Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a five-time Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-, Emmy Award- and Grammy-nominated Swedish-born American actress, singer and dancer. She grew up in a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949. In 1961, at nineteen, she filmed a screen test at 20th Century Fox and was signed to a seven-year contract. Ann-Margret met Elvis Presley on the MGM soundstage when the two filmed Viva Las Vegas. Ann-Margret starred in The Cincinnati Kid in 1965 opposite Steve McQueen.