Actress
Speaks Lithuanian fluently.
Her parents fled from Lithuania on bicycles in 1944 during the second Soviet occupation.
In 1990, "Good Housekeeping" magazine named Ann one of the most admired women of the world.
Ann obtained a scholarship to the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, which gave her chance to study acting and music with some of the finest teachers in the country.
In 1979, she was a huge hit on Broadway in "Sugar Babies" with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller.
In 1985, at age 35, Ann was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. She battled the disease courageously and successfully.
Ann gave birth to her first child, a son, Andrew Joseph Nauseda H. Murcia, on February 3, 1992.
Ann is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award-winning actress (she won the Best Actress Golden Globe for her television movie The Ann Jillian Story which was the highest-rated television movie of the 1987-1988 season).
Future husband (and then-policeman) Andy Murcia pretended to be gay when he and Ann first met, so she wouldnt think he was just another man trying to pick her up.
(January 2003) Continues her work as a motivational speaker, which she has done for more than 12 years.
Inducted into the Lithuanian American Hall of Fame in 2015.
