Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 17th, 1951 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 73, Olivia Hussey biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is a British actress.
Hussey was selected to perform Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet (1968), after appearing in theatre in London.
She received a Golden Globe and the David di Donatello Award for her appearance, as well as international recognition for her work. Jess Bradford, the lead character in the cult slasher film Black Christmas, appeared in 1974.
In the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977), she reunited with Zeffirelli as Mary, mother of Jesus, and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie version Death on the Nile (1978).
She appeared in several international films in the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).
She appeared in two made-for-television horror films, Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King's It, which were both first broadcast in 1990. Hussey has performed as a voice actor in numerous Star Wars video games, including Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, in addition to screen acting.
Early life
Hussey was born Olivia Osuna in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first child of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna (who performed under the stage name Osvaldo Ribó) and Joy (née Hussey), a legal secretary from England, appeared on 19 April 1951. Her parents were both Roman Catholics, and she was raised in that faith. Hussey recalled, "My mother was a devout Catholic." "I grew up with a mini-altar at home that she didn't have; a candle was always alight on it." She had a natural love for God and instilled that in me." Hussey's parents divorced when she was two years old.
Hussey was fascinated by acting from a young age, and as a child, she would dress herself and pretend to be a nun. She and her mother and younger brother moved to London, where she spent the remainder of her childhood. Hussey's mother enrolled her in the Italia Conti Academy drama school, where she attended for five years. She began performing on stage at the age of 13.
Personal life
Hussey stayed active for two years after Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet's triumph, owing to an ongoing battle with agoraphobia. Following the film's completion, she and Whiting dated for a brief period and have remained close friends for the remainder of their lives, with some reportedly saying "at least once every ten days."
On the day of her twentieth birthday, she married actor Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer Dean Martin. Alexander Gunther Martin (who became an actor in 1973) and the family had a son 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 as a result of a snowstorm.
Hussey married Akira Fuse in 1980: one at home in Los Angeles and the other in Miami, an Indian wedding. In 1983, she and his son Max were born and divorced Fuse in 1989. In 1991, she married David Glen Eisley, the son of actor Anthony Eisley. India Eisley, a former actress, gave birth to their daughter in October 1993.
In 2008, Hussey was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy to correct the cancer rather than chemotherapy or radiation. Hussey found the breast cancer in 2018 after being in remission for more than a decade, after being in remission for almost a decade. "I'd stopped chemotherapy and radiation therapy ten years ago, wishing to avoid those poisons, but last year, I had no choice but to treat the tumor." The tumour shrank, I'm hoping to the size of a pea, and I'm doing well now. I'm healthy and well-balanced.
After Romeo and Juliet, Hussey's book The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life was published on July 31.
Career
Hussey played Jenny opposite Vanessa Redgrave on a West End production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, assuming her mother's maiden name as her stage name. Franco Zeffirelli, an Italian film producer, noticed her during the production of this play because "she was the only option mature enough with expertise and natural beauty to play Juliet while also looking 14." Juliet was chosen out of a total of 500 actresses to appear in Zeffirelli's film version of Romeo and Juliet (1968), opposite 16-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo at 15 years old. She had appeared in minor films before her appearance in Romeo and Juliet: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita and Cup Fever (both 1965), and an episode of the television series Drama (1964). In 1969, she received a special David di Donatello Award and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress for her appearances in Romeo and Juliet.
Hal B. Wallis, a Hollywood actress, offered her the leading role in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and the co-starring role with John Wayne in True Grit (1969). Hussey's book "Anne of the Thousand Days" revealed that she had "mumbled something about being interested in "Anne of the Thousand Days," but that she "couldn't see herself with Wayne." She claims that this "adolescent and opinionated" remark would have ended her career with Wallis and he immediately withdrew her advice. Hussey wrote: "It took me less than a minute to explain my way out of it."
She appeared in All the Right Noises (1971), followed by the crime film The Summertime Killer (1972), and the film Lost Horizon (1973), starring Liv Ullmann, John Gielman, and Sally Kellerman. She appeared in Jess Bradford's Canadian horror film Black Christmas (1974), which became well-known as a forerunner of the slasher film style of horror films in 1974. In the 1977 television version of Jesus of Nazareth, she played Mary, the mother of Jesus (her second appearance for director Zeffirelli). In 1978, she appeared in The Cat and the Canary (1979). Marit appeared in the Japanese film Virus (1980) and played Rebecca of York in the 1982 remake of Ivanhoe (1982); the same year, she appeared in the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).
Hussey appeared in a clip for the Michael Jackson video Liberian Girl in 1987, among others, including Steven Spielberg, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Whoopi Goldberg, Lou Ferrigno, and Billy Dee Williams. Hussey appeared in two horror films in 1990, including Norma Bates, the mother of Norman Bates, in Psycho IV: The Beginning, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), and It, a Stephen King adaptation.
In Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film about Mother Teresa, for which she was given the Character & Morality in Entertainment Award on May 12, 2007, in Hollywood, Hussey played the lead. In a conversation, she said that it had been her dream and aspire to play Mother Teresa of Calcutta since she began her work as the Virgin Mary in Jesus of Nazareth. In the film Social Suicide (2015), Hussey and Leonard Whiting reunited as on-screen partners, the first film in which they both appeared in since Romeo and Juliet (1968). Julia Coulson, Hussey's daughter, played their fictional daughter in the project.
Hussey has performed as a voice actress and was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in a Female Television Production" at the Annie Awards for her role in Ra's DC animated film series as Talia, daughter of Ra's al Ghul. She appeared 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. In 2000, she gave her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander.