Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1973–75). She received further recognition for her performances in the films The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Little Night Music (1977), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), Hanover Street (1979), Sphinx (1981) and Nomads (1986). She is also known as Madeline Fabray LaMotte Main in miniseries North and South (1985–86), for which she was nominated for Golden Globe Awards in 1986.In 1990, Down played the role Stephanie Rogers in the CBS drama series Dallas. During 1997–99 she played Olivia Richards in the NBC series Sunset Beach. From April 2003 to February 2012, she portrayed Jackie Marone Knight in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
Hanover Street, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The First Great Train Robbery, The Betsy, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, Countess Dracula, Rosewood Lane, Brannigan, The Perfect Wife, The Secret Agent Club, Family of Cops, In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful, Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus, K...
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Sunset Beach, North and South, Dallas, North and South, Book II, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Bold and the Beautiful, Retrosexual: The '80s
[on why she chose to appear in Dallas (1978)] Because they paid me a quarter of a million dollars for seven days' work over ten weeks. What do you think I am, darling? Stupid?!
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For her role as Stephanie Rogers in Dallas (1978), she was paid $250,000 for what amounted to just seven days' work over the course of ten weeks.
Currently lives in Malibu, California with her husband, Don E. FauntLeRoy.
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After she made her name in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), nude photos taken by Kirk Douglas's son Peter Douglas, appeared in British mens' magazine Mayfair. She later went to court to have the originals returned to her.
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She spent her early childhood formative years in the Putney area of London, England and spent time with her uncle Michael, a major in the British army.
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Originally, Maud Adams was to star in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) but after she had been filming for two days the role was recast for some reason and Lesley-Anne Down got the part instead.
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She and first husband Enrique Gabriel met on the set of Sphinx (1981) and were married only a few days later. Their marriage was a short one and ended in an annulment. Lesley-Anne recalls her marriage as an "exciting ride". Not long after her annulment, she met director William Friedkin, whom she later married.
Family: Mother Isabella (from Scotland, UK) who passed away in 2000, father Percy James (from UK). Sister Angela Julie Ward.
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When she was filming Days of Our Lives (1965), her father was due to leave to go back to England but suddenly had an angiogram, pains in his chest, resulting in a quadruple bypass operation.
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