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Ann-Margret
Actress + Singer
Female
Born
Apr 28, 1941
Age
72
Hometown
J%C3%A4mtland
Other Names
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She is best known for her roles in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Tommy… Read More
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Roger SmithMarried 1967
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CHILDHOOD
1941
Birth
Born on April 28, 1941.
1942
1 Year Old
Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved there again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind.
1946
5 Years Old
Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived.
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1949
8 Years Old
She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949 and took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, showing natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps.
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TWENTIES
Ann-Margret began recording for RCA in 1961.
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1962
21 Years Old
She also sang at the Academy Awards presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Theme from Bachelor in Paradise."
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1963
22 Years Old
In 1963, Ann-Margret guest-starred in a popular episode of the animated TV series The Flintstones, voicing Ann-Margrock, an animated version of herself.
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1965
24 Years Old
Ann-Margret starred in The Cincinnati Kid in 1965 opposite Steve McQueen.
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Finally she starred as the lead in The Swinger in 1966 with Tony Franciosa.
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1967
26 Years Old
During a lull in her film career in July 1967, Ann-Margret gave her first live performance in Las Vegas, with her husband Roger Smith (whom she had married in 1967) taking over as her manager after that engagement.
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1968
27 Years Old
After the first Vegas run ended, she followed up with a CBS television special "The Ann-Margret Show", produced and directed by David Winters on December 1, 1968, with guest-stars Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Danny Thomas, and Carol Burnett.
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THIRTIES
1971
30 Years Old
In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge, playing the over-loving girlfriend of a viciously abusive Jack Nicholson and garnering a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On the set of The Train Robbers in Durango, Mexico, in June 1972, she told Nancy Anderson of Copley News Service that she had been on the "grapefruit diet" and had lost almost twenty pounds (134 to 115) eating unsweetened citrus.
1973
32 Years Old
In 1973 she starred with John Wayne in The Train Robbers.
1975
34 Years Old
Then came the musical Tommy in 1975, for which she was nominated the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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1977
36 Years Old
On August 17, 1977, Ann-Margret and Roger Smith traveled to Memphis to attend Elvis Presley's funeral.
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FORTIES
In 1982, Ann-Margret co-starred with Walter Matthau and Dinah Manoff in the film version of Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be in Pictures.
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1986
45 Years Old
She appeared as the wife of Roy Scheider's character in the 1986 crime thriller 52 Pick-Up.
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FIFTIES
1995
54 Years Old
In 1995, she was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history; she ranked 10th.
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1999
58 Years Old
Ann-Margret's performance in the 1999 television film Life of the Party garnered her Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
2000
59 Years Old
She made guest appearances on the television shows Touched by an Angel in 2000 and three episodes of Third Watch in 2003.
LATE ADULTHOOD
In 2001, working with Grammy Award-Winning producer-arranger-musician Art Greenhaw who calls Ann-Margret his favorite female vocalist, she recorded the critically acclaimed album God Is Love: The Gospel Sessions.
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2006
65 Years Old
In 2006, Ann-Margret had supporting roles in the box-office hits The Break-Up with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause with Tim Allen.
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Ann-Margret guest-starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Bedtime," which first aired on March 31, 2010.
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