Their family’s origins are in Scandinavia, as suggested by their last name. The Olsen family is Norwegian and Danish in descent.
The twins’ parents noticed their girls had something particularly unusual from the moment they were born: they were constantly grinning and laughing.
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It’s still a common misconception that the Olsen twins are identical twins. Since the Olsen sisters are fraternal twins, it’s possible that they have completely different appearances. Like any other siblings, they only share half of their genes.
Their mother took them to an audition for the popular American television comedy “Full House,” which ran from 1987 to 1995, when they were just six months old. The producer chose the Olsen twins over the other set of twins who had been selected by the production crew to play “Michelle Tanner” in the series.
The twins’ Michelle portrayal won over the audience right away. “You got it, dude!” was her most famous quote of all time, and it became a classic.
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As the majority of people are aware today, Ashley and Mary-Kate took turns playing Michelle. The girls had to take turns performing because they were so little at the time; otherwise, it would be too much for them.
Even Nevertheless, the production crew made every effort to conceal the fact that Michelle was being played by two girls. As an illustration, her character’s original credit was “Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen.”
Because of the twins’ immense popularity, “Full House” writers started crafting unique plots specifically for Michelle. Ashley and Mary-Kate remained on the show until its 1995 finale.
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In private, some professors claimed that Mary-Kate and Ashley were extremely bashful in class and that they were even put in different classrooms because they relied too much on one other.
Mary-Kate Olsen has publicly discussed her childhood as an actress and expressed her remorse over being a part of “Full House” in the past.
She claimed that in front of the cameras, she and her sister performed like “little monkeys”:
I have no connection to the old pictures of myself that I see. In an interview with Marie Claire magazine, Mary-Kate said, “I would never wish my upbringing on anyone.”
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