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Olivia Carolyn Pope is a fictional character created by Shonda Rhimes for the political drama television series Scandal. [1] This character also played a small role in the series How to Get Away with Murder on its 4th season produced by Shonda Rhimes where she plays a crisis manager who helped Annalise get her class-action case heard by the Supreme Court. [2]
Olivia is shown to have a contentious relationship with Mellie, the First Lady; the two women cannot stand each other but tolerate each other for the sake of the presidency. Olivia's father, Eli Pope, was the leader of a secret government organization titled B613.
Olivia worked on the presidential campaign of the then-Governor Fitzgerald Thomas Grant III, with whom she began an affair. After the election, the affair ended and Olivia started her own crisis-management firm called "Olivia Pope & Associates". Darby Stanchfield as Abigail "Abby" Whelan, who worked as an investigator in Olivia's firm.
Kerry Washington on How ‘Scandal’s’ Olivia Pope Changed Her Life and Playing a Real-Life Hero in ‘The Six Triple Eight’ Angelique Jackson November 27, 2024 at 1:35 PM
The 47-year-old starred as the no-nonsense political fixer Olivia Pope for seven seasons on Scandal, with her character embarking an on-and-off-again romance with President Fitzgerald Grant III ...
She told the Hollywood Reporter, "Olivia Pope is never going to be the same person again." And Rhimes DEFINITELY delivered. She peeled away Pope's resolve little by little ...
The episode was well received by television critics, with many praising show creator Shonda Rhimes for the way in which she integrated Olivia Pope's decision to have an abortion into the episode. Ben Philippe at The A.V. Club wrote an essay about the abortion, praising it for making the show "actually political". [3]
For many viewers, she feels reminiscent of Scandal’s Olivia Pope, who also ran her own crisis firm and operated outside of the law to do what was necessary during the ABC drama’s run from 2012 ...