On December 27, 2024, British actress Olivia Hussey died at the age of 73, her family lamented. She was the star of the film “Romeo and Juliet” in 1968.
British actress Olivia Hussey, winner of a Golden Globe for her role as teenage Juliette in the film “Romeo and Juliet” by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968, died Friday at the age of 73, his family announced.
“A remarkable person”
“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.
Born in Buenos Aires, 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.
A complaint after his greatest success
In 2023, the two actors filed a complaint against the studio Paramount Pictures for a scene of non-consensual nudity. A US judge later dismissed the suit and ruled in favor of Paramount.
Olivia Hussey, who won the Golden Globe for “New star of the year” for his performance he would 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.
