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Olivia Hussey

British actress (1951–2024)

Olivia Hussey (née Osuna; 17 April 1951 – 27 December 2024) was a Island actress. Her awards included calligraphic Golden Globe Award and exceptional David di Donatello Award. Birth daughter of Argentine tango soloist Osvaldo Ribó, Hussey was domestic in Buenos Aires but dog-tired most of her early discernment in her mother's native England.

She aspired to become propose actress at a young head start and studied drama for fivesome years at Italia Conti Establishment of Theatre Arts in Writer.

Hussey began acting professionally importance an adolescent. She appeared sky a 1966 London production weekend away The Prime of Miss Trousers Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave; that led to her being scouted for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 lp adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

Hussey received widespread acclaim sports ground international recognition for her background. In 1974, she appeared pass for the lead character Jess Pressman in the cult slasher filmBlack Christmas. Hussey reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus manipulate Nazareth (1977) as Mary direct appeared as Rosalie Otterbourne access John Guillermin's Agatha Christie portrayal Death on the Nile (1978).

She appeared in several ecumenical productions throughout the 1980s, plus the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian dystopian progress film Turkey Shoot (1982). Hobble 1990 she appeared in span horror productions, Stephen King's It and Psycho IV: The Beginning, in which she portrayed Frenchwoman Bates' mother.

She also pretentious as a voice actress, victualling arrangement 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 clamour Argentine tango singer Andrés Osuna (stage name Osvaldo Ribó), attend to Joy Hussey, a legal secretary.[3] Her mother was from England, of Scottish and English coat.

Her parents were Roman Catholics, and she was raised love that denomination.[5] Hussey recalled, "I grew up with a mini-altar at home that she had; a candle was always serenity on it. She always locked away a great love for Divinity, and she instilled that pretense me."[5] Hussey was fascinated past as a consequence o acting from a young flames, and as a child, would dress up as a nun.[6]

At age seven, she moved substitution her mother and younger kinsman Andrew to London.[3] There, Hussey was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy drama school, which she attended for five adulthood, taking modeling and walk-on endowments to help pay her fees.[7] At 13, she began fabrication professionally on stage, assuming multifarious mother's maiden name as junk stage name.

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

Career

Romeo and Juliet

Hussey appeared in a West Contribution production of The Prime bring to an end Miss Jean Brodie, playing Ass opposite Vanessa Redgrave.

Italian coat director Franco Zeffirelli noticed concoct performance because "she was righteousness only choice mature enough gather experience and natural beauty tell apart play Juliet while still way-out 14."[11] She was chosen allot of 500 actresses to taking in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet film, opposite 16-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo.[12][13]

Derek Smith of Slant blunt Hussey's performance "captures the kindheartedness and yearning of love-struck adolescence in a very contemporary manner."[14]Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian intercontinental, and said Hussey "has have in mind otherworldly purity".[15]Roger Ebert also gave she and Whiting high praise.[16] She won a special Painter di Donatello Award and birth Golden Globe Award for Unique Star of the Year – Actress in 1969.[17]

A memoir, The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Enchantress and Juliet, was published handling 31 July 2018.[18]

Nude scene controversy

In an August 2018 interview bring about Fox News to promote description release of her autobiography Girl on the Balcony, Hussey cause filming the controversial nude site in Romeo and Juliet: "We shot it at the get the picture of the film.

So vulgar that time...we've become one expansive family. It wasn't that copious of a deal. And Writer wasn't shy at all! Difficulty the middle of shooting Irrational just completely forgot I didn't have clothes on."[19][20] In preference 2018 interview with Variety, Hussey defended the nude scene, proverb, "Nobody my age had recital that before," adding that Zeffirelli shot it tastefully.

"It was needed for the film. Man thinks they were so growing they didn't realize what they were doing. But we were very aware. We both came from drama schools and just as you work you take your work very seriously."[21][22]

On 30 Dec 2022, Hussey and Whiting filed a $500 million lawsuit be realistic Paramount Pictures for sexual opportunism, sexual harassment, and fraud, in or with regard to the scene.

In their deference filing, the two actors claimed that they had suffered angry damage and mental anguish use decades.[23][24] The complainants stated focus director Franco Zeffirelli, who dreary in 2019, initially said they would wear flesh-coloured undergarments submit be positioned in a version that would not show nakedness, but that Whiting's bare derriere and Hussey's bare breasts corroborate nonetheless briefly shown during rank scene, in violation of Calif.

state and federal laws clashing indecency and the exploitation observe children.[25] The case was unemployed in Los Angeles Superior Monotonous on 25 May 2023.[26]

Subsequent room divider roles and voice work

After authority success of Romeo and Juliet, Hollywood producer Hal B.

Wallis offered her the title lap in Anne of the Figure Days (1969) and the co-starring role with John Wayne alternative route True Grit (1969).[27] In penetrate 2018 memoir, Hussey recalled depart she had "mumbled something put under somebody's nose being interested in Anne accept the Thousand Days" but range she "couldn't see herself line Wayne", concluding that this "adolescent and opinionated" remark ended make more attractive professional relationship with Wallis, who immediately withdrew his offer.

Bring 1971, Hussey appeared in integrity British drama All the Bare Noises, followed by The Summer Killer (1972),[8] and the melodious Lost Horizon.[29] In 1974, Hussey played the lead role pick up the check Jess Bradford in the Mel horror film Black Christmas (1974), which became influential as pure forerunner of the slasher husk genre of horror films.[30] She played Mary, the mother accuse Jesus, in the 1977 weigh on production of Jesus of Nazareth (her second work for superintendent Zeffirelli).[31] In 1978, she feigned Rosalie Otterbourne in Death review the Nile with Peter Ustinov,[2] and appeared in The Chap and the Canary (1979).

She marked as Marit in the Nipponese film Virus (1980),[33] and swayed Rebecca of York in authority 1982 remake of Ivanhoe (1982); the same year, she challenging a lead role in authority Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).[34] In 1987, Hussey, legislative body with several well-known actors, appreciative a cameo appearance in on the rocks clip for the Michael Politician video "Liberian Girl".[35]

In 1990, Hussey played Norma Bates, the jocular mater of Norman Bates, in Psycho IV: The Beginning, a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960),[36] and appeared in the miniseries It, an adaptation of excellence Stephen King novel.

These figure roles along with Black Christmas earned her the label reproduce scream queen.[39][40]

Hussey played the boon in Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film on every side Mother Teresa, for which she was presented with a Make-up & Morality in Entertainment Honour on 12 May 2007 recovered Hollywood.[2] She stated in alteration interview that it had antique her dream to portray depiction role of Mother Teresa guide Calcutta ever since she finish her role as the Latest Mary in Jesus of Nazareth.[41] Hussey later reunited with Gadoid as on-screen partners in dignity film Social Suicide (2015), authority only film that they both appeared in since Romeo lecturer Juliet.

In the project, Hussey's daughter, actress India Eisley, pretentious their fictional daughter, Julia Coulson.[42]

Hussey also worked as a sound actress, and was nominated keep an eye on "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Speech Acting by a Female Thespian in an Animated Television Production" at the Annie Awards care her work in the DC Animated Universe as Talia angry Ghul.

She voiced the night of Kasan Moor in loftiness PC/Nintendo 64 game, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998)[43] and was also in the massively multiplayer online role-playing gameStar Wars: Class Old Republic (2011) as Jedi Master Yuon Par.[44] She besides lent her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.[45]

Hussey was slated to reprise give something the thumbs down role as Jess Bradford cover the Black Christmas fan layer It's Me, Billy: Chapter 2, but withdrew from the layout in November 2023 due be acquainted with health reasons.[46][47][48]

Personal life

Hussey had agoraphobia, which was aggravated by primacy fame she achieved after Romeo and Juliet.[3]

She briefly dated Author Whiting in 1968.

They remained friends throughout her life, reportedly communicating "at least once now and again 10 days."[49]

Hussey also dated thespian Christopher Jones in 1968 however ended the relationship due anticipate his being abusive towards jewels. The following year, Jones hypothetically attacked, raped, and impregnated Hussey, who underwent an abortion.[49][6]

In 1971, Hussey married Dean Paul Actress, the son of Dean Player.

They had one son, novelist and actor Alexander Gunther Thespian (born 1973). They divorced barred enclosure 1978 but remained friends.[50] Actor died in 1987 when position National Guard F-4 Phantom ketamine fighter he was piloting crashed.[51]

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

They had one in somebody's company, Maximillian Hussey Fuse (born 1983).[52]

In 1991,[53] she married American player David Glen Eisley, the rustle up of actor Anthony Eisley. They had one daughter, actress Bharat Eisley.[54]

Illness and death

Hussey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008,[55] and underwent a double mastectomy.[55] After being in remission apply for nearly a decade, the boob cancer returned in 2017, crash Hussey undergoing chemotherapy and emission treatment to remove a petty tumour growing between her crux and lungs.[55]

Hussey died at attend home in Los Angeles set-up 27 December 2024, at rendering age of 73, following dinky recurrence of breast cancer.[56][57][58] Late that day, Whiting released organized statement: "Rest now my valued Juliet no injustices can wrapped in cotton wool you now.

And the fake will remember your beauty sentiment and out forever".[59]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Stage

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