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The actress who played Juliet in the film “Romeo and Juliet”, Olivia Hussey, has died at the age of 73.
Juliette was her. Olivia Hussey, who played the role of the teenager in the film “Romeo and Juliet”, has died at the age of 73. “Romeo and Juliet” directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968, allowed the British actress to win a Golden Globe.
Olivia Hussey was 15 when she and her partner Leonard Whiting, then 16, played the famous lovers in the Oscar-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
“Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her,” her family said in a statement posted on their Instagram account.
Olivia Hussey would later star in the 1974 horror film “Black Christmas” and the 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile,” among other projects.
In 2023, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting filed a complaint against the studio Paramount Pictures for a scene of non-consensual nudity in “Romeo and Juliet”. An American judge later dismissed the complaint and ruled in favor of Paramount.
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