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Actress Olivia Hussey, Who Played Juliet at 15, Dies at 73

©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures  Olivia Hussey, the Buenos Aires-born actress who in 1968 portrayed Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, died in Los Angeles on December 27 at the age of 73. Hussey was only 15 when she starred in the film alongside 16-year-old Leonard Whiting, who played the part…

Exclusive Interview With Fanny Ardant at the Brussels International Film Festival

French actress Fanny Ardant has performed in more than eighty films, thirty plays, twenty television dramas and is recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards for Pédale douce (Soft Pedal) by Gabriel Aghion and for La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos, as well as a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.  There is no other thespian who possesses her…