birthday Party, the twins end up taking their friends to which theme park?

Six Flags wins out after the twins picture a moon bounce party, a pool party and a makeover party and still cannot decide.

Which 1994 family comedy features Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in a cameo as twins at Darla's sleepover?

The Little Rascals brought Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts to cinemas, with the young twins credited simply as Twin #1 and Twin #2.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen made uncredited cameos as future crime-fighters in which 2003 action sequel?

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle imagines the twins as replacement Angels in a daydream of Drew Barrymore's character Dylan, alongside the rapper Eve.

On which cartoon did the Olsen twins voice themselves in 2004, reading the audiobook of a mother's romance novel?

The Simpsons cast them as narrators of The Harpooned Heart, the seafaring romance Marge writes, in an episode that also features the novelist Thomas Pynchon.

The Olsen twins guest-starred as themselves in 1997 on Sister, Sister, a sitcom built around which real-life twins?

Tia and Tamera Mowry played twins separated at birth who meet by chance in a shopping mall, a premise that ran for six seasons.

On which family drama about a minister's household did the Olsen twins guest-star in 2000 as troublemaking sisters?

7th Heaven cast the wholesome pair against type as bad girls Sue and Carol Murphy in an episode titled Gossip.

In 2007 Mary-Kate Olsen took a recurring role as Tara Lindman, a devout young Christian, on which Showtime series?

Weeds gave her a part far from her family-film image: a fundamentalist who worships Jesus and sells pot, in the comedy's third season.

Mary-Kate Olsen's final film role came in which 2011 teen fantasy, casting the spell that transforms a vain bully?

Beastly retells Beauty and the Beast in modern New York, and her character Kendra leaves the bully bald, scarred and heavily tattooed.

Which luxury department store bought the entire first collection of the Olsen twins' label The Row in 2006?

Barneys New York took all seven pieces, and its bankruptcy years later hit the label hard because it was one of the biggest accounts.

In 2012 the Council of Fashion Designers of America gave the Olsen twins their first top prize in which category?

Womenswear Designer of the Year went to the twins again in 2015, and the same council has since honored their accessories several times.

Which veteran American model posed for The Row's first look book in 2008, shooting it at Ashley Olsen's beach house?

Lauren Hutton praised the clothes as simple and minimalist, and four years later she joined the twins at the ceremony for their first major design prize.

Which department store chain sold Olsenboye, the Olsen twins' budget line with every item priced under fifty dollars?

JCPenney introduced the line in select stores in November 2009 and nationwide the next spring, and a limited-edition change purse later raised money for after-school programs.

In 2019 Elizabeth and James, the Olsen twins' line named after two siblings, became exclusive to which store chain?

Kohl's took over a label launched in 2007 and named after the twins' younger sister and their older brother James, who goes by Trent.

In 2024 the family that owns which French fashion house bought a stake in the Olsen twins' label The Row?

Chanel owners Alain and Gérard Wertheimer joined a deal that valued the label at around a billion dollars, eighteen years after its first collection.

Which children's television network acquired the rights to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's library of videos in 2015?

Nickelodeon made the deal a month before the twins confirmed they would not return for the Full House sequel.

Which footwear brand worked with the Olsen twins in 2011 on shoes for children in Honduras, a trip they made together?

TOMS gave away a pair for each pair it sold, and the sisters went along to fit the shoes on children themselves.

On which sitcom from the Full House creator did the Olsen twins reprise their famous role in a 1992 crossover?

Hangin' with Mr. Cooper was also set in the San Francisco Bay Area and first aired straight after Full House on Tuesday nights, which made the visit an easy fit.

Which upscale American label chose the Olsen twins as its faces in 2006, then replaced them with Sharon Stone?

Badgley Mischka hired them in the same year the twins quietly finished the first seven-piece collection for a label of their own.