Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

Thirlby is a participant in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project. In an interview with Brooklyn Magazine (with photos shot by iO) in 2011 Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual and stated why Olivia Thirlby decided to be a part of a photography project that focuses on people who are "anything but 100 percent straight. She voices promotional video excerpts from the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AOlivia Thirlbyr which since October 2008 have regularly been posted to YouTube.

Thirlby (born October 6 1986) is an American actress best known for her roles as Leah the best friend of Ellen Page's character in the 2007 film Juno; as Natalie in The Darkest Hour (2011) and Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd (2012). Olivia J.