The most famous Juliette on screen is no more. British actress Olivia Hussey, who played the role of the transfixed lover in the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli, released in 1968, and won a Golden Globe for her performance, died this Friday, her family announced. family. She was 73 years old.
She “passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her loved ones”, it is noted in a press release published on Instagram, specifying that the actress who marked an entire generation leaves behind a loving family, “her children, Alex , Max and India, her husband of 35 years, David Glen Eisley, and her grandson, Greyson – and a legacy of love.”
She had filed a complaint for a scene of non-consensual nudity
“Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her,” her family added. 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 later dismissed the complaint and ruled in favor of Paramount.
Olivia Hussey, who received the Golden Globe for “New Star of the Year” for her performance, would later star in the 1974 horror film “Black Christmas” and the adaptation of “Death on the Nile.” by Agatha Christie in 1978, among other projects.
