Known For: British and Australian singer and actress (1948–2022)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: singer, film actor, recording artist, singer-songwriter, actor, composer
Country: Australia
City: Cambridge
Date of Birth: Sunday, 26 September 1948
Died: 2022-08-08 00:00:00 in Q2223280
Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer and actress. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included fifteen top-ten singles, including five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and two number-one albums on the Billboard 200: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
| BirthPlace | Cambridge |
| Education | Q4005855 |
| Awards | Q10762848, Q9684829, Q1179189, Q4824396, Q9680541, Q12201434, Q17985761, Q935283, Q843219, Q935283, Q5593911, Q28382637, Q1441539, Q48800546, Q19858080, Q550239, Q569207, Q104848253, Q837343, Q86124920, Q1441582 |
| Spouses | Matt Lattanzi, John Easterling |
| Children | Chloe Rose Lattanzi |
| Relatives | Max Born, Jeff Conaway, Brett Goldsmith, Tottie Goldsmith, Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, Georgina Born, Ben Elton |
| Website | http://www.olivianewton-john.com/ |
| Wikipedia | Olivia_Newton-John |
Olivia Newton-John was born on 26 September 1948 in Cambridge to Brinley "Bryn" Newton-John (1914–1992) and Irene Helene (née Born; 1914–2003). Her father was born and raised in Wales to a middle-class family. Her mother was born and raised in Germany to a German Jewish academic family who came to the UK in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. Newton-John's maternal grandfather was German Jewish Nobel Prize–winning physicist Max Born. Her maternal grandmother Hedwig was the daughter of German Jewish jurist Victor Ehrenberg and his Lutheran wife, Helene Agatha von Jhering. Through Helene Agatha, Newton-John was a descendant of Protestant theologian Martin Luther. She was also descended from an unspecified Spanish monarch. Helene Agatha's own father, Newton-John's great-great-grandfather, was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John's uncle was pharmacologist Gustav Victor Rudolf Born. Through her Ehrenberg line, Newton-John was a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Newton-John's father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II. After the war, he became the headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and was in this post when Newton-John was born. Newton-John was the youngest of three children, following her brother Hugh (1939–2019), a medical doctor, and her sister Rona (1941–2013), an actress who was married to restaurateur Brian Goldsmith and was later married to Newton-John's Grease co-star Jeff Conaway (from 1980 until their divorce in 1985). She also had a half-brother, Toby, and a half-sister, Sarah, both of whom were born of her father's second marriage. In early 1954, when Newton-John was five, her family emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, on the SS Strathaird. Her father worked as a professor of German and as the master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne. Her family attended church while her father served as the head of the Presbyterian college. Newton-John attended Christ Church Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra and then the University High School in Parkville.
