Lesley-Anne Down was born on 17th March, 1954 in Wandsworth, London, England, is an English actress who is best known for her roles as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs, Olivia Blake in the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach and Madeline Fabray LaMotte Main in North and South.
Biography and Career
She began acting and modeling, and in her teenage years had won several beauty pageants. She was voted Britain's most beautiful teenager at the age of fifteen.
After ending a ten-year relationship with actor-writer Bruce Robinson, she married Enrique Gabriel in 1980, but ended their marriage after a year and a half. Down's second marriage was to film director William Friedkin from 1982 to 1985 with whom she shares one son, Jack (born in 1982).
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he met her third husband, cinematographer Don E. Fauntleroy, during filming of the television miniseries North and South in 1985. They began an adulterous relationship which ended Down's marriage to Friedkin and Fauntleroy's marriage to Susan Ducat.The resulting legal proceedings interrupted the careers of both Down and Fauntleroy for two years while legal custody proceedings ultimately cost Down and Friedkin US$1 million apiece. Down and Fauntleroy have a son, George-Edward (born in 1998).
Since March 2003 she has portrayed Jacqueline Payne Marone in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.
She has played opposite leading men Laurence Olivier, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Donald Sutherland in various films. Down is known for her roles in television movies and miniseries including, North and South and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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We like Lesley-Anne Down her role in The Bold and The Beautiful
Why is Lesley-Anne Down famous?
Lesley-Anne Down is famous for her roles as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs, Olivia Blake in the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach.