page_title: Olivia Hussey
section_title: Post-2000 and voice work
hierarchical_section_title: Olivia Hussey / Career / Post-2000 and voice work
caption_attribution_description: March 10, 2008: Cinema City Film Festival
context_page_description: Olivia Hussey is an English actress. After appearing in theatre in London, Hussey was chosen to play the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Romeo and Juliet. She won a Golden Globe and the David di Donatello Award for her performance, and gained international recognition.
  In 1974, she appeared as the lead character, Jess Bradford, in the cult slasher film Black Christmas. She reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth, as Mary, mother of Jesus, and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile. She appeared in several international productions throughout the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus, and the Australian horror film Turkey Shoot. She appeared in two made-for-television horror productions: Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King's It, both first screened in 1990.
  In addition to screen acting, Hussey has worked as a voice actress, providing voice roles in multiple Star Wars video games, including Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
context_section_description: Hussey played the lead in Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2003), a biographical film about Mother Teresa, for which she was presented with a Character & Morality in Entertainment Award on 12 May 2007 in Hollywood. She stated in an interview that it had been her dream and wish to portray the role of Mother Teresa of Calcutta since she finished her role as the Virgin Mary in Jesus of Nazareth. Hussey and Leonard Whiting reunited as on-screen partners in the film Social Suicide (2015), the only film that they both appeared in since Romeo and Juliet (1968). Hussey's daughter, actress India Eisley, played their fictional daughter Julia Coulson, in the project.
  Hussey has also worked as a voice actress, and was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production" at the Annie Awards for her work in the DC animated universe, as Talia al Ghul. She voiced the character of Kasan Moor in the PC/Nintendo 64 game, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (1998) and was also in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) as Jedi Master Yuon Par. She also lent her voice to Star Wars: Force Commander in 2000.
caption: Hussey at the 2008 Cinema City Film Festival
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