Hussey debuted with the 1965 movie The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. She dated Leonard Whiting briefly in 1967 and was involved with actor Christopher Jones from 1968 to 1969. According to Variety ...

Hussey was cast in "Romeo and Juliet" at age 15 opposite Leonard Whiting, who was 16 at the time, as Romeo. The role won her a Golden Globe for new star of the year — actress in 1969, and the film ...

Leonard Whiting, best known for his iconic role as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1968), has remained a significant figure in film and television. Alongside co-star Olivia Hussey, Whiting’s ...

Her last official film credit was in 2015, where she appeared opposite Whiting in Social Suicides, which starred her daughter ...

Leonard Whiting has shared a moving tribute to his Romeo and Juliet (1968) co-star Olivia Hussey Eisley, who died yesterday at the age of 73. “Olivia, we have shared so much since we were two ...

“But Miss Hussey,” joked her film Romeo, British actor Leonard Whiting, “what a way to speak of the immortal bard.” Zeffirelli had seen Ms. Hussey in a 1966 stage adaptation of Muriel ...

Why do some Shakespearean films flop’eth, whilst others shine in pop culture like the morn’s first light? Or something to that effect: I’m not attempting iambic pentameter. After the Chronicle broke ...

Hussey won a Golden Globe for the Most Promising Female Newcomer in the role but she wasn’t happy with how production handled the sensitive scenes where Eisley and Whiting — who were 15 and 16 ...

Olivia Hussey, who starred as a teenage Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, has died, her family said ...

Olivia Hussey Eisley, star of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet” and the slasher classic “Black Christmas,” has died, according ...

FILE - "Romeo and Juliette" movie director Franco Zeffirelli, left, actors Olivia Hussey, center, and Leonard Whiting are seen after the Parisian premiere of the film in Paris on Sept. 25 ...