In this country his father worked as a professor at a university in Melbourbe. Olivia’s maternal grandfather was the German Max Born, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
When she had finished her basic studies, Livvy, as she is called, decided to pursue her professional career in the University of Melbourne.
Since she was little Olivia surprised with her beautiful voice, in 1970 she was selected to be part of the group Toomorrow, British version of The Monkees. With this group he only recorded his album and acted in a movie of the same name.
In 1972 the singer Cliff Richard chose her to collaborate on his television show called It´s Cliff Richard, this would be a good thing for her as she became known for her great beauty and exceptional voice.
In 1971 he recorded his first album “If not for tou“That in the United States got three singles of regular success. Two years later he presented his second album Let me be there, where the song stood out Take me home country roads.
In 1974 she was the representative of England in the Eurovision Festival, sang the song Long live love and I am in fourth place. The winners were the Swedes of the group ABBA for its theme Waterloo.
But Olivia kept growing and released her third production If you love me, let me know who was placed in the first positions and his ballad I honestly love you was placed in first place on the American Billboard.
Then he took out his album have yoy, never been mellow, which made it to the top of the 1975 album charts and the track of the same name was number one on the Hit Parade.
That same year she moved to the United States where she quickly became famous as a pop and country singer. Physical It was another of his successes and he stayed for ten weeks in the first position.
In 1979 he participated in a benefit concert called Music for UNICEf, was next to renowned artists such as ABBA, Donna Summer, Bee gees and Rod Stewart.
When it comes to acting, Olivia has starred in some musical films, the greatest of her accomplishments being the 1978 film “Grease” in which she shared credits with actor John Travolta.
Unfortunately the following productions for the screen were not very good, including Xanadu where he acted alongside Gene Kelly and Two of a Kind, where he was again a couple of John Travolta.
In 1984 she married actor Matt Lattanzi and with whom she had a daughter. Chloe rose who was born two years later.
Moving away from the screens and the art world, Olivia teamed up with a friend to launch her own clothing brand called Koala Blue in the United States and Australia, but financial conflicts occurred and the actress went bankrupt.
Thanks to her work in television and her recording career, Olivia was able to recover financially, but in 1992 two terrible news made her tread deeply and dedicate herself much more to her own health.
That year her father and her passed away they detect breast cancerOlivia took all the necessary steps and underwent a mastectomy and nine-month chemotherapy treatment. He then returned to Australia to rest and recuperate and thought it best to retire.
But apparently the disease gave him more will to live and he composed and produced his personal album called Gaia, becoming in a few weeks Platinum Record in Australia and Europe, marking her big comeback, completely healed.
This experience made Olivia offer her support to all women who suffer from this disease, sharing her experience and the best way to overcome this disease.
By 1996 he had an affair with Patrick McDermott, but he mysteriously disappeared during a boat excursion in 2005. After a while certain rumors spread that he had been seen in Mexico and that he had faked his death to end his relationship with Olivia.
In July 2008 she remarried, but secretly, to the well-known tycoon John Easterling, with whom she lives today.