Olivia Hussey, who played a teenage
Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Golden Globe-winning film
'Romeo and Juliet,' has died at the age of 73, her family
announced.
"Olivia was an extraordinary person whose warmth, wisdom and
pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her," the
actress's family said in a statement posted on Instagram.
Born in Buenos Aires, Hussey was 15 when she and co-star Leonard
Whiting starred in the Oscar-winning adaptation of William
Shakespeare's tragedy.
Last year, the two actors filed a lawsuit against the studio
accusing it of child abuse over a controversial nude scene in
which they appeared, both of them being minors at the time.
The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge.
Hussey, who received a Golden Globe for "New Star of the Year"
for her portrayal of Juliet, would later star in the 1974
slasher film "A Red Christmas" and the 1978 adaptation of Agatha
Christie's "Death on the Nile," among other films.
She is survived by her husband David Eisley, their three
children, and a grandson.
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