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Long dark flowing hair



Sparkling green eyes



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Her son nearly drowned in a backyard swimming pool in 1985. The 911 emergency operator talked her and her husband through the rescue.





Has one son with Akira Fuse : Max Fuse (born 1983).

Suffered from agoraphobia, treated it with meditation instead of medication.





Clashed with Bette Davis on the set of Tod auf dem Nil (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.

Her father, Andreas Osuna, is a tango singer. She took her mother's maiden name, Hussey. Her parents divorced at the age of two.





For one scene in Romeo und Julia (1968), director Franco Zeffirelli had to get special permission to show her topless.



She was not legally able to attend the London premiere of Romeo und Julia (1968) because she was under 18 and the film contained a nude scene--even though she was the one who was nude.



Was classmates with Sharon Osbourne



In Jesus von Nazareth (1977), she played the mother of Robert Powell , who was actually seven years older than her.

Her three children were born ten years apart--1973, 1983 and 1993.



Favorite horror movie is Psycho (1960). She would later go on to play Norma Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990).





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).

Her parents considered naming her Victoria after the city in eastern Argentina that her father, Osvaldo Ribó, was born in.



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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.



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