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Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is an English film, stage, and television actress. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a David di Donatello Award. The daughter of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna, Hussey was born in Buenos Aires but spent most of her early life in her mother's native England. She aspired to become an actress at a young age and studied drama for five years at London's Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

Olivia Hussey
Hussey c. 1974
Born	Olivia Osuna (1951-04-17) 17 April 1951 (age 71) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1964–present
Spouse(s)	Dean Paul Martin ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1978)​ Akira Fuse ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1989)​ David Glen Eisley ​ ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	3, including India Eisley
Website	oliviahussey.com

Hussey began acting professionally as an adolescent. She 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. Hussey received widespread acclaim and international recognition for her performance.

In 1974, she appeared as the lead character Jess Bradford in the cult slasher film Black Christmas. This role and her subsequent horror films earned her the title of scream queen.[1][2][3] She reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) as Mary and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978). She appeared in several international productions throughout the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian dystopian action film Turkey Shoot (1982). She appeared in two made-for-television horror productions: Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King's It, both first screened in 1990.

In addition to screen acting, Hussey has worked as a voice actress, providing voice roles in multiple Star Wars video games, including Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Early life

Hussey was born Olivia Osuna on 17 April 1951[4] in Buenos Aires, Argentina,[5] the first child of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna (who performed under the stage name Osvaldo Ribó), and Joy (née Hussey), a legal secretary originally from England.[6] Her parents were both Roman Catholics, and she was raised in that denomination.[7] "My mother was a devout Catholic," Hussey recalled. "I grew up with a mini-altar at home that she had; a candle was always alight on it. She always had a great love for God, and she instilled that in me."[7] When Hussey was two years old, her parents separated.

Hussey was fascinated by acting from a young age, and as a child, would dress herself and pretend to be a nun.[8] At the age of seven, she moved with her mother and younger brother to London, where she spent the remainder of her early life.[6] There, Hussey's mother enrolled her in the Italia Conti Academy drama school, which she attended for five years.[9] At 13, she began acting professionally on the stage.[6]

Career

1968–1969: Career beginnings and Romeo and Juliet

Assuming her mother's maiden name as her stage name, Hussey appeared on the London stage in a West End production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playing the role of Jenny opposite Vanessa Redgrave.[10] During the run of this play, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli noticed her because "she was the only choice mature enough with experience and natural beauty to play Juliet while still looking 14."[11] At 15,[12] she was chosen out of 500 actresses to star as Juliet in Zeffirelli's film version of Romeo and Juliet (1968), opposite 16-year-old Leonard Whiting's Romeo.[13][14] Prior to her role in Romeo and Juliet, she had appeared in minor roles in two films: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita and Cup Fever (both 1965), and an episode of the television series Drama (1964).[15] In 1969, she won a special David di Donatello Award and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress for her performance in Romeo and Juliet.[16]

After the success of Romeo and Juliet, Hollywood producer Hal B. Wallis offered her the title role in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) and the co-starring role with John Wayne in True Grit (1969).[17] In her 2018 memoir Hussey stated that she had "mumbled something about being interested in "Anne of the Thousand Days" but added that she "couldn't see herself with Wayne". She claims that this "adolescent and opinionated" remark inevitably ended her professional relationship with Wallis, and he immediately withdrew his offer from her. "It had taken me less than a minute to talk my way out of it", Hussey stated. [18]

1970–2000: Black Christmas and continued acting

In 1971, she appeared in the British drama All the Right Noises, followed by the crime film The Summertime Killer (1972),[15] and the musical Lost Horizon (1973), opposite Liv Ullmann, John Gielgud, and Sally Kellerman.[19] In 1974, she played the leading role of Jess Bradford in the Canadian horror film Black Christmas (1974), which became influential as a forerunner of the slasher film genre of horror films. She played Mary, the mother of Jesus, in the 1977 television production of Jesus of Nazareth (her second work for director Zeffirelli).[20] In 1978, she played Rosalie Otterbourne in Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov,[5] and appeared in The Cat and the Canary (1979).[21] She also starred as Marit in the Japanese film Virus (1980),[22] and played Rebecca of York in the 1982 remake of Ivanhoe (1982); the same year, she had a lead role in the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot (1982).[23]

In 1987, Hussey appeared in a clip for the Michael Jackson video Liberian Girl, among others, who also included Steven Spielberg, John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Whoopi Goldberg, Lou Ferrigno, and Billy Dee Williams.[24] In 1990, 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 (1960),[25][26] and in the miniseries It, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel.[27]

2000–present: Later films and voice work

Hussey played the lead in Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film about Mother Teresa, for which she was presented with a Character & Morality in Entertainment Award on 12 May 2007 in Hollywood.[5] She 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.[28] Hussey and Leonard Whiting reunited as on-screen partners in the film Social Suicide (2015), the only film that they both appeared in since Romeo and Juliet (1968). In the project, Hussey's daughter, actress India Eisley, played their fictional daughter, Julia Coulson.[29]

Hussey has also 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. She voiced the character of Kasan Moor in the PC/Nintendo 64 game, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998)[30] and was also in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) as Jedi Master Yuon Par.[31] She also lent her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.

Personal life

Hussey quit acting for two years following the success of Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, due to an ongoing struggle with agoraphobia.[6] As teenagers, she and Whiting dated for a brief period following the production of the film and have remained friends since, reportedly speaking "at least once every ten days."[32]

In 1971, she married actor Dean Paul Martin, the son of singer Dean Martin, on the day of her twentieth birthday. They had a son, Alexander Gunther Martin (who became an actor), in 1973, before divorcing in 1978.[33] Dean Paul Martin died in 1987, when his National Guard F-4 Phantom jet fighter crashed in California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm.[34]

In 1980, Hussey married Japanese singer Akira Fuse in two ceremonies: one at home in Los Angeles, and a second, an Indian wedding in Miami. She gave birth to their son Max in 1983 and divorced Fuse in 1989. In 1991, she married the American rock musician David Glen Eisley, the son of an actor Anthony Eisley. In October 1993, she gave birth to their daughter, India Eisley, also an actress.

Hussey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008.[35] Rather than pursuing chemotherapy or radiation, she underwent a double mastectomy to treat the cancer.[35] After being in remission for nearly a decade, Hussey learned in 2018 that the breast cancer had returned when a small tumour was discovered growing between her heart and lungs.[35] She opted to use radiation and chemotherapy to treat the tumour, stating: "I'd refused chemotherapy and radiation treatment ten years ago, wanting to avoid those poisons, but last year I had no choice, and they saved my life. The tumour shrank, I'm hoping to the size of a pea, and I'm doing well now. I'm healthy and happy."[35]

Hussey's memoir, The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Romeo and Juliet, was released on 31 July 2018.[36]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita	Donna
1965	Cup Fever	Jinny
1968	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet
1971	All the Right Noises	Val
1971	H-Bomb	Erica
1972	The Summertime Killer	Tania Scarlotti
1973	Lost Horizon	Maria
1974	Black Christmas	Jess Bradford
1978	Death on the Nile	Rosalie Otterbourne
1979	The Cat and the Canary	Cicily Young
1980	Virus	Marit
1980	The Man with Bogart's Face	Elsa
1982	Turkey Shoot	Chris Walters
1987	Distortions	Amy Marks
1989	The Jeweller's Shop	Thérèse
1990	Undeclared War	Rebecca Eche
1993	Quest of the Delta Knights	The Mannerjay
1994	Save Me	Gail
1995	Ice Cream Man	Nurse Wharton
1995	Bad English I: Tales of a Son of a Brit
1996	The Lord Protector: The Dark Mist	Voice of the Ancients (Voice)
1998	The Gardener	Mrs. Carter
1998	Shame, Shame, Shame	Therapist
2000	Bloody Proof	Laura
2001	Island Prey	Catherine Gaits
2003	Mother Teresa	Mother Teresa
2005	Headspace	Dr. Karen Murphy
2006	Seven Days of Grace	Jewel
2007	Tortilla Heaven	Petra
2008	Three Priests	Rachel
2008	I Am Somebody: No Chance in Hell	Mrs. Duncan
2015	Social Suicide	Julia's Mother

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Drama 61-67	Mrs. Ken's daughter	Episode: "Studio '64 – The Crunch"
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Mary, mother of Jesus	Miniseries
1978	The Bastard	Alicia	Miniseries
1978	The Pirate	Leila	Television film
1979	The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther	Esther	Television film
1982	Ivanhoe	Rebecca	Television film
1984	The Last Days of Pompeii	Ione	Miniseries
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Kitty Trumbull	Episode: "Sing a Song of Murder"
1985	The Corsican Brothers	Annamarie de Guidice	Television film
1990	Psycho IV: The Beginning	Norma Bates	Television film
1990	It	Audra Phillips Denbrough	Miniseries
1994	Lonesome Dove: The Series	Olivia Jessup	3 episodes
1996	Dead Man's Island	Rosie, the housemaid	Television film
1997	Boy Meets World	Prudence Curtis	Episode: "A Long Walk To Pittsburgh (Part 2)"
1998	Pinky and the Brain	Queen (Voice)	2 episodes
1999	Superman: The Animated Series	Talia (Voice)	Episode: "The Demon Reborn"
2000	Batman Beyond	"Talia" (Voice)	Episode: "Out of the Past"
2003	Mother Teresa of Calcutta	Mother Teresa	Television film

Video games

Year	Title	Role
1998	Star Wars: Rogue Squadron	Kasan Moor
2000	Star Wars: Force Commander	AT-AA Driver, Abridon Refugee 2
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Jedi Master Yuon Par

Stage credits

Year	Title	Role	Location	Ref.
1966	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Jenny	Wyndham's Theatre	[37]

Awards and nominations

Award/association	Category	Year	Work	Result	Ref.
ALMA Awards	Outstanding Performance of a Lead Latino/a Cast in a Motion Picture (shared with the cast)	2008	Tortilla Heaven	Nominated
Annie Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production	2001	Batman Beyond	Nominated
Golden Globe Awards	Most Promising Newcomer – Female	1969	Romeo and Juliet	Won
David di Donatello Awards	Golden Plate Award (alongside Leonard Whiting)	1969		Won
Laurel Awards	Female New Face	1970		Nominated

References

Sources

External links

• Official website
• Olivia Hussey at IMDb
• Olivia Hussey at AllMovie
• Olivia Hussey at the British Film Institute

На других языках

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[de] Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey (geboren als Olivia Osuna; * 17. April 1951 in Buenos Aires) ist eine britische Schauspielerin. Sie spielte in Franco Zeffirellis Verfilmung der Shakespeare-Tragödie Romeo und Julia von 1968 die Rolle der Julia und erhielt dafür den Golden Globe als beste Nachwuchsdarstellerin.

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- [en] Olivia Hussey

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[es] Olivia Hussey

Olivia Hussey (nacida Olivia Osuna Hussey; 17 de abril de 1951) es una actriz de cine y televisión inglesa. Reconocida por su protagonismo en Romeo y Julieta (1968) de Franco Zeffirelli. También, por su papel de María en Jesús de Nazareth (1977) y de la Madre Teresa en la película italiana Madre Teresa (2003).

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[ru] Хасси, Оливия

Оли́вия Ха́сси (англ. Olivia Hussey, урожд. Оливия Осуна (исп. Olivia Osuna); род. 17 апреля 1951, Буэнос-Айрес, Аргентина) — британская киноактриса.

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