27 Facts About Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey was born on Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951 and is an English film, stage, and television actress.

Olivia Hussey's awards include a Golden Globe Award and a David di Donatello Award.

The daughter of Argentine opera singer Andres Osuna, Hussey was born in Buenos Aires and spent most of her early life in her mother's native England.

Olivia Hussey aspired to become an actress at a young age and studied drama for five years at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

Olivia Hussey appeared in a 1966 London production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave; this led to her being scouted for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

Olivia Hussey received widespread acclaim and international recognition for her performance.

Olivia Hussey reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth as Mary and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile.

Olivia Hussey appeared in several international productions throughout the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus and the Australian dystopian action film Turkey Shoot.

Olivia Hussey appeared in two made-for-television horror productions: Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King's It, both first screened in 1990.

Olivia Hussey's parents were both Roman Catholics, and she was raised in that denomination.

Olivia Hussey always had a great love for God, and she instilled that in me.

Olivia Hussey was fascinated by acting from a young age, and as a child, would dress herself and pretend to be a nun.

At 15, Olivia Hussey was chosen out of 500 actresses to star as Juliet in Zeffirelli's film version of Romeo and Juliet, opposite 16-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo.

Olivia Hussey's performance won her a special David di Donatello Award and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress in 1969.

Olivia Hussey stated that this "adolescent and opinionated" remark inevitably ended her professional relationship with Wallis, and he immediately withdrew his offer from her, explaining, "It had taken me less than a minute to talk my way out of it".

Olivia Hussey played Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the 1977 television production of Jesus of Nazareth.

Olivia Hussey starred as Marit in the Japanese film Virus, and played Rebecca of York in the 1982 remake of Ivanhoe ; the same year, she had a lead role in the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot.

In 1990, Olivia Hussey appeared in two horror projects, playing Norma Bates, the mother of Norman Bates, in Psycho IV: The Beginning, a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and in the miniseries It, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel.

Olivia Hussey stated in an interview that it had been her dream and wish to portray the role of Mother Teresa of Calcutta since she finished her role as the Virgin Mary in Jesus of Nazareth.

Olivia Hussey has worked as a voice actress, and was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production" at the Annie Awards for her work in the DC animated universe, as Talia, daughter of Ra's al Ghul.

Olivia Hussey lent her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.

Olivia Hussey has agoraphobia, which was aggravated by the fame she achieved after Romeo and Juliet.

Olivia Hussey had dated Jones in 1968 but ended the relationship because, she says, he was physically abusive toward her.

Olivia Hussey's ex-husband died in 1987, when the National Guard F-4 Phantom jet fighter he was piloting unaccountably crashed into the snow capped San Bernardino Mountains in California.

From 1980 until their 1989 divorce, Olivia Hussey was married to Japanese singer Akira Fuse.

Olivia Hussey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, and underwent a double mastectomy to treat the cancer.

Hussey's memoir, The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Romeo and Juliet, was published on 31 July 2018.