Maria Olsen is an American actress.

She is best known for her roles as Mrs. Dodds/Fury in "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," "Paranormal Activity 3," "American Horror Story," and Rob Zombie's "The Lords of Salem." Since 2005, Maria Olsen has worked on more than 65 feature films and more than 150 short films, TV shows, music videos, and commercials. She has also received four awards (including awards for both acting and directing), two of her short films were shown in the short film program of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, one at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and others at Weekend of Horrors and Fangoria's HorrorFest. Olsen also owns MOnsterworks66, a production company that has released films such as Brandon Scullion's "Live in Fear," Randal Kamradt Jr.'s "Far Away," Eric Michael Kochmer's "Down in Chinatown," Bert Havird's "The Reunion," and Michael LaPointe's "LoveTouchHate."