Born Ann-Margaret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Sweden and educated at Nortwestern University. Glamorous, red-headed siren who was discovered by George Burns while a cabaret performer and subsequently typecast in teenage sex-kitten roles throughout the 1960s. Ironically, it was a film in which she appeared nude that brought her critical respect and her first Academy Award nomination: as the distraught "older woman" opposite Jack Nicholson in CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971). Since her marriage in 1967 to her personal manager, the former actor Roger Smith, and since her life-threatening fall from a stage in 1972, she has ventured into more interesting projects and has displayed a vulnerable sensitivity and warmth under her rather hard exterior beauty, while still continuing to perform as the sexy singer-dancer in stage spectaculars. Notable film credits include POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES (1961), STATE FAIR (1962), BYE BYE BIRDIE (1963), VIVA LAS BEGAS and KITTEN WITH A WHIP (both 1964), THE CINCINNATI KID and BUS RILEY'S BACK IN TOWN (1965), STAGECOACH, THE SWINGER, MADE IN PARIS and MURDERERS' ROW (all 1966), R.P.M. and C.C. AND COMPANY (both 1970), CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (1971), THE TRAIN ROBBERS (1973), TOMMY (1975), JOSEPH ANDREWS and THE LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE (both 1977), THE CHEAP DETECTIVE and MAGIC (both 1978), THE VILLAIN (1979), MIDDLE AGE CRAZY (1980), I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES and LOOKIN' TO GET OUT (both 1982), TWICE IN A LIFETIME (1985), 52 PICK-UP (1986), A TIGER'S TALE and A NEW LIFE (both 1988), NEWSIES (1992), GRUMPY OLD MEN (1993), GRUMPIER OLD MEN (1995), ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (1999), THE LAST PRODUCER (2000), A WOMAN'S A HELLUVA THING (2001), INTERSTATE 60 (2002), TAXI (2004), MEM-O-RE (2005), THE BREAK-UP and THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE (both 2006), and THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND (2008).    Nominated for Supporting Actress 1971: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE    Nominated for Actress 1975: TOMMY 2 nominations