Legendary actress Ann-Margret is busier than ever as she approaches her sixty fifth yr within the leisure business.
As soon as Ann-Margret (full title Ann-Margret Olsson) left her native Sweden for the U.S. together with her household within the Nineteen Forties, she confirmed an early performing skill as a scholar on the Marjorie Younger College of Dance. Ann-Margret rapidly discovered success in Hollywood and cast an indelible legacy together with her appearing performances in Bye Bye Birdie and, later, Grumpy Previous Males.
Ann-Margret costarred with Elvis Presley within the 1964 musical comedy Viva Las Vegas, with the pairing proving so profitable that they recorded three duets collectively. Presley and Ann-Margret’s onscreen chemistry carried over right into a real-life love affair, which was immortalized within the 2005 CBS miniseries Elvis. (Within the CBS collection, Rose McGowan portrayed Ann-Margret, whereas Jonathan Rhys Meyers performed Presley.)
Wanting again on their fling in 2023, Ann-Margret joked that she was particularly interested in Presley as a result of he “at all times smelled nice.”
Ann-Margret was completely glowing in her newest pink carpet look only one month after reuniting with former costar Pat Boone. The Bye Bye Birdie actress attended the Daytime Magnificence Awards at Grand Venue in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 21, alongside a roster of A-list stars. Ann-Margret, 84, was radiant in a vibrant pink prime […]
“He won’t have had something on, however he simply at all times smelled fabulous,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “[Elvis] was extraordinarily humorous. He would do his asides and I’d be breaking apart. And he cherished to tease me and I’d tease him proper again. Typically I punched him. He didn’t punch me again. As a result of if he would’ve, I might’ve actually punched him onerous.”
Ann-Margret’s different nice love was her late husband Roger Smith, star of the traditional ABC detective collection 77 Sundown Strip. The couple had been one in every of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages, as they tied the knot in 1967 and remained collectively till Smith’s loss of life from myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular illness , in 2017. (Ann-Margret was a stepmother to Smith’s three kids from a earlier marriage.)
“After I look again at my life, I’m most happy with my marriage,” the actress instructed Nearer Weekly in 2022. “We each needed it to work. And it did work. We had been collectively evening and day. We cherished one another and we had been at all times in one another’s nook.”
Ann-Margaret and Roger Smith in March 2017. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage
The Bye Bye Birdie actress remained energetic within the Hollywood neighborhood into her 80s, having just lately turned heads in July 2025 with a pink carpet look on the Mission Angel Meals’s Lead With Love fundraiser in Los Angeles.
She was a visitor of honor on the charity occasion and even obtained an onstage tribute from Will & Grace actor Eric McCormack. Describing the silver-screen icon as “the feminine Elvis,” McCormack highlighted Ann-Margret’s “’60s dance strikes that captivated the world.”
“You modified how a era hit the dance flooring,” the McCormack declared. “The place do these unimaginable strikes come from? Does everybody in Sweden dance like that?”
Ann-Margret and Eric McCormack in June 2025. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Pictures for Mission Angel Meals’s Lead with Love 6
In September 2025, Ann-Margret was a visitor of honor on the seventh Annual Daytime Magnificence Awards, the place she obtained a tribute from Emmy-winning trend professional Lawrence Zarian. She additionally made a particular look at Walt Disney World in Florida in November 2023 because the visitor narrator for the theme park’s festive Candlelight Processional. The ceremonial honor has been given to luminaries reminiscent of Neil Patrick Harris, Kurt Russell, Sigourney Weaver and Helen Hunt previously.
Us Weekly completely reported in Might 2024 {that a} long-awaited biopic on Ann-Margret’s unimaginable life and profession was within the works — with Lindsay Lohan as a prime contender to play the actress. An insider instructed Us completely on the time that Lohan felt she was “the one one who [could] play the half,” and was hopeful the position may “win [her] an Oscar [or] an Emmy.”
“[This role can] take her profession to the following stage,” a supply stated of Lohan, following her current profession renaissance with Irish Want and Freakier Friday.
Lindsay Lohan is experiencing one thing of Lohanassiance, to borrow a phrase from followers. The nickname refers back to the gorgeous private type transformation exhibited by the Our Little Secret actress, which she’s been highlighting on each pink carpet and discuss present look, as demonstrated once more on Wednesday, November 20, in New York Metropolis whereas en route […]
Ann-Margret has supported Lohan’s casting, although she instructed IndieWire in July 2025 that there have been nonetheless some key particulars that wanted to be labored out earlier than the biopic moved ahead.
“I do know that [Lohan] desires to do this [biopic],” Ann-Margret stated. “It simply is determined by what the dialogue is like. What can I say? I like her. I believe she’s filled with expertise, and I simply want to see what they will give you.”
Whereas Ann-Margret’s appearances on the massive and small screens are uncommon today, she has undoubtedly not retired from appearing. In recent times, she had a supporting position reverse Ellen Burstyn and James Caan within the romantic comedy Queen Bees and made a cameo look within the Hallmark Channel film A Vacation Spectacular, each in 2021.
Many could not know that Ann-Margret briefly thought-about retirement again within the Seventies, going as far as to headline a farewell tour. As Ann-Margret later instructed Interview Journal, she rapidly determined that she didn’t take pleasure in life off the grid and vowed to maintain working so long as she may.
“I assumed, ‘Properly, that’s it. I’m leaving the business,’” she recalled in 2014. “However then I used to be retired for a yr, in my thoughts, after which I stated, ‘Honey, I don’t assume I wish to be retired. I’d prefer to go on stage once more.’”
The actress went on. “You understand, I really feel so blessed [about my life]. The truth that I’ve acquired so many pals who’re simply so trustworthy and so loyal and forgiving and nonetheless care.”
Ann-Margret in April 2023. Jerod Harris/Getty Pictures for TCM
When she’s not turning heads on the pink carpet today, the Viva Las Vegas actress is surrounded by her shut pals. Ann-Margret instructed Nearer Weekly in 2022 that her pals created a strolling group to assist hold her energetic and engaged in life following her husband’s 2017 loss of life.
“On Monday, there is likely to be three of us,” Ann-Margret stated. “One other day, there is likely to be 15. We go to a unique place each weekend to stroll. I’m excited to go.”
