Olivia Cole Death
Olivia passed away on January 19, 2018 at the age of 75 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Olivia's cause of death was Heart attack.
When did Olivia Cole die?
January 19, 2018How did Olivia Cole die? What was the cause of death?
Heart attackHow old was Olivia Cole when died?
75Where did Olivia Cole die? What was the location of death?
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Olivia Cole Birthday and Date of Death
Olivia Cole was born on November 26, 1942 and died on January 19, 2018. Olivia was 75 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: November 26, 1942
Date of Death: January 19, 2018
Age at Death: 75
Olivia Cole - Biography
Olivia Cole (born November 26, 1942) is an American actress. Cole was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Arvelia (née Cage), a tennis player and instructor and William Calvin Cole, a worker for Grumman. After graduating from Manhattan’s Hunter College High School in 1960, she studied drama at Bard College in New York and earned a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she graduated with honors in 1964. After returning to the United States, she earned a master’s degree in theater arts with minor in Scandinavian studies in 1967 from the University of Minnesota. She made her screen debut in the daytime soap opera Guiding Light in 1969 and later appeared in over 30 shows and films.
She was an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. In film, she appeared in Heroes (1977), Coming Home (1978), Some Kind of Hero (1982), Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984), Big Shots (1987), more recently in First Sunday (2008), as well as in the television movies Something About Amelia (1984) and The Women of Brewster Place (1989).
In June 1971, she married actor Richard Venture, one of the few to enter an interracial marriage in Hollywood, at that time. They would later divorce in 1984. She retired in 1995, but later returned to acting.
Cole died at the age of 75 at her home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 19, 2018, after a heart attack.
