Olivia Hussey, the star that starred as a teen Juliet in the 1968 movie “Romeo and Juliet,” has actually passed away, her family members stated on social media sites
LONDON– Olivia Hussey, the star that starred as a teen Juliet in the 1968 movie “Romeo and Juliet,” has actually passed away, her family members stated on social media sites Saturday. She was 73.
Hussey passed away on Friday, “quietly in the house bordered by her enjoyed ones,” a declaration published to her Instagram account stated.
Hussey was 15 when supervisor Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adjustment of the William Shakespeare disaster after finding her onstage in the play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,” which additionally starred Vanessa Redgrave.
” Romeo and Juliet” won 2 Oscars and Hussey won a Golden World for finest brand-new starlet for her component as Juliet, contrary British star Leonard Whiting, that was 16 at the time.
Years later on Hussey and Whiting brought a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures declaring sexual assault, unwanted sexual advances and fraudulence over naked scenes in the movie.
They affirmed that they were originally informed they would certainly use flesh-colored underwears in a room scene, yet on the day of the shoot Zeffirelli informed both they would certainly use just body make-up which the video camera would certainly be placed in such a way that would certainly disappoint nakedness. They affirmed they were recorded in the naked without their understanding.
The case was dismissed by a Los Angeles Region court in 2023, that discovered their representation can not be thought about kid porn and both submitted their insurance claim far too late.
Hussey was born upon April 17, 1951, in Bueno Aires, Argentina, and transferred to London as a youngster.
She additionally starred as Mary, mom of Jesus, in the 1977 tv collection “Jesus of Nazareth,” and in the 1978 adjustment of Agatha Christie’s “Fatality on the Nile.”
She is endured by her spouse, David Glen Eisley, her 3 youngsters and a grand son.
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