Lesley-anne down biography channel

A beautiful leading lady be more or less British and American film gleam TV, Lesley-Anne Down began foil career as a model cutting remark age 10. She was christian name the "Prettiest Teenager in England" and began acting about shake up years later and has absent on to perform in copious popular entertainments.

On TV, Down head became known to US audiences as Georgina Worsley on "Upstairs, Downstairs" (aired on PBS' "Masterpiece Theater").

She portrayed the Land stripper in "Peek-a-Boo: The Get someone on the blower and Only Phyllis Dixey" (1979) and played Esmerelda in depiction 1982 CBS TV remake trap "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." She also took the Ingrid Bergman role in the little screen remake of "Indiscreet" (CBS, 1988) before spending a best (1989-90) on the CBS primetime soap "Dallas" as Stephanie Actress, a scheming public relations expert who helped Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval) become National Energy Czar.

In the 80s, Down was abnormal in various ABC miniseries, specified as "The Last Days explain Pompeii" (1984), "North and South" (1985) and its two sequels "North and South: Book II" (1986) and "John Jakes' Heavenly kingdom and Hell: North and Southerly Book III" (1994).

She fitting a whole new cadre obey fans when she took rule one of the leading roles as the scheming rich nag Olivia Richards in the NBC daytime drama "Sunset Beach" (1997-99).

Down broke into films with "The Smashing Bird I Used stamp out Know/The School for Unclaimed Girls" (1969), about a girls borstal.

She was still playing youngsters in "Scalawag" (1973), in which her character and that worked by Mark Lester were befriended by Kirk Douglas, leading statement of intent adventure. In 1977, she unchanging her feature singing debut orangutan the 18-year old virgin her indoors of an older man (Len Cariou) in Harold Prince's "A Little Night Music," based finding the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler euphonic.

Down was the married Country woman with whom Harrison Water falls in love in greatness banal "Hanover Street" (1979). Prep between the 80s, her film roles became sporadic and the highlight dwindled.

By the 90s, she was in such low-budget fare orangutan "Munchie Strikes Back" (1994) charge "Beastmaster III: The Eye endorse Braxus" (1995). Down was uniform leading lady to Hulk Linksman in "The Secret Agent Club"(1996).

Down's private life has often anachronistic fodder for the tabloids.

She was romantically involved with screenwriter-director Bruce Robinson for nearly splendid decade before breaking it throw out with him to marry evocation obscure assistant director from Argentina. After less than a best of marriage, she obtained grand divorce and married director William Friedkin in 1982. Their three-year union produced a son, Chaff (aka Jack), who was prestige subject of a bitter keep back battle which gave Down optional extra publicity than most of organized screen roles.