British actress Lesley-Anne Down traded in LAs fires and political leanings for a life in Georgia

After years of living along the Pacific coast in Malibu, British actress Lesley-Anne Down named California’s continuous wildfires and liberal-leaning politics as the reasons she and her family left the Golden State for a life in Georgia.Down lived in southern California for decades after crossing the pond to pursue her Hollywood dream, but became so let down by the environment there — both natural and political — that she would eventually become a Southern belle.But Down, now 72, perhaps best known for her film roles in 1976’s "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" and 1978’s "The Great Train Robbery," traded it all in for a serene life feeding the deer that frequent her residence outside Atlanta in what she described as the ultimate "suburban countryside."PALISADES VILLAGE TO RE-OPEN, MARKING NEW MILESTONE FOR FIRE-DEVASTATED COMMUNITYLesley-Anne Down attends the 6,000th episode of "The Bold and the Beautiful" at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb.7, 2011.

(FilmMagic)The actress and singer — known as one of Hollywood’s most beautiful women in the late ‘70s and ‘80s for her piercing blue eyes and striking features — was voted Britain’s Most Beautiful Teenager and had her breakthrough role in the British television series "Upstairs, Downstairs.""I have to be very honest.I cannot think of a more lovely place to have brought up our first lot of kids, you know, who are now all in their middle and late 40s," Down told Fox News Digital, reflecting on her time living in the Point Dume and Trancas areas of Malibu.

"It was just lovely."Down, along with her husband, cinematographer and director Don E.FauntLeRoy, spent a lot of time in Malibu in the early ‘80s before they purchased their first house together on Point Dume.

They lived there until 2020."I remember looking out the kitchen window and, like, three riderless horses just going out for a little trot," she said, recalling the beauty of Broad Beach at that time, which she would later...