The British artist played Jesus' mother at only 26 years old and is the mother of an actress with a rising career.
Although 48 years have passed since its release, the film Jesus of Nazareth, directed by the Italian Franco Zeffirelli and starring the British Robert Powell, remains a classic, especially at Easter.
When almost five decades have passed since its premiere, it is known that Powell, who played Jesus, has been away from acting and public life for years.
The role of Jesus' mother was played by actress Olivia Hussey, who at the time of taking the role in the now legendary film she was only 26 years old.
Although she has British nationality, the artist, now 72 years old, was born in Buenos Aires in 1951. Her connection with the South American country is strong, since her biological father was Osvaldo Ribó, a renowned Argentine singer. of tangos. Her mother, the British lawyer Joy Alma Hussey, divorced Ribó when the actress was 5 years old, so the actress finally ended up growing up in Europe.
Hussey, who is also known for having played Mother Teresa of Calcutta in the film "Mother Teresa", has been away from the film industry for more than 15 years, stopping actively working on films in 2008.
Of course, she broke this break in cinema in 2015 when she acted in the film "Social Suicide" with her daughter, the American actress India Eisley, the result of her relationship with the musician David Eisley.
The 30-year-old artist rose to stardom during 2019 as the protagonist of the TNT miniseries, "Jesus of Nazareth", which told the story of Fauna Hodel, and who uncovered the participation of her grandfather, the doctor George Hodel, in one of the most macabre crimes in the US of the 1940s, known as the "Black Lady" murder.
