Leonard Whiting

Leonard Whiting is an English actor who is best known for his role as Romeo in the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Husseys Juliet, a role which earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actor. He was touted as a star in the making, the next Laurence Olivier and the next great British actor.

Whiting was born in the Wood Green area of London, England, the only son of Arthur Leonard Whiting and Peggy Joyce OSullivan. He has English, Irish and some RomaniGypsy ancestry. Whiting attended the St. Richard of Chichester School, Camden Town, leaving just a week or two before beginning work on Romeo and Juliet .

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