The actress also played in the horror film “Black Christmas”, “Death on the Nile” and played Mary in the mini-series “Jesus of Nazareth” broadcast in 1977.
France Télévisions – Culture Editorial
Published on 28/12/2024 12:35
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British actress Olivia Hussey, winner of a Golden Globe for her role as a teenage Juliet in the film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968, died on Friday December 27 at the age of 73, his family announced.
“Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her”his family said in a statement posted on their Instagram account.
According to Variety (link in English), filmmaker Marc Huestis, who confirmed the death of the actress San Francisco Chronicle, said she died of breast cancer. He was diagnosed in 2008 and she suffered a recurrence ten years later.
Born in Buenos Aires, Olivia Hussey was 15 when she and her partner Leonard Whiting, then 16, played the famous lovers in the Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy.
In 2023, the two actors filed a complaint against the studio Paramount Pictures for a scene of non-consensual nudity. An American judge rejected the complaint and ruled in favor of Paramount.
The actress, who received the Golden Globe for “New Star of the Year” for her performance, will later star in the horror film “Black Christmas” in 1974 and in the adaptation of Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie in 1978, among other projects. She also played Marie in the mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
Olivia Hussey Eisley was the mother of three children and the wife of singer David Glen Eisley.
