(CNN) – Hollywood is mourning the loss of actress Olivia Hussey Eisley.

According to a social media post, Eisley was surrounded by her loved ones when she died Thursday.

She shot to fame in the 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” where she played Juliet.

FILE - Leonard Whiting, left, and Olivia Hussey arrive at the screening of "The Producers" at...
FILE – Leonard Whiting, left, and Olivia Hussey arrive at the screening of “The Producers” at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 26, 2018, in Los Angeles. Whiting and Hussey, the two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet”, sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens.(Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Her performance of the star-crossed lover earned her a Golden Globe award.

Eisley later starred in the 1974 horror film “Black Christmas,” as well as “Death on the Nile.”

She is survived by her three children, her husband of 35 years and a grandson.

Eisley was 73 years old.

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