The Gersh Agency and manager Lena Roklin of Luber Roklin Entertainment have signed the British actress Olivia Cooke for representation.
Cooke will soon appear as the female lead in “The Quiet Ones” for director John Pogue, starring opposite Sam Claflin and Jared Harris. She will play Jane, a quiet and intense woman with a violent past, in Pogue's film about a university professor who assembles a team to create a poltergeist. The Hammer Films production is due to be released in 2013.
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Cooke made her debut in the BBC's mini-series “Blackout,” and she recently wrapped the BBC’s supernatural mini-series “The Secret of Crickley Hall."
She is represented by Christina Shepherd of Shepherd Management in the U.K.