1. Lesley-Anne Down was born on 17 March 1954 and is a British actress and singer.
42 Facts About Lesley-Anne Down
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Lesley-Anne Down made her motion picture debut in the 1969 drama film The Smashing Bird I Used to Know and later appeared in films Assault, Countess Dracula and Pope Joan.
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Lesley-Anne Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV period drama series, Upstairs, Downstairs.
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In 1990, Lesley-Anne Down played the role Stephanie Rogers in the CBS drama series Dallas.
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Lesley-Anne Down was born on 17 March 1954 and brought up in Wandsworth, London, England.
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Lesley-Anne Down began acting and modelling, and in her teenage years won several beauty pageants.
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Lesley-Anne Down was voted Britain's most beautiful teenager at the age of 15.
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Lesley-Anne Down left school at 15 and came to America for the first time at 17.
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In 1971, Lesley-Anne Down guest-starred in the British television series Six Dates with Barker, Out of the Unknown, and Public Eye.
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Lesley-Anne Down had a supporting role in the 20th Century Fox's drama film All the Right Noises.
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In 1972, Lesley-Anne Down starred in the historical drama film Pope Joan opposite Liv Ullmann and Olivia de Havilland.
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Lesley-Anne Down made her debut in the episode "Goodwill to All Men" in December 1973.
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Lesley-Anne Down's fame led to a nude photoshoot for the magazine Mayfair in 1975.
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In 1976, Lesley-Anne Down starred in the comedy film The Pink Panther Strikes Again opposite Peter Sellers.
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In 1978, Lesley-Anne Down played the leading role of burlesque artist Phyllis Dixey in the BAFTA Award-nominated made-for-television drama film, The One and Only Phyllis Dixey.
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Lesley-Anne Down appeared in the romantic drama film The Betsy and played the female lead opposite Sean Connery in the heist comedy film The First Great Train Robbery.
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Lesley-Anne Down played Egyptologist researching a paper about the chief architect to Pharaoh Seti in the movie.
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At her best, she reminds one of Jacqueline Bisset, but unlike Miss Bisset, who has survived many movies like this with her identity intact, Miss Lesley-Anne Down seems to dissolve as the film lurches on.
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In 1984, Lesley-Anne Down again starred with Anthony Hopkins, this time in the romantic war drama Arch of Triumph based on the novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque.
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Lesley-Anne Down appeared onstage in Hamlet and a musical version of Great Expectations.
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In 1985, Lesley-Anne Down starred as Madeline Fabray LaMotte in the ABC miniseries, North and South based on the 1980s trilogy of novels North and South by John Jakes.
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Lesley-Anne Down has a little more flounce to the ounce, but the best she can do as a woman deceived is to fly into a deep snit.
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In 1990, Lesley-Anne Down was cast as a series regular for a limited run in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas as Stephanie Rogers.
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Lesley-Anne Down earned a quarter of a million dollars' salary for a 10-week shoot.
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Lesley-Anne Down starred in the unsuccessful television comedy pilot 1775 set in colonial Philadelphia during the run-up to the American Revolution.
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Lesley-Anne Down guest-starred on the CBS series The Nanny and Diagnosis: Murder.
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Lesley-Anne Down returned to cinema starring in the thriller film Over the Line.
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Lesley-Anne Down later starred in the smaller-scale films Night Trap, Munchie Strikes Back In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful, and The Secret Agent Club.
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Also in 1994, Lesley-Anne Down starred opposite Charles Bronson in the action thriller film Death Wish V: The Face of Death, the fifth and final installment in the Death Wish film series.
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Lesley-Anne Down's character was the mix of Sue Ellen Ewing and Alexis Colby of the 1980s prime time soaps.
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Lesley-Anne Down starred in two Lifetime movies: The Perfect Wife and You Belong to Me based on Mary Higgins Clark's novel.
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Lesley-Anne Down had cameo appearances in Don E FauntLeRoy-directed action films Today You Die and Mercenary for Justice, both starred Steven Seagal.
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Lesley-Anne Down wrote screenplay and starred in the 2006 comedy-drama film Seven Days of Grace.
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In 2003, Lesley-Anne Down was cast in another soap playing the role of Jackie Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS.
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In January 2012, Lesley-Anne Down confirmed that she would be departing the programme.
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In 2011, Lesley-Anne Down appeared in the thriller film Rosewood Lane directed by Victor Salva with Rose McGowan, Ray Wise, and Lauren Velez.
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Lesley-Anne Down later starred in the horror film Dark House, directed by Victor Salva.
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Lesley-Anne Down starred alongside Kirsten Vangsness in the period black-and-white comedy film Kill Me, Deadly playing dotty millionairess Lady Clairmont.
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Also in 2015, Lesley-Anne Down appeared in another Steven Seagal action thriller, Absolution.
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Lesley-Anne Down co-starred in the Hallmark Holiday film A Cinderella Christmas in 2016.
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In 2020, Lesley-Anne Down moved to Atlanta, bought a ranch-styled house and announced that she had retired from acting.
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Lesley-Anne Down met her third husband, cinematographer Don E FauntLeRoy, during filming of the television miniseries North and South in 1985.