Born in London, England and raised in European cities such as Paris and Geneva, Maryam d'Abo has rewarded audiences with her beauty and presence for over twenty years. Maryam first appeared in Xtro (1982), a gory horror film that is considered a cult entry in the genre. She appeared consistently throughout the mid-1980s in a variety of films, ...
[In 1995, on the aftermath of starring in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987)] It gave me a dream start but it turned into a nightmare I couldn't shake off. I left England for Hollywood and wasn't ready for it at all. I thought I could cope, but I just couldn't do it.
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She first met her husband, director Hugh Hudson for the leading role of Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), but she felt that he already had somebody else in mind for the role. (Andie MacDowell played Jane in the finished film.) She didn't connect with him until 15 years later when she met him at a dinner party. They became involved and married four years later in 2003.
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She almost got married when she was 22 years old and later said that she was glad it didn't happen because she wasn't ready for marriage then.
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Her maternal grandfather was a Czarist army general from the Republic of Georgia and her grandmother was from the wealthiest family in Georgia. When the Soviets took over in 1922, the French government invited them to emigrate. Penniless in Paris, her grandfather fell back on one of the delicacies of his native land and actually made yogurt in France for a living. He lived to be 96 years old.
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Her father was descended from a Finnish family that moved to Holland when Finland was occupied by Sweden, and they eventually to England. He had contracted meningitis shortly before Maryam was born, and the disease destroyed his brain; it made him an invalid, and unable to speak, until he died 35 years later.
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Though she is not French, French is her native language, since she grew up there. She has also acted on the French stage, and claimed that she is much quicker and extroverted in French since it is a Romance language.
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Was rejected for the role of the Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985) because she appeared too young. It went to Fiona Fullerton.
Regretted her nude layout in "Playboy" magazine to promote the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987). She said that she really disliked the pictures, because they were so pedestrian.
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Her mother headed the UNICEF greeting card operation in Europe.
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In 1986, when she played the role of the Bond girl, she made sure that she didn't come across as a bimbo. Her passion for women's rights continued to 2011, when she joined a women's rights march that culminated at London's arts and culture complex, the Southbank Centre, hosting "Women of the World," a festival showcasing women's achievement.
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She and her husband Hugh Hudson worked on a documentary about brain trauma, inspired by Maryam's 2006 real-life surgery from a brain aneurysm.
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Almost died in 2006 from a brain hemorrhage during a workout.
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Has an admitted phobia of explosions.
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Nov. 2002 - Hosted Bond Girls Are Forever (2002) on the American Movie Classics network, showcasing the allure of "Bond Girls" from the James Bond series of films. In addition to sharing her own stories and experiences from The Living Daylights (1987), she interviewed such past and present Bond Girls as Halle Berry, Jill St. John, the first Bond Girl Ursula Andress, and Sophie Marceau.
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Cousin of singer Mike d'Abo, and hence first cousin once removed of his daughter, Olivia d'Abo.
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Georgian mother and Dutch father. Brought up in Paris and Geneva.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Finding Altamira
2016
Elena
The Masterful Hermit
2016
Short
Narrator
X Company
2015
TV Series
Madame Sournis
Tigers
2014
Maggie
13 Steps Down
2012
TV Series
Madame Odette
Madame Ida
2012
Short
Romayne
Dorian Gray
2009
Gladys
The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding
2006
Video
Queen Rosalind
L'enfer
2005
Julie
Evil Remains
2004
Linda Bryce
San Antonio
2004
Margaux
Helen of Troy
2003
TV Mini-Series
Queen Hecuba
Doctor Zhivago
2002
TV Mini-Series
Amalia Guishar
The Point Men
2001
Francie Koln
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
1998
TV Series
Elaine Bendel
The Sea Change
1998
Alison
An American Affair
1997
Geneveve
So This Is Romance?
1997
Sara II
Timelock
1996
Teegs
Savage Hearts
1995
Beatrice Baxter
Space Precinct
1995
TV Series
Cambria Elon
Solitaire for 2
1995
Caroline
Stalked
1994
Brooke Daniels
The Browning Version
1994
Diana
Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993
Video
Zoe (segment "Another Woman's Lipstick")
Tales from the Crypt
1993
TV Series
Greta Kreutzel
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993
Jacki (as Maryam D'Abo)
Tropical Heat
1993
Beverly
Shootfighter: Fight to the Death
1993
Cheryl Walker
Leon the Pig Farmer
1992
Madeleine (as Maryam D'Abo)
Murder, She Wrote
1992
TV Series
Barbara Calloway
Double Obsession
1992
Claire Burke
Red Shoe Diaries
1992
TV Series
Zoe
Immortal Sins
1991
Susan
Money
1991
Sarah Walkins
TECX
1990
TV Series
Lauren
Chillers
1990
TV Series
Maggie
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
1990
TV Movie
Anne Summerton
Nightlife
1989
TV Movie
Angelique
Something Is Out There
1988-1989
TV Series
Ta'Ra
Something Is Out There
1988
TV Mini-Series
Ta'Ra
Les idiots
1987
TV Movie
Marie
The Living Daylights
1987
Kara Milovy
Laughter in the Dark
1986
If Tomorrow Comes
1986
TV Mini-Series
Solange
Behind Enemy Lines
1985
TV Movie
Claudie DeBrille
White Nights
1985
French Girlfriend
Now Voyager
1985
Video
Girlfriend of Main Character - 'Stay alone'
Arthur the King
1985
TV Movie
2nd Court Lady
Until September
1984
Nathalie
Master of the Game
1984
TV Mini-Series
Dominique Masson
Xtro
1982
Analise Mercier
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rupture: A Matter of Life OR Death
2011
Documentary producer
Bearing Witness
2005
Documentary co-executive producer
Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
TV Movie documentary executive producer / producer
$1.9 Million
