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Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England.Her highly acclaimed vocal musical and acting talents have made her a globally recognized name. Olivia Newton-John is also a small business entrepreneur and an avid activist in ecological or environmental issues.
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Newton-John's career soared after starring in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease in 1978. She was offered the lead role of Sandy Dumbrowski after a chance meeting with producer Allan Carr at a dinner party held by Helen Reddy in her Los Angeles home. Burned by her Toomorrow experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior (she turned 29 during the latter 1977 filming), Newton-John insisted on a screen test with the film's co-star, John Travolta. Their chemistry was obvious and Newton-John happily, but cautiously, signed on. The film accommodated Newton-John's Australian accent by recasting her character to be Sandy Olsson - an Australian who vacations and then moves with her family to the United States.
The film was the biggest box office hit of 19782 and remained popular enough that it was re-released in theaters on its 20th anniversary in 1998. The soundtrack spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the No. 1 You're The One That I Want (with John Travolta), the No. 3 Hopelessly Devoted To You and the No. 5 Summer Nights (with John Travolta and the film's cast). The former two songs were both written by Newton-John's long-time producer, John Farrar, specifically for the film. Newton-John became the second female (after Linda Ronstadt in 1977) to have two singles, Hopelessly Devoted To You and Summer Nights, in the Billboard Top 5 simultaneously. She was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated Hopelessly Devoted To You at the 1979 Academy Awards. To this day, the soundtrack still sells several thousand copies per week and is a fixture on Billboard's Soundtracks chart.
In 1979, Newton-John was appointed an Officer (OBE) of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2002, she was inducted into the Australian Music Hall of Fame by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
In 2006, she was named an Officer (AO) in the Order of Australia for "service to the entertainment industry as a singer and actor, and to the community through organisations supporting breast cancer treatment, education, training and research, and the environment".
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