Olivia Hussey: Life and Times of Romeo and Juliet actress dies aged 73

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Olivia Hussey wears sunglasses and a white blazer on the red carpet of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival

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Actress Olivia Hussey, who was in the limelight as a teenager for her role in the 1968 di ogbonge film version of Romeo and Juliet, will not die at the age of 73.

An Argentinian-born actress who grew up in London died Friday surrounded by her loved ones, a statement she posted on her Instagram account.

Hussey bin won the best new actress Golden Globe for her role as Juliet, but decades later she sued Paramount Pictures for sexual misconduct when she was only 15 years old when she felt like a nude scene for the film.

Her most notable film role when she appeared as Mary, the mother of Jesus, for the 1977 television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth.

“As we mourn this tremendous loss, we also celebrate Olivia’s lasting impact on our lives and the industry,” the statement said.

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Leonard Whiting, as Romeo, and Olivia Hussey as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Both are in costume - she's wearing a blue knit top and blue scarf, and I'm wearing a blue-and-grey vertical striped top.

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Wetin we call dis photo, They nominated 1968 Romeo and Juliet for best film and director in the Oscars

Dem Hussey was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1951, to move to London at the age of seven, and she began studying at the drama school di Italia Conti Academy.

She is 15 when Romeo and Juliet director Franco Zeffirelli discovers on stage. She starred opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the play ‘Di Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’.

Zeffirelli bin de finder pesin, we are young enough to play the role of Juliet to become the final cinematic version of the Shakespeare play.

E cast Hussey plus 16-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo for di feem.

Di feem bin dey nominated for Oscar for best film and director. Hussey bin even missed out on an Oscar nomination for a strong year when Barbra Streisand won the top prize for Funny Girl.

But for this year’s Golden Globes, Hussey won an award for Best New Star.

Decades later, she and Whiting sued Paramount Pictures as the lead defendants say Zeffirelli—we’re dying in 2019—encourages them to feel nude scenes, even as they reassure them saying they don’t have to act nude.

The two of them are seeking damages of more than $500 million. (£417m), on top of which they accuse of suffering as they say they have the experience and income they have brought in since release.

In 1977, Hussey bin reunited with Zeffirelli for the film Jesus of Nazareth to play the role of the Virgin Mary, for whom she appeared in Death on di Nile a year later, based on Agatha Christie’s novel.

Her roles in the early slasher film Black Christmas (1974) and the TV movie Psycho IV: Di Beginning bin earned her recognition as a scream queen. Later, she plays Norman Bates’ mama for the story.

In her later years, she also began working as a voice actor, and she proves herself well in video games.

But she’s having one last reunion with her former Romeo – as she and Whiting show togeda for 2015 British women’s Social Suicide, based on Romeo and Juliet and set in an era of social media.