https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/romeo-juliet-star-olivia-hussey-033510375.htmlShe was 15 when Romeo and Juliet director Franco Zeffirelli discovered her as he was looking for someone to play the role of Juliet.
He cast Hussey alongside British 16-year-old Leonard Whiting as Romeo in the film.
The film was nominated for an Oscar for best picture and director. Hussey missed out on an Oscar nomination herself in a strong year in which Barbra Streisand won the main award for Funny Girl.
But at that year's Golden Globes, Hussey won the award for best new star.
Decades later, she and Whiting sued Paramount Pictures alleging Zeffirelli - who died in 2019 - had encouraged them to film nude scenes despite previous assurances they would not have to.
The pair sought damages of more than $500m (£417m), based on suffering they said they had experienced and the revenue brought in by the film since its release.
But last year a judge dismissed the case, finding the scene was not "sufficiently sexually suggestive".
In 1977, Hussey had reunited with Zeffirelli for Jesus of Nazareth to play the Virgin Mary, before appearing in Death on the Nile a year later based on Agatha Christie's novel.
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