Olive Ostrovsky is a speller in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Background[]
Olive Ostrovsky is a word lover. She is a shy newcomer to the spelling bee.
Her parents are often absent from her life as her mom's in an ashram in India and her dad is often at work.
Appearance[]
Olive has brownish-blonde hair put into two ponytails and wears pink overalls over a white long sleeve.
Trivia[]
- Olive is the only speller with more than one song focused on her.
- Even though these songs are more focused on her, they both have more than one person singing.
- She's the only character with more than one epilogue.
- William Finn decided to replace the first epilogue because he thought it sounded too depressing.
- She claims her best friend is a dictionary that she read when she was younger.
- She becomes good friends with William Barfée.
- After the spelling bee, Rona Lisa Peretti adopts Olive, whose name is changed to Olive Peretti.
- When Olive grows up, she marries William Barfee, who adopts the surname 'Peretti'.