Eric Christian Olsen

Acting

Eric Christian Olsen

Born

1977-05-31 (49)

Place of birth

Eugene, Oregon, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Eric Christian Olsen (born May 31, 1977) is an American actor, writer and producer. He is known for his portrayals of Investigator Marty Deeks on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles, Austin in the film Not Another Teen Movie, Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd and as producer/executive producer on the 2024 reboot of Matlock.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 12 titles

The Back-Up Plan poster
6.1

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.

The Back-Up Plan

2010

Battle of the Sexes poster
6.7

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Battle of the Sexes

2017

The Thing poster
6.3

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

The Thing

2011

Celeste & Jesse Forever poster
6.4

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

Celeste & Jesse Forever

2012

Band of Robbers poster
5.9

A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

Band of Robbers

2016

Warning Labels poster
7.7

Two workers for the Center For Disease Control meet for drinks, only to discover that love is the most hazardous thing of all.

Warning Labels

2015

LEGO Hero Factory: Savage Planet poster
6.3

The Hero Factory's mission: to build the bravest, most advanced Heroes in the galaxy! When rookie Rocka responds to a civilian distress call from the planet Quatros.

LEGO Hero Factory: Savage Planet

2011

Sun Dogs poster
6.5

A man eager to serve his country but rejected by the Marines pairs up with a young runaway to form an unlikely team on a misguided adventure.

Sun Dogs

2017

LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies poster
6.1

A new Rookie team has been assigned to complete their training with Stormer and his crew - but someone from Stormer's past is trying to take down the Hero Factory and Stormer himself.

LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies

2010

The Place of No Words poster
7.0

A young boy battles the complexities of a grown-up world with his father.

The Place of No Words

2019

LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire poster
4.7

Heroes Preston Stormer, Mark Surge, William Furno, and Natalie Breez are outgunned by Fire Lord and his gang of Fire Villains and Surge makes a sacrifice to save the others. After they escape, Stormer, Furno, and Breez are upgraded to more powerful 2.0 versions with the “upgrade” technique and then go back to save Surge. Fire Lord captures Stormer and tells them of the Fire Villains’ history as mining bots. Corrupted by power, the Fire Villains sought to become more and more powerful. Stormer, Furno, and Breez then capture the Fire Villains with the help of Nathan Evo and Julius Nex.

LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire

2011

The Relationtrip poster
5.1

After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip where things get weird. Really, really weird.

The Relationtrip

2017

2000s · 17 titles

The Hot Chick poster
6.4

Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.

The Hot Chick

2002

Pearl Harbor poster
6.9

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Pearl Harbor

2001

Cellular poster
6.4

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

Cellular

2004

Not Another Teen Movie poster
5.8

On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.

Not Another Teen Movie

2001

License to Wed poster
5.7

Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.

License to Wed

2007

Eagle Eye poster
6.5

Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.

Eagle Eye

2008

Fired Up! poster
6.1

Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.

Fired Up!

2009

The Last Kiss poster
6.1

Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.

The Last Kiss

2006

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd poster
4.2

This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

2003

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay poster
5.2

A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

2009

Sunshine Cleaning poster
6.6

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

Sunshine Cleaning

2009

Beerfest poster
5.9

During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.

Beerfest

2006

The Comebacks poster
4.9

Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

The Comebacks

2007

Local Boys poster
6.4

On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s attention turns to a girl. Beyond his wildest dreams, Skeet is taken under the wings of surfing legend Jim Wesley who gives Skeet first-hand lessons in hot-dogging. Meanwhile, Randy, still dealing with the loss of his father and trying to fill his shoes, is jealous of Jim’s influence on Skeet and isn’t thrilled when Jim begins a relationship with their single mom. Tangled by the conflict between his brother and his newfound father figure, Skeet retreats to his room while longing to surf.

Local Boys

2002

Mojave poster
4.9

Four friends head to the desert to attend a winter rave. Instead, it turns into the trip to hell when they meet up with a couple of bad locals.

Mojave

2004

Write & Wrong poster
3.7

Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As she's aged, the industry hasn't, and the new regime isn't interested in what a maturing wordsmith has to say. In desperation, Byrdie dreams up a script-selling scheme, enlisting her attractive nephew Jason, a car salesman, to pitch her work as his own. The ruse is a wild success: All the key players eat up his charm, and her scripts soon become the hottest thing in town!

Write & Wrong

2007

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6.3

Three stubborn teenagers place a bet over which one of them is the meanest.

Mean People Suck

2001

1990s · 2 titles

Series credits

Smallville poster
8.2

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Smallville

2001

NCIS: Los Angeles poster
7.5

The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009

24 poster
7.8

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

24

2001

ER poster
7.8

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

ER

1994

Community poster
8.0

Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

Community

2009

Brothers and Sisters poster
7.1

The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.

Brothers and Sisters

2006

Steve poster
6.0

After ending his Chicago-based show, Steve Harvey heads to Los Angeles to host a new weekday syndicated program aiming to bring a late night atmosphere to the afternoon.

Steve

2017

Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil poster
8.2

Clarence Buttowski, a young boy, aspires to become the world's greatest daredevil, as he gets help from Gunther, his loyal friend and partner-in-crime.

Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil

2010

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction poster
7.3

Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

Steve Harvey poster
7.0

Steve Harvey is a syndicated American talk show that is hosted by comedian/actor/radio personality Steve Harvey, who also serves as its executive producer. This is his first television talk foray, which is produced by Endemol and distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution in the United States and Canada. The program debuted on September 4, 2012, and it is Harvey's second syndicated program in which he handles hosting duties, as he continues to host Family Feud at the same time. The series is taped in Chicago at the WMAQ studios. The show attracted 2.2 million viewers daily and, in January 2013, Steve Harvey was renewed for a second season. The series has since been renewed for three additional seasons through 2016.

Steve Harvey

2012

Tru Calling poster
7.2

A university graduate working in the city morgue is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.

Tru Calling

2003

Get Real poster
7.7

Get Real was a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green family of Los Angeles. It ran from September 1999 to April 2000. It starred Eric Christian Olsen and Anne Hathaway in very early roles, as the older siblings to central character of the series, youngest child, Kenny.

Get Real

1999

The Loop poster
6.7

The Loop is an American sitcom that ran from March 15, 2006 to July 1, 2007 on Fox. The show starred Bret Harrison as Sam Sullivan, a young professional trying to balance the needs of his social life with the pressures of working at the corporate headquarters of TransAlliance Airways, a major U.S. airline. Set in the city of Chicago, whose downtown loop area acted as the setting for most of the show. The show's theme song is "Hockey Monkey" by James Kochalka Superstar and the Zambonis.

The Loop

2006

Neighbors from Hell poster
6.4

The Hellmans are a typical, all-American suburban family in every way except one: they're from hell. They've been sent to Earth by Satan, on a mission to stop humans from drilling into their underworld home.

Neighbors from Hell

2010

Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television poster
6.3

The LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives.

Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television

2017

LEGO Hero Factory poster
6.9

Based around the LEGO toy line of the same name, Hero Factory is set in a place known as Makuhero City. Here, Heroes are built in the Hero Factory and sent on missions around the universe, dealing with a variety of galactic problems such as alien infestations, natural disasters, and criminals.

LEGO Hero Factory

2010

Teen Choice Awards poster
9.1

The Teen Choice Awards is a teen awards show presented annually by Fox. The first awards were held in 1999. The program honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teens aged 13–19. The program features a number of celebrities and also musical performers. The winners are awarded with authentic mini size (182 cm) surfboards designed with a summertime theme. The ceremony has created spin-off teen awards on YouTube.

Teen Choice Awards

1999