Actress Olivia Hershey (Hussey), who gained worldwide popularity for her role as innocent Juliet in the movie ‘Romeo and Juliet’, passed away on the 27th (local time).
According to American media, Olivia Hershey died at the age of 73 at her home in California on the 27th with her family watching. It has been reported that Hashi has been suffering from cancer.
Actress Olivia Hershey (Hotsey). Olivia Hussey homepage capture
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1951 to an Argentinian father and an English mother, he moved to England and began his acting career in earnest. The representative work is the film ‘Romeo and Juliet’, adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy and directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968. At the time, he was only 15 years old. For this work, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best New Artist in 1969. Afterwards, he appeared in ‘Black Christmas’, which is considered a classic horror film, as well as ‘Death on the Nile’, ‘Ivanhoe’, and ‘Mother Teresa’.
Due to his great success as a teenager, the deceased wandered for a while. “Too much happened too fast,” he said in a 2018 People magazine interview. “He became a superstar overnight and I wasn’t ready,” he recalled. In 2022, when the deceased was 71 years old, he and Leonard Whiting, the actor who played opposite him in Romeo and Juliet, belatedly filed a lawsuit against the film company Paramount. At the time, a lawsuit was filed claiming damages of $500 million (approximately KRW 640 billion at the time), claiming that a bed scene in the movie was filmed naked without prior notice, but it was dismissed the following year.
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