When she was filming "Days of Our Lives" (1965), her father was due to leave to go back to England but suddenly had an angiogram, pains in his chest, resulting in a quadruple bypass operation.
Parents: Isobel (from Scotland, UK) and Jack/James (from UK).
She met 'Don E. FauntLeroy' when she was filming the miniseries "North and South" (1985) (mini).
She and then husband Enrique Gabriel met on the set of Sphinx (1981) and were married only a few days later. Their relationship was a short one and ended in an annulment. Lesley-Anne recalls her marriage as an "exciting ride". Not long after her annulment, she met director William Friedkin, whom she later married.
Originally, Maud Adams was to star in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" but after she'd been filming for two days the role was recast for some reason and Lesley-Anne Down got the part instead.
Lesley Anne Down appeared in films like School for Unclaimed Girls (1969), Countess Dracula (1970), Pope Joan (1972), and Scalawag (1973), but the blossoming beauty caught the attention of American audiences as Georgina in the acclaimed TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs." That show's success put her in hot demand as a romantic-and often, simply decorative-lead in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Little Night Music (1977), The Betsy (1978), The Great Train Robbery, Hanover Street (both 1979), Rough Cut (1980), and Sphinx (1981). Since then, Down has appeared mostly in TV movies and miniseries like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "North and South," and its sequels, with only occasional films like Nomads (1986) and Death Wish V (1994) in between.
Where Are They Now?
Currently to be seen in the US soap, The Bold and the Beautiful
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