Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret was born on Apr 28, 1941 in Sweden. Ann-Margret's big-screen debut came with Pocketful of Miracles directed by Frank Capra in 1961. Ann-Margret is known for A Holiday Spectacular directed by John Putch, Ginna Claire Mason stars as Maggie and Derek Klena as John. Ann-Margret has got 18 awards and 30 nominations so far. The most recent award Ann-Margret achieved is Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Ann-Margret plays is A Holiday Spectacular which will be released on Nov 27, 2022.

Actress and singer Ann-Margret is one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond. She continued her career through the following decades and into the 21st century.Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland County, Sweden, to Anna Regina (Aronsson) and Carl Gustav Olsson, who worked for an electrical company. She came to America at age 6. She studied at Northwestern University and left for Las Vegas to pursue a career as a singer. Ann-Margret was discovered by George Burns and soon afterward got both a record deal at RCA and a film contract at 20th Century Fox. In 1961, her single "I Just Don't Understand" charted in the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. Her acting debut followed the same year as Bette Davis' daughter in Frank Capra's Milliardaire pour un jour (1961). She appeared in the musical La foire aux illusions (1962) a year later before her breakthrough in 1963. With Bye Bye Birdie (1963) and L'amour en quatrième vitesse (1964) opposite Elvis Presley, she became a Top 10 Box Office star, teen idol and even Golden Globe nominated actress. She was marketed as Hollywood's hottest young star and in the years to come got awarded the infamous nickname "sex kitten." Her following pictures were sometimes ripped apart by critics (Fièvre sur la ville (1965) and The Swinger (1966)), sometimes praised (Le Kid de Cincinnati (1965)). She couldn't escape being typecast because of her great looks. By the late 1960s, her career stalled, and she turned to Italy for new projects. She returned and, by 1970, she was back in the public image with Hollywood films (R.P.M. (1970) opposite Anthony Quinn), Las Vegas sing-and-dance shows and her own television specials. She finally overcame her image with her Oscar-nominated turn in Mike Nichols' Ce plaisir qu'on dit charnel (1971) and succeeded in changing her image from sex kitten to respected actress. A near-fatal accident at a Lake Tahoe show in 1972 only momentarily stopped her career. She was again Oscar-nominated in 1975 for Tommy (1975), the rock opera film of the British rock band The Who. Her career continued with successful films throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s. She starred next to Anthony Hopkins in Magic (1978) and appeared in pictures co-starring Walter Matthau, Gene Hackman, Glenda Jackson and Roy Scheider. She even appeared in a television remake of Tennessee Williams's masterpiece play "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1983. Another late career highlight for her was Les grincheux (1993) as the object of desire for Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. She continues to act in movies today.