Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#10). [1995]
Survived a dramatic 22-foot fall from a stage in a Lake Tahoe, Nevada concert in 1972.
Was a cheerleader at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
Attended Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).
The bond of friendship Ann-Margret forged with Elvis Presley in their first pairing in Viva Las Vegas (1964) was apparent, and kept alive, by Elvis's life-long habit of sending a bouquet of flowers to all of A-M's future stage-show appearances, until he died in 1977.
19 August 2000: She suffered three broken ribs and a fractured shoulder when she was thrown off a motorcycle she was driving in rural Minnesota, US.
Discovered by actor/comedian George Burns when he heard her sing in a campus musical at Northwestern University and hired her to be a part of his Las Vegas act in November 1960.
Appeared on a network TV show featuring up-and-coming talent, and lost to a man who played "Lady of Spain" by blowing onto a leaf.
Appeared on the cartoon show "The Flintstones" (1960) as "Ann-Margrock".
Measurements: 35-23-35 (in 1965), 36D-25-36 (in 1986), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Speaks Swedish fluently.
Ann Margret Detailed Biography
Born April 28, 1941, she came to the United States with her mother when she was five, settling in the Chicago area. As a young girl Ann-Margret was discovered by the legendary George Burns and since her film debut, playing Bette Davis' daughter in "A Pocketful of Miracles", "State Fair," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Viva Las Vegas" with Elvis Presley, "Stagecoach," and "The Cincinnati Kid." In the Seventies Ann-Margret as an actress won many Academy Award nominations for her work in "Carnal Knowledge", and "Tommy." Her live performances draw record crowds in the Orient, Las Vegas and Miami. Her body of work expands with more films, TV Specials and awards. The eighties begin with her winning her first Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year Award. She stared in her first of several critically acclaimed TV Dramas, and was nominated for three Best Actress Emmy's. In the nineties she performed live at the Radio City Music Hall. She filmed two classics: "Grumpy Old Men," and its sequel, "Grumpier Old Men" with Walter Mathau, Jack Lemmon and Sophia Loren. Ann-Margret serves as the National Chairperson for the Myasthenia Gravis Division of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and lives with her husband Roger Smith, and their dog Missy in Beverly Hills, California.
