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, United Kingdom to a Georgian mother and Dutch father, 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 commercials.
In 1983, she made her screen debut in the successful...
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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, United Kingdom to a Georgian mother and Dutch father, 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 commercials.
In 1983, she made her screen debut in the successful low-budget British science fiction horror film Xtro, playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien, after a nude love scene. Xtro was briefly vilified as a so-called video nasty, but in fact it was granted an uncut video certificate by the BBFC. Talking to Femme Fatales magazine in 1994, d’Abo remembered it as "a terrible movie".
In 1985, she made a brief appearance as 'French girlfriend', opposite Marc Sinden in Taylor Hackford's White Nights.
Her most famous role was in 1987 as Kara Milovy, the sweet...
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