Actress Ann-Margret, 85, was photographed arriving at a Los Angeles hotel in a wheelchair, several months after she revealed she had broken her elbow in a fall at home.
Staff met her car outside the hotel and helped her out before wheeling her into an event. She was seen smiling, dressed in an all-black outfit paired with a green blazer, glasses and a necklace.
The outing comes after Ann-Margret told Parade magazine in April about the fall that led to her injury. “I fell the other day and so now my right elbow is broken,” she said at the time. “That’s OK. … I have fallen so many times. I don’t intend to, but I do! What can I say?”
The injury forced her to cancel a planned fan event where she had been scheduled to sign autographs, but she told Parade she was recovering well, saying, “Yes I am. I sure am!”
A Decades-Long Career
Known early on as “The Female Elvis,” Ann-Margret rose to fame with her breakout role in the 1963 musical “Bye Bye Birdie” and later starred opposite Elvis Presley in 1964’s “Viva Las Vegas.” She moved into dramatic roles in the 1970s, earning her first of two Academy Award nominations in 1972 for “Carnal Knowledge.”
Over her career she has won five Golden Globe Awards, one Emmy Award, and received two Academy Award nominations and two Grammy Award nominations.
In a June interview with Fox News Digital, Ann-Margret spoke about her lifelong love of motorcycles, which began as a child in Sweden riding with her uncle. “I had to have one of my own,” she said, adding that she has never been afraid on a bike. “Isn’t that something?” she said. “I never have been. I love the speed. I try not to go too fast, although I do love the speed. I’m joyful when I get on that bike. I don’t get scared. That’s the problem!”
She made similar remarks to People magazine in February 2024, saying, “I love speed. Not the drug.”
In that same interview, Ann-Margret said she has no plans to slow down professionally, recalling how she took dance lessons as a child to convince her parents she belonged in show business. “I remember wanting to be in show business all my life,” she said. “And I remember one day I said to mother and daddy, ‘I want to talk to you. It’s a very, very important thing for me and I want to get into show business.'”
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