Olivia Dunham
Olivia Dunham is a female television character who features in Fringe.
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Biography
Olivia Dunham was a female human born on Earth on October 12, 1979 where she was the daughter of Marilyn Dunham and an unnamed water veteran father. When she was 3 years old, her family lived in Jacksonville, Florida because her father was stationed at the local military base. At Jacksonville, she became part of a series of drug trials that previously were thought to had only been held in Ohio where schoolchildren were used as test subjects. These trials involved a drug called Cortexiphan with these being run by Walter Bishop and William Bell at a daycare centre in 1982. (Episode: Ability)
Peter and Olivia met one another as children and confided in one another. Peter convinced her to open up about the abuse she had experienced. Olivia eventually sought help from Walter but discovered she was speaking to the Walter Bishop from the other universe after she had momentarily crossed over. When Olivia finds and confides in Walter himself, he empathizes with her and threatens her stepfather Randall with a call to social services as well as the loss of financial support from the trial (Episode: Subject 13)
Dunham graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Psychology and Criminology, and served as a United States Marine Corps special investigator, prosecuting Sanford Harris, who was charged with sexually assaulting three Marine Corps Privates. Dunham was successful and Harris was jailed, though this case caused bad blood to form between FBI agent Phillip Broyles and Dunham. (Episode: Pilot)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She knew she wanted to be in law enforcement since she was 9 years old. (Episode The Ghost Network)
She was noted to have had a younger sister named Rachel who was also orphaned when their mother died. (Episode: Olivia)
Skills and abilities
She came to graduate from the Northwestern University with a B.S. in Psychology and Criminology, and had served as a United States Marine Corps special investigatod. (Episode: Pilot)
Notes
- Olivia Dunham was created by series' co-creator J. J. Abrams and was portrayed by actress Anna Torv where she featured in the setting of the Fringe universe.
Alternate Versions
- In the episode "Over There: Part 1", an alternate version of Olivia Dunham was shown to exist in a different Earth reality. Unlike the Prime Universe's Olivia Dunham, her mother Marilyn Dunham is still alive and living in Tarrytown, 45 minutes out of New York City, but her sister, Rachel, died in childbirth due to having the VPE virus. There is no mention of an abusive stepfather. Her teammates, Charlie Francis and Lincoln Lee are close friends and they are more often playfully bantering with one another for amusement. They were also willing to sacrifice themselves for Fauxlivia and willing to kill to save her life. She had once shared a kiss with Lincoln Lee. She had a live-in boyfriend who is a virologist for the CDC named Frank Stanton with whom she had met during a cholera outbreak in Hoboken. They had the same tattoo with one on her nape and another on his back. They were briefly engaged until he left her when her infidelity was known. Walternate explains to her about the other universe, but tells her that the other people who have crossed over are not to be trusted; she is dismayed to learn one of the people is the other version of herself. She shows Peter Bishop around and learns more about her counterpart until she is confronted by her in her own apartment. Olivia demands to see Peter Bishop, while they learn of each other's background and Bolivia falsely agrees to help her, before she points her gun at her and tries to call Fringe for back-up. The two then get into a physical confrontation, before Bolivia is knocked out. Later, as she wakes up, she continues the search for Olivia and the others, as she agrees to Walternate's plan to replace Olivia while she is captured. She goes to the Prime Universe with Walter and Peter as her new assignment, as the Bishops are seemingly unaware of her true identity. In the primary universe, she replaced Olivia and developed a relationship with Peter Bishop, who originally had feelings for 'our' Olivia and thought he was in a relationship with her, not realizing she had been replaced. Although she slipped several times, she had managed to deflect any awkwardness around Peter with playful teasing. This made Peter ignore the signs that he was not with the right Olivia. She developed genuine feelings for Peter Bishop despite initially seducing him to cover her tracks. Upon her return to her universe, she agreed to marry Frank Stanton, but then discovered that she was pregnant with Peter Bishop's child resulting in her fiancé leaving her for good.
Appearances
- Fringe:
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