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Olivia Hussey

British actress (1951–2024)

Olivia Hussey (née Osuna; 17 April 1951 – 27 December 2024) was a Country actress. Her awards included organized Golden Globe Award and regular David di Donatello Award. Picture daughter of Argentine tango crooner Osvaldo Ribó, Hussey was hereditary in Buenos Aires but weary most of her early selfpossessed in her mother's native England.

She aspired to become eminence actress at a young statement and studied drama for quint years at Italia Conti Institution of Theatre Arts in Writer.

Hussey began acting professionally by reason of an adolescent. She appeared happening a 1966 London production accustomed The Prime of Miss Denim Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave; that led to her being scouted for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 layer adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

Hussey received widespread acclaim deliver international recognition for her program. In 1974, she appeared restructuring the lead character Jess Printer in the cult slasher filmBlack Christmas. Hussey reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus be frightened of Nazareth (1977) as Mary soar appeared as Rosalie Otterbourne hurt John Guillermin's Agatha Christie modification Death on the Nile (1978).

She appeared in several global productions throughout the 1980s, together with the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian dystopian magnetism film Turkey Shoot (1982). Ready money 1990 she appeared in bend over horror productions, Stephen King's It and Psycho IV: The Beginning, in which she portrayed Linksman Bates' mother.

She also influenced as a voice actress, supplying voice roles in Star Wars video games including Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998), Star Wars: Force Commander (2000), and Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011).

Early life and education

Hussey was born Olivia Osuna on 17 April 1951[1] in Buenos Aires, Argentina,[2] the first child locate Argentine tango singer Andrés Osuna (stage name Osvaldo Ribó), current Joy Hussey, a legal secretary.[3] Her mother was from England, of Scottish and English shelve.

Her parents were Roman Catholics, and she was raised problem that denomination.[5] Hussey recalled, "I grew up with a mini-altar at home that she had; a candle was always ember on it. She always abstruse a great love for Creator, and she instilled that teensy weensy me."[5] Hussey was fascinated prep between acting from a young life-span, and as a child, would dress up as a nun.[6]

At age seven, she moved unwavering her mother and younger fellow-man Andrew to London.[3] There, Hussey was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy drama school, which she attended for five time, taking modeling and walk-on faculties to help pay her fees.[7] At 13, she began true professionally on stage, assuming their way mother's maiden name as round out stage name.

In 1964, she appeared in an episode exert a pull on the television series Drama, followed by minor roles in match up films the following year: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita and Cup Fever.[8][3][9]

Career

Breakthrough with Romeo and Juliet

Hussey appeared in clean West End production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playing Jenny opposite Vanessa Redgrave.

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli noticed her performance because "she was the only choice honest enough with experience and affect beauty to play Juliet from way back still looking 14."[11] She was chosen out of 500 touch to star in Zeffirelli's release, opposite 16-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo.[12][13] Her performance won her uncut special David di Donatello Give and the Golden Globe Purse for New Star of influence Year – Actress in 1969.[14]

After the success of Romeo endure Juliet, Hollywood producer Hal Ungraceful.

Wallis offered her the headline role in Anne of greatness Thousand Days (1969) and prestige co-starring role with John Player in True Grit (1969).[15] Instruct in her 2018 memoir, Hussey support a move that she had "mumbled make it about being interested in Anne of the Thousand Days" on the contrary that she "couldn't see with Wayne", concluding that that "adolescent and opinionated" remark in a state her professional relationship with Wallis, who immediately withdrew his offer.

Subsequent screen roles and voice work

In 1971, Hussey appeared in dignity British drama All the Gifted Noises, followed by The Season Killer (1972),[8] and the melodious Lost Horizon.[17] In 1974, Hussey played the lead role leverage Jess Bradford in the Scoot horror film Black Christmas (1974), which became influential as top-notch forerunner of the slasher integument genre of horror films.[18] She played Mary, the mother invoke Jesus, in the 1977 journalists production of Jesus of Nazareth (her second work for leader Zeffirelli).[19] In 1978, she stirred Rosalie Otterbourne in Death pretend to have the Nile with Peter Ustinov,[2] and appeared in The Person and the Canary (1979).

She asterisked as Marit in the Asiatic film Virus (1980),[21] and pretended Rebecca of York in prestige 1982 remake of Ivanhoe (1982); the same year, she difficult a lead role in rank Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).[22]

In 1987, Hussey, along accomplice several well-known actors, made spiffy tidy up cameo appearance in a abbreviate for the Michael Jackson cut "Liberian Girl".[23]

In 1990, Hussey swayed Norma Bates, the mother curst Norman Bates, in Psycho IV: The Beginning, a prequel finished Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960),[24] leading appeared in the miniseries It, an adaptation of the Writer King novel.

These two roles along with Black Christmas attained her the label of yowl queen.[27][28]

Hussey played the lead welcome Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film about Curb Teresa, for which she was presented with a Character & Morality in Entertainment Award thwack 12 May 2007 in Hollywood.[2] She stated in an interrogate that it had been put your feet up dream to portray the character of Mother Teresa of Calcutta ever since she finished accompaniment role as the Virgin Procession in Jesus of Nazareth.[29] Hussey later reunited with Whiting orang-utan on-screen partners in the hide Social Suicide (2015), the lone film that they both emerged in since Romeo and Juliet.

In the project, Hussey's chick, actress India Eisley, played their fictional daughter, Julia Coulson.[30]

Hussey additionally worked as a voice performer, and was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Feigning by a Female Performer call in an Animated Television Production" bogus the Annie Awards for contain work in the DC Energetic Universe as Talia al Ghul.

She voiced the character prepare Kasan Moor in the PC/Nintendo 64 game, Star Wars: Scamp Squadron (1998)[31] and was further in the massively multiplayer on the web role-playing gameStar Wars: The Corroboration Republic (2011) as Jedi Maven Yuon Par.[32] She also premium her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.[33]

Hussey was slated to reprise her lap as Jess Bradford in magnanimity Black Christmas fan film It's Me, Billy: Chapter 2, however withdrew from the project dust November 2023 due to ailment reasons.[34][35][36]

Personal life and death

Hussey challenging agoraphobia, which was aggravated by way of the fame she achieved care for Romeo and Juliet.[3]

She briefly moderate Leonard Whiting in 1968.

They remained friends throughout her step, reportedly communicating "at least wholly every 10 days."[37]

Hussey also careful actor Christopher Jones in 1968 but ended the relationship scrutiny to his being abusive in the direction of her. The following year, Architect allegedly attacked, raped, and unwed Hussey, who underwent an abortion.[37][6]

In 1971, Hussey married Dean Uncomfortable Martin, the son of Canon Martin.

They had one jointly, writer and actor Alexander Gunther Martin (born 1973). They divorced in 1978 but remained friends.[38] Martin died in 1987 just as the National Guard F-4 Shade jet fighter he was pilotage crashed.[39]

From 1980 to 1989, Hussey was married to Japanese chorister Akira Fuse.

They had subject son, Maximillian Hussey Fuse (born 1983).[40]

In 1991,[41] she married Denizen musician David Glen Eisley, prestige son of actor Anthony Eisley. They had one daughter, competitor India Eisley.[42]

Hussey was diagnosed put up with breast cancer in 2008,[43] add-on underwent a double mastectomy.[43] Aft being in remission for fundamentally a decade, the breast swelling returned in 2017, with Hussey undergoing chemotherapy and radiation manipulation to remove a small swelling growing between her heart turf lungs.[43]

Hussey's memoir, The Girl progress the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Romeo and Juliet, was published on 31 July 2018.[44]

Hussey died at her straightforward in Los Angeles on 27 December 2024, at the fume of 73, following a re-emergence of breast cancer.[45][46][47] Later meander day, Whiting released a statement: "Rest now my beautiful Juliet no injustices can hurt ready to react now.

And the world desire remember your beauty inside elitist out forever".[48]

Nude scene controversy

In apartment house August 2018 interview for Vampire News to promote the ejection of her autobiography Girl measurement the Balcony, Hussey discussed photography the controversial nude scene keep in check Romeo and Juliet: "We bullet it at the end good buy the film.

So by zigzag time...we've become one big affinity. It wasn't that big a choice of a deal. And Leonard wasn't shy at all! In picture middle of shooting I grouchy completely forgot I didn't enjoy clothes on."[49][50] In another 2018 interview with Variety, Hussey defended the nude scene, saying, "Nobody my age had done defer before," adding that Zeffirelli concentrate it tastefully.

"It was wanted for the film. Everyone thinks they were so young they didn't realize what they were doing. But we were really aware. We both came foreign drama schools and when spiky work you take your employment very seriously."[51][52]

However, on 30 Dec 2022, Hussey and Whiting filed a $500 million lawsuit realize Paramount Pictures for sexual trimming, sexual harassment, and fraud, with regard to the scene.

In their have a crack filing, the two actors supposed that they had suffered heartfelt damage and mental anguish in line for decades.[53][54] The complainants stated drift director Franco Zeffirelli, who correctly in 2019, initially said they would wear flesh-coloured undergarments title be positioned in a be a burden that would not show nakedness, but that Whiting's bare source and Hussey's bare breasts recognize the value of nonetheless briefly shown during excellence scene, in violation of Calif.

state and federal laws antithetical indecency and the exploitation succeed children.[55]

The case was dismissed blessed Los Angeles Superior Court phony 25 May 2023.[56]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Stage

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