Olivia Hussey Net Worth

Olivia Hussey's Quotes

• Have the confidence to be your own person.
• [interview in "Daily Telegraph", March 2002] I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England.
• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl. nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

Interesting Facts about Olivia Hussey

1. Has one daughter with David Glen Eisley: India Eisley.
2. Her son nearly drowned in a backyard swimming pool in 1985. The 911 emergency operator talked her and her husband through the rescue.
3. Has one son with Dean Paul Martin: Alexander Martin.
4. Has one son with Akira Fuse: Max Fuse (born 1983).
5. Suffered from agoraphobia, treated it with meditation instead of medication.
6. Clashed with Bette Davis on the set of Death on the Nile (1978) when the cranky, older star complained about her playing "East Indian chants" on her dressing room stereo at six in the morning. They did not speak for the rest of the filming.
7. Her father, Andreas Osuna, is a tango singer. She took her mother's maiden name, Hussey. Her parents divorced at the age of two.
8. For one scene in Romeo and Juliet (1968), director Franco Zeffirelli had to get special permission to show her topless.
9. She was not legally able to attend the London premiere of Romeo and Juliet (1968) because she was under 18 and the film contained a nude scene--even though she was the one who was nude.
10. Was classmates with Sharon Osbourne.
11. Many of her more recent films have experienced significant delays in their releases. Tortilla Heaven (2007) was released in 2007 after completion in 2000. Seven Days of Grace (2006) was released on DVD in 2007 after it was completed in 1996. Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves (2008) was completed in 2006 and released in 2008.
12. Was Francis Ford Coppola's initial choice for the role of Apollonia Vitelli Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
13. In Jesus of Nazareth (1977), she played the mother of Robert Powell, who was actually seven years older than her.
14. Her three children were born ten years apart--1973, 1983 and 1993.
15. Sister-in-law of Jonathan Erickson Eisley, Nan R. Eisley and Amanda Eisley.
16. Daughter-in-law of Anthony Eisley.
17. Favorite horror movie is Psycho (1960). She would later go on to play Norma Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990).
18. Over the years British actress Lynne Frederick has often been compared to Olivia. Although the two never met or had any correspondence (as Hussey confirmed via Twitter in December of 2016) there are many similarities between them. For example, both are British, have green eyes, long hair, soft facial features, and are undoubtedly among the most beautiful actress of their time. Frederick was even described as "the Olivia Hussey of her day" in one of her public obituaries (ironically, Frederick was only three years younger and born in the same generation as Hussey).
19. Her parents considered naming her Victoria after the city in eastern Argentina that her father, Osvaldo Ribó, was born in.
20. Was on Roald Dahl's wish list for the role of The Grand High Witch in The Witches (1990). Anjelica Huston later got the role.