The actress died when she was 73 years old. Learn more about her career and why she filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures for 'Romeo & Juliet.'

Olivia Hussey, who rose to fame in the 1960s as a teenage Juliet and starred as a scream queen in the iconic ’70s horror film “ Black Christmas ,” has died. The actor was 73. Hussey’s family announced her death on Instagram.

Olivia Hussey Eisley, a British-Argentine actor who shot to fame as a teenager starring as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” and went on to star in the slasher classic “Black Christmas” and the 1978 “Death on the Nile,” died Friday. She was 73. Hussey’s death was confirmed to the San …