Ann-Margret’s Life Now: career, rare performances and biopical details

Legendary actress Ann-Margret Is busier than ever when she approaches her 65th year in the entertainment industry.

As soon as Ann-Margret (full name Ann-Margret Olsson) left her native Sweden for the US with her family in the 1940s, she showed early performance as a student to the Marjorie Young School of Dance. Ann-Margret quickly found success in Hollywood and forged an indelible legacy with her acting performance in Bye bye Birdie And later, Grumpy old men.

Ann-Margret Costered with Elvis Presley In the musical comedy of 1964 Viva Las VegasWith the combination so successful that they have recorded three duets together. Presley and Ann-Margret’s on the screen have been transferred to a real love affair, which was immortalized in the 2005 CBS miniserie Elvis. (In the CBS series, Rose McGowan Ann-Margret, while Jonathan Rhys Meyers Played Presley.)

Looking back on their affair in 2023, Ann-Margret joked that she was mainly attracted to Presley because he “always smoke great.”

“He may not have had anything on, but he just always smelled fantastic,” she said The Hollywood Reporter. ‘[Elvis] Was extremely funny. He would take his decrease and I would separate it. And he loved teasing me and I would tease him back immediately. Sometimes I hit him. He didn’t hit me back. Because if he did, I would have hit him really hard. “

Ann-Margret’s other great love was her deceased husband Roger SmithStar of the classic ABC Detective series 77 Sunset Strip. The couple was one of the most sustainable marriages of Hollywood, because they made the knot in 1967 and remained together until the death of Smith by Myasthenia Gravis, a neuromuscular disease, in 2017 (Ann-Margret was a stepmother of Smith’s three children from an earlier marriage.)

“When I look back on my life, I am most proud of my marriage,” the actress said Weekly closer In 2022. “We both wanted it to work. And it worked. We were together day and night. We loved each other and we were always in each other’s corner.”

The Bye bye Birdie Actress remained active in the Hollywood community in her 1980s, after recently had a head with a red carpet appearance on the Project Angel Food’s Lead With Love Fundraising in Los Angeles.

She was guest of honor at the charity event and even received a tribute on stage of Will & Grace actor Eric McCormack. Describing the silver screen icon as ‘The Female Elvis’, McCormack emphasized Ann-Margret’s ’60s Dance Moves that fascinated the world’.

“You changed how a generation hit the dance floor,” said the McCormack. “Where do those incredible movements come from? Dance everyone in Sweden like that?”

In September 2025 Ann-Margret was Eremast at the 7th annual Daytime Beauty Awards, where she received a tribute from Emmy-winning fashion expert Lawrence Zarian. She also appeared in November 2023 in Walt Disney World in Florida as a guest storyteller for the festive candlelight test of the theme park. The ceremonial honor has been given to luminaires such as Neil Patrick Harris” Kurt Russell” Sigourney Weaver And Helen Hunt In the past.

US Weekly exclusively reported in May 2024 that a long-awaited biopic about Ann-Margret’s incredible life and career in the making was-with Lindsay Lohan As a top candidate to play the actress. An insider told Us exclusively at the moment that Lohan felt that she was the only one [could] Play the role, “and hoped that the role could” win [her] an Oscar [or] An Emmy. “

‘[This role can] Bring her career to the next level, “said a source of Lohan, after her recent career Renaissance with Irish wish And Freakier Friday.

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Ann-Margret has supported Lohan’s casting, although she told Indiewire In July 2025 there were still some important details that had to be worked out before the biopic improved.

‘I know that [Lohan] wants to do that [biopic]”Said Ann-Margret.” It simply depends on what the dialogue is. What can I say? I love her. I think she is full of talent, and I would just like to see what they can imagine. “

Although the performances of Ann-Margret on the large and small screens are nowadays rare, she certainly did not retire with acting. In recent years, she had a supporting role against Ellen Burstyn And James Caan In the romantic comedy Queen bees and made a cameo appearance in the Hallmark Channel film A spectacular holidayboth in 2021.

Many may not know that Ann-Margret was briefly considered in the 1970s, so far that they lead a farewell trip. As Ann-Margret said later Interview MagazineShe quickly decided that she did not enjoy the life of the grid and promised to continue working for as long as possible.

“I thought:” Well, that’s it. I leave the industry, “” she remembered in 2014. “But then I was retired for a year, in my mind, and then I said,” Honey, I don’t think I want to be retired. I would like to go on stage again. “

The actress went on. ‘You know, I feel so blessed [about my life]. The fact that I have so many friends who are just so honest and so loyal and forgiving and still care. ‘

If she doesn’t run on the red carpet these days, the Viva Las Vegas Actress is surrounded by her good friends. Ann-Margret told Weekly closer In 2022, her friends created a walking group to keep her active and to keep her life after the death of her husband 2017.

“On Monday there can be three of us,” said Ann-Margret. “Another day, there may be 15. We go to a different place every weekend to walk. I am excited to go.”