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Olivia Hussey

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Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey, 2007
Born	April 17, 1951 (1951-04-17) (age 56) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse(s)	Dean Paul Martin (1971-1978), Akira Fuse (1980-1989), David Glen Eisley (1991-present)

Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna on April 17, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Anglo-Argentine actress perhaps best known for her Golden Globe-winning role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early Life

Olivia was born to Andreas Osuna (aka Isvaldo Ribo), an Argentine opera and tango singer and his English wife Joy Hussey. When she was seven years old, Olivia and her younger brother went with their mother to live in England, where she attended the Italia Conti Academy drama school for five years.

Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet, 1968

[edit] Career

She appeared on the London stage as Jenny in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" opposite Vanessa Redgrave, where Franco Zeffirelli first saw her. Chosen out of 500 other actresses, she appeared in her first starring role as Juliet in Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Leonard Whiting's Romeo. In 1969, she won a David di Donatello award for Best Actress.

She has appeared in over 40 films in her career. Notable roles include Jessica Bradford in the 1974 Canadian horror movie Black Christmas, Mary, the mother of Jesus in the 1977 Zeffirelli TV production of Jesus of Nazareth, and as Rosalie Otterbourne in Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov. one of her other great performances was as Rebecca of York in the 1982 remake of Ivanhoe made for TV. In 2003, Hussey played the lead in a film adaptation on the life of Mother Teresa. She is known for her natural beauty, reportedly wearing little or no makeup in her roles.

[edit] Personal life

Hussey was married first to actor Dean Paul Martin (son of the famous Rat Pack singer/actor, Dean Martin) from 1971 until 1978. They had a son, Alexander Dean Martin, in 1973. In 1980 she married Japanese musician Akira Fuse and bore one son, Maximillian Fuse. After their divorce in 1989 Hussey married a third time to David Glen Eisley, an American musician. Together they had Hussey's third child, daughter India Eisley who is also an aspiring young actress.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2007	Tortilla Heaven	Petra
2006	Seven Days of Grace	Jewel
2005	Headspace	Dr. Karen Murphy
2001	Island Prey	Catherine Gaits
2000	El Grito	Laura
1998	Shame, Shame, Shame	Therapist
	The Gardener	Mrs. Carter
1996	The Dark Mist	Voice of the Ancients
1995	Bad English I: Tales of a Son of a Brit
	Ice Cream Man	Nurse Wharton
1993	Save Me	Gail
1990	Sheng zhan feng yun	Rebecca Eche
1989	The Jeweller's Shop	Thérèse
1987	Distortions	Amy Marks
1982	Turkey Shoot	Chris Walters
1980	The Man with Bogart's Face	Elsa
	Virus	Marit
1979	The Cat and the Canary	Cicily Young
1978	Death on the Nile	Rosalie Otterbourne
1974	Black Christmas	Jessica Bradford
1973	Lost Horizon	Maria
1972	Verano para matar, Un	Tania Scarlotti
1971	H-Bomb
1969	All the Right Noises	Val
1968	Romeo and Juliet	Juliet	Golden Globe Award (won) Golden Laurel (nominated)
1965	Cup Fever	Jinny- child
	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita	Donna

[edit] Television

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2003	Mother Teresa	Mother Teresa
2000	Batman Beyond	Talia al Ghul	Annie Awards (nominated) Episode: Out of the Past
1999	Superman: The Animated Series	Talia al Ghul	Episode: The Demon Reborn
1998	Pinky and the Brain	Queen	Episode: The Megalomaniacal Adventures of Brainie the Poo Episode: Melancholy Brain
1997	Boy Meets World	Aunt Prudence Curtis	Episode: A Long Walk To Pittsburgh (Part 2)
1996	Dead Man's Island	Rosie, the housemaid
1994	Lonesome Dove: The Series	Olivia Jessup	Episode: Where the Heart Is Episode: Law and Order Episode: Firebrand
1990	It	Audra Phillips Denbrough
1990	Psycho IV: The Beginning	Norma Bates
1985	Murder, She Wrote	Kitty Trumbull	Episode: Sing a Song of Murder
	The Corsican Brothers	Annamarie de Guidice
1984	The Last Days of Pompeii	Ione
1982	Ivanhoe	Rebecca
1979	The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther	Esther
1978	The Pirate	Leila
	The Bastard	Alicia
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Mary, the mother of Jesus
1964	The Crunch	Mrs. Ken's daughter

[edit] Voice Credits

She has been lauded by many for her unique voice. Her husband suggested she try out for voice work in animation. She has a handful of notable credits 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 Batman Beyond. She has also lent her voice for several video games.

• Star Wars: Force Commander (2000) (VG) as AT-AA Driver/Abridon Refugee 2.
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998) (VG) as Kasan Moor