Abstract. We identify a large class of Orlicz spaces L Φ (µ) for which the topology. We also establish a variant of the C-property and use it to prove a w * -representation theorem for proper convex increasing functionals, satisfying a suitable version of Delbaen's Fatou property, on Orlicz spaces L Φ (µ) with lim t →∞ Φ(t) t = ∞. Our results apply, in particular, to risk measures on all Orlicz spaces L Φ (P) other than L 1 (P).