ACTOR
Olivia Hussey
- Known for
- Black Christmas (1974), Romeo and Juliet (1968), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990), Death on the Nile (1978)
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Olivia Hussey is an actor best known for Black Christmas, Romeo and Juliet and Psycho IV: The Beginning.
All facts (23)
- #001
Olivia Hussey's three children were born ten years apart: in 1973, 1983 and 1993.
- #002
In 1985, her son nearly drowned in the backyard swimming pool. A 911 emergency operator talked her and her husband through the rescue.
- #003
Her family considered naming her Victoria, after the city in eastern Argentina where her father, Osvaldo Ribó, was born. After seeing a poster of Olivia de Havilland starring in The Heiress (1949) at a local cinema in Buenos Aires, they decided to name her after the film star.
- #004
Her father, Andreas Osuna, is a tango singer. She took Hussey, her mother's maiden name. Her parents divorced when she was two years old.
- #005
She was offered the role of Alex in Fatal Attraction (1987). Hussey, who also works as an animal rights activist, read the script and was so upset by the scene with the rabbit in the boiling pot that she turned the role down immediately.
- #006
She was Francis Ford Coppola's first choice for the role of Apollonia Vitelli Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
- #007
Olivia Hussey has stated that she is agoraphobic and treated it with meditation rather than medication.
- #008
Her favorite horror film is Psycho (1960). She would later go on to play Norma Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990).
- #009
On the set of Death on the Nile (1978), she clashed with Bette Davis when the cantankerous old star complained that she was playing "East Indian chants" on the stereo in her dressing room at six in the morning. They did not speak for the rest of the shoot.
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For her role in Death on the Nile (1978), she cut her trademark waist-length black hair into a 1920s flapper style.
- #011
She was named after Olivia de Havilland.
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She has a son with Dean Paul Martin: Alexander Martin.
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Olivia Hussey has a daughter with David Glen Eisley: India Eisley.
- #014
Hussey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and underwent a double mastectomy. After remaining in remission for about ten years, the breast cancer returned in 2017, and she received chemotherapy and radiation treatment to remove a small tumor growing between her heart and lungs.
- #015
She was on Roald Dahl's wish list for the role of the Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990). Anjelica Huston later took the role.
- #016
She has a son with Akira Fuse: Max Fuse (born 1983).
- #017
She was offered the role of Al Pacino's sister in Scarface (1983), but delays in the production and her pregnancy prevented her from taking the part.
- #018
She is a passionate animal rights activist.
- #019
She was chosen from among 500 applicants to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (1968).
- #020
She was considered for the role of Tess McGill in Working Girl (1988), but Melanie Griffith was cast instead and was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.
- #021
She is the sister-in-law of Jonathan Erickson Eisley, Nan R. Eisley and Amanda Eisley.
- #022
In 1987, Hussey played a small role in a video for Michael Jackson's "Liberian Girl," alongside several well-known actors.
- #023
She has a brother born in 1952.
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