See '70s pin-up ann-margret now at 80 years

Bye Birdie Star does not intend to retire.


Ann-Margret Was one of the biggest stars of the 1960s and the 70s and his career is always strong today. The Swedish American actor and the singer - born Ann-Margret Olsson-was knownFor the musicals first, includingState fair,Goodbye Birdie, andViva las vegas, in which she co-played withElvis Presley. But, like the years lit, she passed to other genres, including the dramaCincinnati child withSteve McQueen, theJohn Wayne westernTrain thievesand the adaptation of the rock operaTommy.

Now, Ann-Margret is 80 years old and is still acting and freed from music. Read more about learn more about the iconic star life today.

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His career as an actor continued.

Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret at MGM studios in 1963
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Ann-Margret continued to act since she came to the fame in the early 1960s. Some of her other big movies over the years includeNewspaper,Old-fashioned men, andAny Sunday. Some of its other projects in recent years include the television seriesRay Donovan andThe Kominsky methodand the movieGo in style. In 2021, she played in the comedyQueen bees.

"It was difficult at the beginning, yes, because no one thought of me as a serious actress"she saidPage SIX Last year. She explained that the movie that changed things for her wasCarnal knowledge, which was directed byMike Nichols and co-playedJack Nicholson. "I do not know why, but he just wanted me to do that," she said the last director.

She continues to make music too.

Ann-Margret at the Family Film Awards in 2021
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Ann-Margret was very active in the music at the beginning of his career in the early 1960s, when she was marketed as a version of Presley's wife. In the years, she continued to play on stage and recorded music periodically, including a Christmas album in 2004. She recentlyNew recorded album titleBorn to be wild.

"I had not done album for 100 years! I had a bullet that does it!" she saidCloser weekly earlier this year. "It's all the music of the 60s. My era!"

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She had a long love marriage.

Ann-Margret and Roger Smith at the premiere of
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Ann-Margret was married to her husband, actorRoger Smith, from 1967 until his death in 2017. "When I look at the life of my life, I am the most proud of my marriage," she saysCloser. "We both wanted it to work. And it worked. We were together at night and the day. We loved each other and we were still in the corner of the other."

While the couple welcomes any children together, Ann-Margret has helped raise the three Smith children from an earlier relationship. Speak to a companion actorGeorge Hamilton forMaintenanceMagazine in 2014, Ann-Margretopen a little About his final-children but says that their lives are kept private for a reason.

"I met them when they were three, six and seven, and now they are not. [Laughs], "she says." Two of them are doctors. Well, I do not want to get into that because it's very, very private. "

She did not know what the next is for her.

Ann-Margret at a special screening of
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Ann-Margret shared withMaintenance that she considered her retirement in the 1970s but realized that it was not for her.

"I did what I thought was a farewell tour for three weeks in 1971. No one knew," she says. "I thought," Well, that's all. I leave the industry. "But then, I was removed for a year, in my mind, then I said," Honey, I do not think I want to be retired. I would like to go on stage again. ""

Now, in the early 80's, it goes just with the flow. In an interview of January, the world of Broadway asked himWhat's new after the recording of his album. "For me, I just say relaxation," she replied. "To be with my friends is relaxing. And I'm going to have my energy, then I do not know what I'm going to do. And I never know!"

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