Olivia Newton-John Parents: Meet Brinley Newton-John And Irene Born

Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist.

She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number one hits and another ten Top Ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and two Billboard 200 number one albums If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975).

Newton-John’s father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during World War II.

Newton-John was the youngest of three children, following her brother Hugh (1939–2019), a medical doctor, and her sister Rona (1941–2013), an actress who was married to Olivia’s Grease co-star Jeff Conaway (from 1980 until their divorce in 1985).

In 1954, when she was six, Newton-John’s family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where her father worked as a professor of German and as the master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.

Olivia Newton-John Parents: Meet Brinley Newton-John And Irene Born

Her parents are widely known as Brinley Newton-John and Irene Helene Born.

During World War II, Rudolf Hess was arrested by an MI5 officer working on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park, Newton-John’s-father. He was in this role when Olivia was born.

He took over as headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys after the war. Her mother was a housewife. Her parents are British-Australians.