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This article is about the Swedish actress and model. For the American stage actress, see Maude Adams.
Maud Adams
Adams at the LA Press Club's First Annual National Entertainment Awards, February 2008
Born
Maud Solveig Christina Wikström
Spouse(s)Roy Adams (1966–1975)
Charles Rubin (1999-present)

Maud Adams (born February 12 1945) is a Swedish actress known for her roles as two different Bond girls in two James Bond films, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and as the title character in Octopussy (1983).

Biography

Early life

Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller.[1] She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages.[2] 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. Adams won this contest and from there her modelling career took off.

Career

Adams moved to Paris and later to New York City to work for Eileen Ford, 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, 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 and Kojak.

Adams was catapulted to international fame as the doomed villain's mistress in The Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore and Christopher Lee where her performance was reviewed as "tough but haunted".[3] In short order, she appeared in Norman Jewison's futuristic Rollerball, several European films, and in the steamy obsession thriller Tattoo with Bruce Dern. 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. Adams had a Swedish co-star on both of her Bond films, Kristina Wayborn as Magda in Octopussy and Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun. She was also an extra in A View to a Kill (1985).[4] 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." [5]

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 in 1987.

She hosted the Swedish TV show Kafé Luleå in 1994 and played a guest role in the Swedish soap opera Vita lögner in 1998.

She guest starred on That '70s Show in 2000, appearing as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts, along with Kristina Wayborn (her Octopussy co-star) and Barbara Carrera; all four share the title of Bond girl. Adams has remained close to the Bond producers, often attending Bond premiers and other events associated with the series.

She also was the president of a cosmetics company called Scandinavian Biocosmetics.[6]

Personal life

Adams's first marriage, from 1966–1975 to photographer Roy Adams, ended in divorce. She then had relationships with actor Reid Smith[2] and Steven Zax, a plastic surgeon.[7]She married her current husband, private mediator and retired judge, Charles Rubin,[8] in 1999. She has no children.

Filmography

Films

Television

As director

  • Kafé Luleå (1994) (TV series)

As herself

  • James Bond: A BAFTA Tribute (2002)
  • Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (2002)
  • Bond Girls are Forever (2002) (TV)
  • Inside 'A View to a Kill' (2000)
  • Inside 'Octopussy' (2000)
  • Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (2000)
  • The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (2000)
  • The James Bond Story (1999)
  • Så ska det låta (1997) (TV episode)
  • Battle of the Network Stars XI (1981)
  • Women Who Rate a 10 (1981)

References

  1. ^ Maud Adams Biography (1945-)
  2. ^ a b Sheff, David. "Ma Barker and Pal Turn Out to Be Actress Maud Adams and Live-Out Boyfriend Reid Smith", People, Vol. 13, No. 19, 12 May 1980.
  3. ^ Amazon.com review
  4. ^ http://commanderbond.net/article/2410
  5. ^ Talking to Bond Girls
  6. ^ http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=994
  7. ^ Jarvis, Jeff. "Bond's Beauties", People, Vol. 20, No. 3, 18 July 1983.
  8. ^ http://www.arc4adr.com/honcharlesgskiprubin.html
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