Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna) is an Argentine-British actress born on April 17, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She is best known as Juliet in the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, Jess in Black Christmas (1974), Mary the mother of Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth, and Rebecca in the 1982 version of Ivanhoe, and also played Norma Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning.
Actress India Eisley is her daughter. They appeared together in Headspace (2005) and Social Suicide (2015), with Hussey as her mother.
Tropes
- Casting Gag: In Social Suicide, a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, she played Julia's (the Juliet character) mother. Her former co-star from the 1968 film, Leonard Whiting, played her husband, Julia's father (her daughter India Eisley played Julia-the modern Juliet-herself).
- Ms. Fanservice: Hussey became famous as Juliet in 1968, briefly appearing topless, while some of her later roles had this too, well into her 50s.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She has these looks.
