Olivia Hussey, who starred as a teenage Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 movie Romeo and Juliet, garnering her a Golden Globe, died peacefully at her house on Friday at age 73, her household has introduced.
“Olivia was a exceptional particular person whose heat, knowledge, and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her,” her household mentioned in an announcement posted to her Instagram account. “Olivia lived a life filled with ardour, love, and dedication to the humanities, spirituality, and kindness in direction of animals.
“As we grieve this immense loss, we additionally rejoice Olivia’s enduring affect on our lives and the business.”
Buenos Aires-born Hussey was 15 when she and her co-lead Leonard Whiting starred within the Oscar-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy.
In 2023, the 2 actors filed a lawsuit towards the studio alleging little one abuse over a controversial nude scene that includes Hussey and Whiting, who have been 15 and 16 respectively on the time.
A choose dismissed the lawsuit later that yr, saying there had been no persuasive argument as to the movie being “sufficiently sexually suggestive as a matter of regulation to be held conclusively unlawful”.
Romeo and Juliet was a field workplace hit on the time and acquired 4 Oscar nominations, successful two, for finest cinematography and finest costume design.
Hussey, who acquired a “new star of the yr” Golden Globe for her efficiency, would later star within the 1974 slasher movie Black Christmas and the 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Dying on the Nile, amongst different tasks.
She is survived by her husband, David Eisley, their three kids and a grandchild.
With Agence France-Presse
