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Olivia Hussey Biography, Age, Family, Wiki, Net worth

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Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is an English actress. After appearing in theatre in London, Hussey was chosen to play the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Romeo and Juliet (1968). She won a Golden Globe and the David di Donatello Award for her performance and gained international recognition. olivia hussey biography … she is the British actress known for her role of Juliet; she won the Golden Globe for it.

In 1974, she appeared as the lead character, Jess Bradford, in the cult slasher film Black Christmas. She reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977), as Mary, mother of Jesus, and appeared in John Guillermin’s Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978). She appeared in several international productions throughout the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus (1980), and the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982). She appeared in two made-for-television horror productions: Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King‘s It, both first screened in 1990.

Olivia Hussey Biography / Wiki

Known For	Famous for starring in the Black Christmas movie
Nickname	Hussey
Full Name	Olivia Hussey
Profession	Actress
Nationality	British
Age	71 years old (in 2022)
Date of Birth	April 17, 1951
Birthplace	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Religion	Roman Catholic
Zodiac Sign	Aries

Olivia Hussey Education

School	Tennessee school
College	Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts Ltd

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Height, Weight & Physical Stats

Height	5 Feet 2 Inches (1.57 m)
Weight	59 kg (130 lbs)
Waist	24 Inches
Hips	34 Inches
Dress Size	4 (US)
Body Type	Hourglass
Eye Color	Green
Hair Color	Black

Olivia Hussey Career

Profession	Actress
Known For	Famous for starring in the Black Christmas movie
Debut
Film Debut	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
TV Show	Drama 61-67 (1964)
Net Worth	USD $8 million Approx

Family & Relatives

Father	Osvaldo Ribó
Mother	Joy Alma Hussey
Brother(s)	Andrew Osuna
Marital Status	Married
Husband	David Glen Eisley (m. 1991)
Children	3
Son(s)	Alexander Martin
Daughter(s)	India Eisley, Maximillian Fuse

Dating History

Akira Fuse	(m. 1980–1989)
Dean Paul Martin	(m. 1971–1978)
Christopher Jones	(1968 – 1969)
Terry Melcher	(1969)
Leonard Whiting	(1967)

Olivia Hussey Favorites

Hobbies	Traveling
Favorite Food	Chocolate
Favorite Color	Black, White

Career

1968–69: Romeo and Juliet and career beginnings

At just 15 years old, Olivia Hussey was chosen from 500 actresses to star as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Romeo and Juliet (1968), opposite Leonard Whiting’s Romeo. Hussey’s natural beauty and experience on the London stage made her the perfect choice for the role of Juliet. Prior to Romeo and Juliet, Hussey had appeared in minor roles in two films: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita and Cup Fever (both 1965), and an episode of the television series Drama 61–67 (1964). In 1969, she won a special David di Donatello Award and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her performance in Romeo and Juliet.

After the success of Romeo and Juliet, Hollywood producer, Hal B. Wallis, offered her the title role in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969). She would also co-star with John Wayne in True Grit (1969). In her 2018 memoir, Hussey stated that she had “mumbled something about being interested in Anne of the Thousand Days” but added that she “couldn’t see herself with Wayne”. She claims that this “adolescent and opinionated” remark inevitably ended her professional relationship with Wallis. “It had taken me less than a minute to talk my way out of it” Hussey stated.

1970–2000: Black Christmas and continued acting

In 1971, she appeared in the British drama All the Right Noises, followed by the crime film The Summertime Killer (1972), and the musical Lost Horizon (1973), opposite Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud, and Sally Kellerman. In 1974, she played the leading role of Jess Bradford in the Canadian horror film, Black Christmas (1974), which became influential as a forerunner of the slasher film genre of horror films. She played Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the 1977 television production of Jesus of Nazareth (her second work for director Zeffirelli). In 1978 she played Rosalie Otterbourne in Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov and appeared in The Cat and the Canary (1979). She also starred as Marit in the Japanese film Virus (1980), and played Rebecca of York in the 1982 remake of Ivanhoe (1982); the same year, she had a lead role in the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).

In 1987, Hussey appeared in a clip for the Michael Jackson video Liberian Girl, among others. In 1990, Hussey appeared in two horror projects, playing Norma Bates, the mother of Norman Bates, in Psycho IV: The Beginning, a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), and in the miniseries It, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Post-2000 and voice work

Hussey played the lead in Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film about Mother Teresa, for which she was presented with a Character & Morality in Entertainment Award on 12 May 2007 in Hollywood. She stated in an interview that it had been her dream and wish to portray the role of Mother Teresa of Calcutta since she finished her role as the Virgin Mary in Jesus of Nazareth. Hussey and Leonard Whiting reunited as on-screen partners in the film Social Suicide (2015), the only film that they both appeared in since Romeo and Juliet (1968).

Hussey has also worked as a voice actress and was nominated for “Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production” at the Annie Awards for her work in the DC animated universe, as Talia al Ghul. She voiced the character of Kasan Moor in the PC/Nintendo 64 game, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998), and was also in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) as Jedi Master Yuon Par. She also lent her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.

Early Life

Hussey was born Olivia Osuna in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first child of Andrés Osuna, an Argentine opera singer, and Joy Hussey, a secretary originally from England. Her parents divorced when she was 2 years old. At age of seven, Hussey moved with her mother and younger brother to London where she spent the remainder of her early life. Her parents were Catholic, and she was raised as a Roman Catholic.

In London, she attended the Italia Conti Academy drama school for five years. At 13, she began acting professionally on the stage.

Awards and Nominations

Annie Awards

2001: Nominated, “Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production” – Batman Beyond

David di Donatello Awards

1969: Won, “Best Actress” – Romeo and Juliet

Golden Globe Awards

1969: Won, “Most Promising Female Newcomer” – Romeo and Juliet

Laurel Awards

1970: Nominated, “Female New Face” – Romeo and Juliet

Personal Life

After the success of Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, Hussey took a break from acting for two years due to an ongoing struggle with agoraphobia. In 1971, she married actor Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer Dean Martin. They had a son, Alexander Gunther Martin (who became an actor), in 1973, before divorcing in 1978. Dean Paul Martin died in 1987 when his National Guard F-4 Phantom jet fighter crashed in California’s San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm.

In 1980, Hussey married the Japanese singer Akira Fuse in two ceremonies: one at home in Los Angeles, and a second, an Indian wedding, in Miami. She gave birth to their son Max in 1983 and divorced Fuse in 1989.

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