Her passionate portrayal of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation won enduring acclaim. In 2023, she sued over the circumstances of a nude scene. By Alex Traub Olivia Hussey, whose ...

What did our critic think of ROMEO AND JULIET at Canadian Stage?The romantic tragedy and big emotions of Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers are difficult to successfully present in an ...

Romeo And Juliet actor Leonard Whiting has paid tribute to his co-star Olivia Hussey following her death aged 73, saying “the world will remember your beauty inside and out forever”.

The Berkshires-based company uses joy to highlight the youth stuck at the center of one of Shakespeare's most famous ...

Romeo is not in a good mood -- in a word, he is suicidal and expects to "expire the term of a despised life." Instead, he spies Juliet at the party, with whom he falls in love on the spot.

Not least in the final scene where we see Juliet, alive, in a burial vault, sitting in a row with Mercutio and Tybalt, with the clear implication that she is waiting to join the ranks of the undead.

Quite simply, this is an imaginative production with the story told as Shakespeare would have interpreted many elements today ...

Olivia Hussey Eisley, the actress who shot to fame as one of the title characters in Franco Zeffirelli's controversial 'Romeo and Juliet,' died peacefully today.

Olivia Hussey Eisley, star of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet” and the slasher classic “Black Christmas,” has died, according to a post on her Instagram page. She was 73.

Olivia Hussey Eisley, star of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet” and the slasher classic “Black Christmas,” has died, according to a post on her Instagram page. She was 73.