Where Are They Now - April 25, 2014

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You cast your votes, and it looks like readers most wanted to catch up with Olivia Hussey this week! Hussey made a name for herself in the role of Juliet in the Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. Where has her career taken the beautiful actress over the years? Let's find out...

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Olivia Hussey
Learn More About Olivia Hussey on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: April 17, 1951, Buenos Aires, Argentina

BIRTH NAME: Olivia Osuna

CLAIM TO FAME: She is known for her role as Juliet in the Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet.

FAMILY LIFE: She married actor Dean Paul Martin, son of the singer Dean Martin, in 1971. They had a son together, Alexander Gunther Martin, and divorced in 1978. In 1980, she married Japanese musician Akira Fuse, and had one son, Max (born 1983). They divorced in 1989. In 1991, she married American musician David Glen Eisley, a son of the late actor Anthony Eisley. In October 1993, she gave birth to a daughter, India Eisley, now an actress.

INFO: Hussey took her mother's maiden name as her stage name and first appeared on the London stage as Jenny in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave.

Italian director Franco Zeffirelli took note of her beauty and skill, and chose her to star as Juliet in his 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Leonard Whiting's Romeo. In 1969 she won a special David di Donatello award and the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress.

Hussey went on to appear in over 40 films, including a notable role as Mary, the mother of Jesus in the 1977 TV production of Jesus of Nazareth (her second work for director Zeffirelli).

In 2003 she played the lead in a film adaptation on the life of Mother Teresa, for which she was presented with a CAMIE award (for Character & Morality in Entertainment).

TRIVIA: Attended the Italia Conti Academy drama school for five years.

Was brought up as a Catholic.

Has suffered from agoraphobia.

Is the voice of Nintendo 64's Rogue Squadron game character Kasan Moor, according to the game credits.

In Jesus of Nazareth (1977), she played the mother of Robert Powell, who was 7 years older than her.

Was Francis Ford Coppola's initial choice for the role of Apollonia Vitelli Corleone in The Godfather (1972).

Was classmates with Sharon Osbourne.

Her father, Andreas Osuna, is a tango singer. She took her mother's maiden name, Hussey. Her parents divorced at the age of two.

WHERE IS SHE NOW: In 2011, she provided the voice of Master Yuon Par for the video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. She is set to appear as Countess Gytha in the 2015 film 1066.

WRITE TO OLIVIA HUSSEY:
Olivia Hussey
P.O. Box 2131
Crestline, CA 92325-2131

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CREDITS:

2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video Game)...Master Yuon Par / Additional Voices (voice)

2008 Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves...Mrs. Duncan

2008 Three Priests...Rachel

2007 Tortilla Heaven...Petra

2006 Seven Days of Grace...Jewel

2005 Headspace...Dr. Karen Murphy

2005 Island Prey...Catherine Gaits

2003 Madre Teresa (TV Movie)...Mother Teresa

2002 El grito...Laura

2000 Star Wars: Force Commander (Video Game)...AT-AA Driver / Abridon Refugee 2 (voice)

2000 Batman Beyond (TV Series)...Talia
Out of the Past (2000)

1999 Superman (TV Series)...Talia al Ghul
The Demon Reborn (1999)

1999 Shame, Shame, Shame...The Therapist

1998 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (Video Game)...Kasan Moor (voice)

1998 The Gardener...Mrs. Carter

1998 Pinky and the Brain (TV Series)...Queen
Brainie the Poo/Melancholy Brain (1998)

1997 Boy Meets World (TV Series)...Aunt Prudence Curtis
A Long Walk to Pittsburgh: Part 2 (1997)

1996 Shame, Shame, Shame

1996 The Dark Mist...The Voice of the Ancients (voice)

1996 Dead Man's Island (TV Movie)...Rosie, the housemaid

1995 Bad English I: Tales of a Son of a Brit

1995 Ice Cream Man...Nurse Wharton

1994/I Save Me...Gail

1994 Lonesome Dove: The Series (TV Series)...Olivia Jessup

1993 Quest of the Delta Knights (Video)...The Mannerjay

1990 It (TV Mini-Series)...Audra Denbrough

1990 Psycho IV: The Beginning (TV Movie)...Norma Bates

1990 Sheng zhan feng yun...Rebecca Eche

1989 The Jeweller's Shop...Thérèse

1989 Michael Jackson: Liberian Girl (Video short)

1987 Distortions...Amy Marks

1985 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)...Kitty Trumbull
Sing a Song of Murder (1985)

1985 The Corsican Brothers (TV Movie)...Annamarie de Guidice

1984 The Last Days of Pompeii (TV Mini-Series)...Ione

1982 Escape 2000...Chris Walters

1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie)...Rebecca

1980 Day of Resurrection...Marit

1980 The Man with Bogart's Face...Elsa

1979 The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (TV Movie)...Esther

1978 The Pirate (TV Movie)...Leila

1978 The Cat and the Canary...Cicily Young

1978 Death on the Nile...Rosalie Otterbourne

1978 The Bastard (TV Movie)...Alicia

1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series)...Virgin Mary

1974 Black Christmas...Jess

1973 Lost Horizon...Maria

1972 Summertime Killer...Tania Scarlotti

1971 H-Bomb...Erica

1971 All the Right Noises...Val

1968 Romeo and Juliet...Juliet

1966 Take a Sapphire (TV Movie)...Child (uncredited)

1965 Cup Fever...Jinny - child

1965 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita...Donna

1964 Drama 61-67 (TV Series)...Mrs. Ken's daughter
Studio '64: The Crunch (1964)

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