Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73. Her husband, John Easterling, broke the sad news about Newton-John’s official accounts on Monday, August 8. He explains that the actress died peacefully on her ranch in Southern California, surrounded by her family and her friends. Although she did not specify the cause of death, Olivia Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1990s. Although she was in remission for a long time, the cancer returned in 2013 and in 2018 she announced that she had metastasized. breast. vertebral column. In the declaration of her death, her husband points this out “Olivia has been a symbol of triumph and hope for more than 30 years, sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the dedicated Olivia-Newton John Foundation. to research on plant medicine and cancer “.
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Born in 1948 in Cambridge, England, she was the granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born. She moved to Australia at the age of six, but returned to the UK with her mother as a teenager after winning the Australian television talent show “Sing, Sing, Sing”. He made his big screen debut in 1965 in the musical “Funny Things Happen Down Under”.. In the 1970s she also began to make a name for herself as a singer, winning her first Grammy in 1974 for best female country performance for “Let Me Be There”. That year she had her first hits on the US sales charts.
In 1978 he became a popular culture icon starring in ‘Grease’ with John Travolta, a great success at the box office and in the sales of the soundtrack, an eternal musical that has not stopped going on the air and that has transferred its triumph to theaters. Travolta said goodbye to her with this cute message to her eternal Sandy about her: “My dear Olivia, you have made our lives so much better. Your impact has been incredible. I love you so much. See you at the end of the road and we will be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever, your Danny, your John “.
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From ‘Grease’ to ‘Xanadu’
Olivia Newton-John’s career continued after the huge success that was “Grease” with “Xanadu” along with Gene Kelly, a film that was panned by critics but gave her joy in the music charts. However, on an interpretative level, she marked him so much that she no longer played as deep a role as Sandy. It didn’t help him work again in 1983 with John Travolta on ‘Tal para cual’.
He didn’t stop working, yes, although he continued to act in television films and disappeared from the big screen. In music we cannot forget his album ‘Totally Hot’ and the single ‘Physical’, which sold more than a million copies and spent ten weeks at number 1. A song he believed was endangering his career because it was too bold, but it’s still a timeless song referenced by current artists like Dua Lipa. Newton-John was lucky in other areas, such as the opening of the Koala Blue chain of stores along with Pat Carroll, who had to file for bankruptcy.
His latest work includes a residency in Las Vegas that began in 2014, his appearance in “Glee” and “Sharknado 5: Global Fluttering”. His last film was “The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee” in 2020.
On a personal level, in 1984 she married actor Matt Lattanzi and had a daughter, Chloe Rose. She divorced in 1995 and in 1996 she started living with a cameraman named Patrick McDermott who passed away in 2005. In 2008 she married businessman John Easterling..
Source: E Cartelera
