Olivia Munn : Men’s Blog

Olivia Munn (born July 2, 1982) is an American actress, model, and television personality. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. However, since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn professionally.

Also since 2006, Munn has been one of the faces of the cable network G4, hosting a number of shows for the network, the most prominent being Attack of the Show!, with co-host Kevin Pereira.

Early career
Munn moved back to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. In 2004, she interned at Fox Sports Net and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and women’s basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining “I was trying to be something I wasn’t, and that made me really uncomfortable on live TV.” Munn had also gained a small role in the straight to video horror film Scarecrow Gone Wild.

Attack of the Show!
In 2006, Munn moved on to the G4 network, where she began co-hosting Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira on April 10, 2006. The network, devoted to the world of video games and the video game lifestyle. Although she admits video games were her “weak point”, she was confident in her technical knowledge. On the show, Munn is featured with journalist Anna David in a segment of the program called “In Your Pants”, which deals with sex and relationship questions from viewers. While working on Attack of the Show!, Munn hosted Formula D, a now defunct program about American drift racing, and an online podcast called Around the Net for G4.

Acting career
Munn will make her debut in a large Hollywood film in the upcoming Rob Schneider movie Big Stan. She will play Schneider’s character’s receptionist Maria. Munn will also have a role in the 2008 horror film Insanitarium.

Modeling career
Munn is a successful model and has booked campaigns for Nike, Pepsi and Neutrogena. In February 2007, she appeared as “Babe of the Month” in a non-nude pictorial in Playboy magazine. Munn also appeared in the July/August 2007 issue of Men’s Health magazine. In September 2007, she was featured in the magazine, Italian Vanity Fair for their “Hot Young Hollywood” Issue.

She is dating actor Bryan Greenberg who is an American actor, known for his role as Jake Jagielski in the CW Network TV show One Tree Hill and as Nick Garrett on the ABC drama October Road.

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