Maryam d'Abo
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Maryam d'Abo in July 1987.
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27 December 1960 Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Hugh Hudson (2003–present) |
Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960) is an English film and television actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.
Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze (born in 1920 and daughter of Georgian general Giorgi Kvinitadze) and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo (born on 7 October 1917), d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva.
She decided to be an actress at the age of 11. She studied at Drama Centre London, while working as a model in adverts.
D'Abo made her screen debut in the successful low-budget science fiction horror film Xtro (1982), playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien.
She appeared in the film Until September (1984), and had small roles in Master of the Game (1984), White Nights (1985) and Arthur the King (1985).
She starred in The Living Daylights (1987) as Kara Milovy, the sweet and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist and sniper who falls for James Bond. As a tie-in with the film, she also appeared in a Bond-themed Playboy cover and multi-page pictorial in the September 1987 issue, but later said "I wouldn't do those pictures now... I've learned a lot since then" in an interview with People. She had a well-received role as Ta'Ra, an alien medical officer in the science fiction TV miniseries Something is Out There (1988), which was followed by a six-episode NBC mini-series by the same name, and played Anne Summerton in the TV adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1990), starring Ed Asner and directed by Clive Donner.
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