Olivia Newton-John

Overview

Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest, she returned to England with her mother, where she resided until 1975. Her many hit singles include, "You're The One That I Want" from the movie Grease (1978), which she starred in with John Travolta. She appeared on the TV series, It's Cliff Richard (1970), as well as in the film Toomorrow (1970). For several years, she was engaged to Bruce Welch, a founding member of The Shadows, which included Cliff Richard. Welch was one of the producers of her first international hit, "If Not For You".

Olivia took the advice of a friend, and left Britain to take up residence in America in 1975 to help further her singing career. English businessman, Lee Kramer, quickly became her manager.
- IMDb mini biography by: L Richards

On June 30, 2005, Newton-John's then-partner, cameraman Patrick McDermott, went missing after an overnight fishing trip out of San Pedro, California. The U.S. Coast Guard later concluded that he was likely lost at sea.
Was close friends with Karen Carpenter.
Newton-John insisted on a screen test for the role of Sandy Olsson in Grease (1978), concerned she didn't have the acting skills and also that she would look too old to be a high school student (she was age 29 at the time of filming, portraying a character who was supposed to be age 18). She made the screen test and got the role, which had originally been meant for actress Susan Dey (who played Laurie Partridge in The Partridge Family (1970), but turned down the role on her manager's advice). Dey is four years younger than Newton-John.
Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II, working at Bletchley Park on the Enigma Project. As he spoke Hochdeutsch (high or perfect German), he interrogated high-ranking Nazi officers, including Rudolf Hess. After the war, he was headmaster of King's College in Cambridge before taking the position of headmaster of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.
She performed the background vocals on John Denver's song "Fly Away".

There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!
I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
Family, nature and health all go together.
There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
To me, luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.