Lesley-Anne Down

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Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is an English actor, former model, and singer. Georgina Worsley appeared in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1973–75).

She was also honored for her appearances in the films The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Little Night Music (1977), and The Nomads (1986).

Madeline Fabray appeared in the miniseries North and South (1985–86), for which she was selected for a Golden Globe Award in 1986. Down starred Stephanie Rogers in the CBS drama series Dallas in 1990.

She appeared in the NBC series Sunset Beach from 1997-99.

Jackie Marone appeared in CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from April 2003 to February 2012.

Personal life

Down married Enrique Gabriel in 1980 but the couple's union was broken after a year and a half. William Friedkin, a film director who lived in 1982, was her second marriage, and she had one son, Jack (born 1982).

During the filming of the television miniseries North and South in 1985, she met her third husband, cinematographer Don E. Fauntleroy. They began a friendship that culminated in Down's marriage to Friedkin and Fauntleroy's marriage to Susan Ducat. Both Down and Fauntleroy's careers were interrupted for two years by the resulting court and custody cases, which ultimately cost Down and Friedkin US$1 million per person. George-Edward (b. ), the son of Down and Fauntleroy, is the son of George-Edward (b). 1998.

Down has appeared on several occasions in the film industry as a sexual predator. "People aspired to it," she said in 2002 about becoming popular in the late 1960s: "The casting couch was in full swing; people awaited it." She had also said, in a 1977 interview, "I was promised a lot of lovely big film parts by American producers if I went to bed with them." The casting couch is no myth, believe me.

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Life and career

Down was born in 1954 and grew up in Wandsworth, London, England. She began acting and modelling, and in her teenage years, she gained several beauty pageants. At the age of 15, she was voted Britain's Most Beautiful Teenager.

She made her debut in 1969 as a supporting actress in the British drama The Smashing Bird I Used to Know. She appeared in several other British films, including All the Right Noises, Assault, and Countess Dracula, as well as starring in the television series Six Dates With Barker, Out of the Unknown, and Public Eye.

Georgina Worsley, Marchioness of Stockbridge, was cast in 1973 on the Emmy Award-winning British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. In 1975, her fame led to a nude photoshoot for the magazine Mayfair. Downstairs, Downstairs, was her career breakthrough; after the show ended in 1975, she moved to Hollywood and began her film career. She appeared in the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again and later appeared in the film version of A Little Night Music. She appeared in The Betsy (1978), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), Hanover Street (1979), and box-office bomb Sphinx (1981).

She appeared onstage in Hamlet and a musical interpretation of Great Expectations.

Down has appeared in a number of leading roles in made-for-television films and miniseries. She appeared in The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, a British drama in 1978, as the title character. Esméralda appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a British-American TV film that was released in 1982 (opposite Anthony Hopkins), Indiscreet (1988), and Ladykillers (1988). She appeared in Arch of Triumph with Anthony Hopkins and Donald Pleasence in 1985. In 1984, she appeared in The Last Days of Pompeii on ABC's ABC miniseries and 1985, as well as in North and South. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1986 for her role as Madeline Fabray LaMotte Main in North and South. She appeared in North and South, Book II (1986), and Heaven & Hell: Book III (1994).

Stephanie Rogers appeared as Down as the series regular for a limited run in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas in 1990. For a 10-week gunman's salary, she received a quarter of a million dollars.

Down appeared in several small feature and television films in the 1990s and appeared on television shows including The Nanny and Diagnosis: Murder. She appeared in the 1994 film Death Wish V: The Face of Death, opposite Charles Bronson, and then appeared in the 1995 TV film Family of Cops.

Olivia Richards was cast as Olivia Richards on the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach in 1996. From January 1997 to December 1999, the series aired. Down appeared in Lifetime's The Perfect Wife and You Belong to Me after the soap was cancelled.

Down was cast on CBS' The Bold and the Beautiful in 2003. Down revealed that she would be leaving the program in January 2012. Down was also featured in the films The King's Guard, Eric Roberts and Ron Perlman, The Meeksville Ghost, the 13th Child, Today You Die, and Seven Days of Grace, in which she was also a screenwriter.

Down appeared in Victor Salva's thriller film Rosewood Lane with Rose McGowan, Ray Wise, and Lauren Vélez in 2011. She appeared in Kill Me, Deadly, as well as being the mother of leads in Dark House, I Am Watching You, and Justice.

In 2020, Down played British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the biographical drama starring Dennis Quaid.

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