10 Things I Hate About You and The Secret World of Alex Mack made Larisa Oleynik a true icon of the 1990s.

At age 12, Oleynik won the leading role on Nickelodeon sitcom Alex Mack after competing against more than 400 other aspiring young actresses in an open casting call. The series ran for 78 episodes between 1994 and 1998, establishing Oleynik a teen idol in the process. She parlayed her Nickelodeon fame into leading roles in Hollywood blockbusters like The Baby-Sitters Club and 10 Things I Hate About You by the late 1990s.

Oleynik has mostly maintained privacy around her romantic life, though she did date 10 Things costar Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the late 1990s. She told Morbidly Beautiful in 2019 that she realized at an early age that it was important to keep her personal life away fr

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