Maud Adams
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Maud Solveig Christina Wikström (born 12 February 1945), known professionally as Maud Adams, is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girl
Bond girl
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest, of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Xenia Onatopp", or "Holly Goodhead"...

s: in The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...

(1974), and as the title character in Octopussy (1983).

Early life

Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå
Luleå
- Transportation :Local buses are run by .A passenger train service is available from Luleå Centralstation on Sweden's national SJ railway service northbound to Narvik on the Norwegian coast, or southbound to Stockholm. See Rail transport in Sweden....

, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax
Tax
To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities...

 inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller
Comptroller
A comptroller is a management level position responsible for supervising the quality of accounting and financial reporting of an organization.In British government, the Comptroller General or Comptroller and Auditor General is in most countries the external auditor of the budget execution of the...

. She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages. She was discovered in 1963 in a shop by a photographer who asked to take her picture, a picture he submitted to the Miss Sweden contest arranged by the magazine Allers
Allers (magazine)
Allers is the name of a Swedish and a Norwegian weekly magazine, both published by Aller Media. They both trace their origins from the Danish weekly Illustreret Familie-Journal, founded in 1877 by Carl Aller....

. Adams won this contest and from there her modelling career took off.

Career

Adams moved to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and later to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

 to work for Eileen Ford
Eileen Ford
Eileen Ford is a model agency executive and co-founder, in 1946, with her late husband Gerard William "Jerry" Ford, of Ford Models, one of the earliest and internationally best known modelling agencies in the world.-Early life:...

. At this time she was one of the highest paid and most exposed models in the world. Her acting career started when she was asked to appear in the 1970 movie The Boys In The Band
The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his Off Broadway play of the same title, Crowley penned a sequel to the play years later entitled The Men From The Boys...

, in which she played a photo-shoot model in the opening credits. In the 1970s, she guest-starred in such American TV series as Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

and Kojak
Kojak
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...

.

Adams was catapulted to international fame as the doomed villain's mistress in The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...

with Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...

 and Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

 where her performance was reviewed as "tough but haunted". In short order, she appeared in Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre. Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night , The Thomas Crown Affair , Fiddler on the Roof , Jesus Christ Superstar , Moonstruck , The Hurricane and The...

's futuristic Rollerball
Rollerball (1975 film)
Rollerball is a 1975 American dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine.-The Game:...

, several European films, and in the steamy obsession thriller Tattoo with Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American film actor. He also appeared as a guest star in numerous television shows. He frequently takes roles as a character actor, often playing unstable and villainous characters...

. She was so well regarded by James Bond film series producer Albert Broccoli that she was asked to return as the title character in Octopussy in 1983, this time as the lead—an exotic and mysterious smuggler, also opposite Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...

. Adams had a Swedish co-star on both of her Bond films, Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn is a Swedish-born actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.- Biography :...

 as Magda
Magda (James Bond)
Magda is a fictional character in the James Bond film Octopussy. She is portrayed by Kristina Wayborn.-Film biography:Magda seems to be Octopussy's right hand and her most trusted partner in the cult she leads....

 in Octopussy and Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland
Britt-Marie Ekland is a Swedish actress and singer, and a long time resident of the United Kingdom. She is best known for her roles as a Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun, and in the British cult horror film The Wicker Man, as well as her marriage to actor Peter Sellers, and her...

 as Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight is a fictional character from the James Bond universe.-Novel biography:In the novels, Mary Goodnight is a former Wren who is now the secretary to the 00 Section, which includes James Bond. Replacing the section's previous secretary, Loelia Ponsonby, Goodnight has a less severe, more...

 in The Man with the Golden Gun. She was also an extra
Extra (actor)
A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera or ballet production, who appears in a nonspeaking, nonsinging or nondancing capacity, usually in the background...

 in A View to a Kill
A View to a Kill
A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film is the fourth Bond film after The Spy Who Loved...

(1985). While portraying a Bond girl has not always indicated continued success as an actress, Adams comments, "Looking back on it, how can you not really enjoy the fact that you were a Bond Girl? It’s pop culture and to be part of that is very nice."

Adams parlayed her performance to a US television series Emerald Point NAS in 1983 and 1984, but was unable to sustain her high profile, falling back on second rate material such as Jane and the Lost City
Jane and the Lost City
Jane and the Lost City was a 1987 film, based on the British newspaper strip Jane by Norman Pett. An adventure comedy set during World War II, the film was directed by Terry Marcel, and stars Kirsten Hughes in the title role, Sam Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott and Robin Bailey.- Synopsis...

in 1987.

She hosted the Swedish TV show Kafé Luleå in 1994 and played a guest role in the Swedish soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 Vita lögner
Vita lögner
Vita lögner is a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV3, . The plot focused on the social life of the hospital staff and families in the fictional town of Strömsvik....

in 1998.

She guest-starred on That '70s Show
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...

in 2000, appearing as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts
Tanya Roberts
Tanya Roberts is an American actress best known for her roles in Charlie's Angels, The Beastmaster, A View to a Kill, Sheena and That '70s Show. Roberts was groomed as a Hollywood sex symbol during the early 1980s.- Early life :Blum was born in The Bronx, New York City, of Irish and Jewish descent...

, along with Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn
Kristina Wayborn is a Swedish-born actress who worked mostly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.- Biography :...

 (her Octopussy co-star) and Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera is a Nicaraguan-born American film and television actress as well as a former model. She is best known for her roles as Bond girl Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again and as Angelica Nero on the soap opera Dallas.-Early life:Barbara Kingsbury was born in San Carlos, Río San Juan,...

; all four share the title of Bond girl
Bond girl
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest, of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Xenia Onatopp", or "Holly Goodhead"...

 (though Carrera was in the unofficial adaptation Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again is a 1983 spy film based on the James Bond novel Thunderball, which was previously filmed in 1965 as Thunderball...

). Adams has remained close to the Bond producers, often attending Bond premieres and other events associated with the series.

She also was the president of a cosmetics company called Scandinavian Biocosmetics.

Personal life

Adams's first marriage, from 1966–1975 to photographer Roy Adams, ended in divorce. She then had relationships with actor Reid Smith
Reid Smith
Reid Smith is a wealthy Los Angeles, California, real estate businessman, who maintained a sporadic acting career from 1970 until about 1990.-Acting career:...

 and Steven Zax, a plastic surgeon. She married her current husband, private mediator and retired judge, Charles Rubin, in 1999. She has no children.

Films

  • The Boys in the Band
    The Boys in the Band
    The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his Off Broadway play of the same title, Crowley penned a sequel to the play years later entitled The Men From The Boys...

    (1970) ... Photo Model
  • The Christian Licorice Store (1971) ... Cynthia
  • Mahoney's Estate (1972) ... Miriam
  • U-Turn
    U-Turn (1973 film)
    U-Turn is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed by George Kaczender. It was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* David Selby - Scott Laithem* Maud Adams - Paula / Tracy* Gay Rowan - Bonnie* William Osler - Professor Bamberger...

    (1973) ... Paula/Tracy
  • The Man with the Golden Gun
    The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
    The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...

    (1974) ... Andrea Anders
    Andrea Anders (James Bond)
    Andrea Anders is a fictional character in James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. She is portrayed by Maud Adams. Throughout the film she is simply known as "Miss Anders."...

  • Rollerball
    Rollerball (1975 film)
    Rollerball is a 1975 American dystopian fiction film directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by William Harrison, who adapted his own short story "Roller Ball Murder", which first appeared in 1973 in Esquire magazine.-The Game:...

    (1975) ... Ella
  • Killer Force (1976) ... Clare
  • Merciless Man
    Merciless Man
    Merciless Man is a 1976 crime film directed by Mario Lanfranchi and starring Tony Lo Bianco.-Cast:* Tony Lo Bianco - The American* Maud Adams - Marta Mayer* Adolfo Celi - Lo Gallo* Barbara Vittoria Calori * Howard Ross...

    (1977) ... Marta Mayer
  • Laura ... Sarah
  • Tattoo (1981) ... Maddy
  • Jugando con la muerte (1982) ... Carmen
  • Octopussy
    Octopussy
    Octopussy is the thirteenth entry in the James Bond series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights...

    (1983) ... Octopussy
    Octopussy (character)
    Octopussy is a fictional character in the James Bond film of the same name. She is played by the Swedish actress Maud Adams.-Biography:...

  • A View to a Kill
    A View to a Kill
    A View to a Kill is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill", the film is the fourth Bond film after The Spy Who Loved...

    (1985) ... Woman in Fisherman's Wharf Crowd (uncredited)
  • Hell Hunters (1986) ... Amanda
  • The Women's Club (1987) ... Angie
  • Jane and the Lost City
    Jane and the Lost City
    Jane and the Lost City was a 1987 film, based on the British newspaper strip Jane by Norman Pett. An adventure comedy set during World War II, the film was directed by Terry Marcel, and stars Kirsten Hughes in the title role, Sam Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott and Robin Bailey.- Synopsis...

    (1987) ... Lola Pagola
  • Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988) ... Nadine
  • The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau (1988) ... Ariel Dubois
  • Deadly Intent (1988) ... Elise Marlowe
  • The Kill Reflex (1989) ... Crystal Tarver
  • Pasión de hombre (1989) ... Susana
  • The Favorite
    The Favorite
    For the opera by Donizetti, see La favorite. For the stadium in Palermo, Italy, see La Favorita. For the Canadian early music ensemble, see La Favoritte...

    (1989) ... Sineperver
  • Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
    Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
    Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation is an American horror film released in 1990. It was directed by Brian Yuzna and was written by Brian Yuzna, Woody Keith, and Arthur Gorson. The film stars Clint Howard, Neith Hunter, Tommy Hinkley, Reggie Banister, Allyce Beasley, and Maud Adams...

    (1990) .. Fima
  • Ringer
    Ringer
    Ringer may refer to:* Ringer, in sports idiom, an impostor, especially one whose pretense is intended to gain an advantage in a competition* Ringer , a Marvel Comics villain* Ringer , an EP by Four Tet...

    (1996) ... Leslie Polokoff
  • The Seekers
    The Seekers
    The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which were originally formed in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States...

    (2006) ... Ella Swanson

Television

  • Love, American Style
    Love, American Style
    Love, American Style is an hour-long TV anthology produced by Paramount Television and originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974...

    (1971)
  • Gäst hos Hagge (1975)
  • Kojak
    Kojak
    Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier...

    (1977) (2 episodes) ... Elenor Martinson
  • Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

    (1977) ... Maria Noble
  • Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (1978) ... Vikki Lee Sanchez
  • The Hostage Tower (1980) ... Sabrina Carver
  • Playing for Time
    Playing For Time (film)
    Playing For Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and Fania Fénelon, based on Fénelon's autobiography, The Musicians of Auschwitz...

    (1980) ... Mala
  • Chicago Story
    Chicago Story (TV series)
    Chicago Story was an NBC drama that aired in the spring of 1982.-Synopsis:The series followed the work and lives of several Chicago lawyers, police officers, and doctors. The series was similar to Hill Street Blues in that it was less about action scenes and more about the stresses of working in...

    (1982) ... Dr. Judith Bergstrom
  • Emerald Point N.A.S.
    Emerald Point N.A.S.
    Emerald Point N.A.S is an American television drama starring Dennis Weaver that premiered on CBS on Monday, September 26, 1983. It was cancelled in 1984 after twenty-two weeks, its final episode airing March 12, 1984....

    (1983) ... Maggie Farrell
  • Nairobi Affair (1984) ... Anne Malone
  • Blacke's Magic (1986) ... Andrea Starr
  • Hotel
    Hotel
    A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

    (1986) ... Kay Radcliff
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...

    (1989) ... Catherine Balzac
  • A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives (1993) ... Shelly Talbot Morrison
  • Kafé Luleå (1994) ... Host
  • Radioskugga
    Radioskugga
    Radioskugga is a 1995 Swedish TV series starring Figge Norling.- Plot summary :Radio presenter Alexander is fired from his job at the urban Radio station...

    (1995) TV-series ... Sister Katarina (Guest)
  • Walker, Texas Ranger
    Walker, Texas Ranger
    Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full...

    (1996) ... Simone Deschamps
  • Vita lögner
    Vita lögner
    Vita lögner is a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV3, . The plot focused on the social life of the hospital staff and families in the fictional town of Strömsvik....

    (1998) (20 episodes) ... Ellinor Malm
  • That '70s Show
    That '70s Show
    That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...

    (2000) ... Holly (Guest)

As herself

  • Women Who Rate a 10 (1981)
  • Battle of the Network Stars
    Battle of the Network Stars
    Battle of the Network Stars is the name of 19 US television specials featuring competitions among teams of popular television performers representing the three major broadcast networks at that time: ABC, CBS, and NBC.- History :...

     XI
    (1981)
  • Så ska det låta
    Så ska det låta
    Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006....

    (1997) (TV episode)
  • The James Bond Story (1999)
  • The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000)
  • Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (2000)
  • Inside 'Octopussy' (2000)
  • Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000)
  • Bond Girls are Forever (2002) (TV)
  • Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (2002)
  • James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute (2002)

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