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Down, Lesley-Anne

LC control no.n 79052757
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Personal name headingDown, Lesley-Anne
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Variant(s)Down, Lesley
Down, Leslie-Anne
Associated countryGreat Britain
United States
LocatedAtlanta (Ga.)
Birth date1954-03-17
Place of birthLondon (England)
Field of activityMotion picture acting Motion picture industry Television acting
Profession or occupationActresses Singers Motion picture actors and actresses Television actors and actresses Models (Persons)
Found inSondheim, Stephen. A little night music [SR] ℗1978 label (Lesley-Anne Down)
IMDb.com, viewed January 13, 2025: (Lesley-Anne Down; born March 17, 1954, Wandsworth, London, England, UK; sometimes credited as Lesley Anne Down, Lesley Down, Leslie-Anne Down; actress)
Wikipedia, viewed January 13, 2025: (She began acting and modelling at a young age, and in her teenage years won several beauty pageants. Made her motion picture debut in the 1969 film The Smashing Bird I Used to Know. Starred as Georgina Worsley in the ITV series, Upstairs, downstairs (1973-75). Also starred in A Little Night Music (1977), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), Hanover Street (1979), Rough Cut (1980), Sphinx (1981) and Nomads (1986). On television, she played the leading roles in The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (1978), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), Murder Is Easy (1982), and in North and South (1985-86). In 2020, Down moved to Atlanta, bought a ranch-styled house and announced that she had retired from acting. Despite this, Down returned to work playing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 2024 biographical film Reagan)
Associated languageeng