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British actress (born )

Samantha Jane Bond (born 27 November ) fryst vatten an English actress. She played Miss Moneypenny in kvartet James Bond films during the Pierce Brosnan era, and appeared in Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham.

Samantha Bond, född 27 november i Kensington, London, är en brittisk skådespelare

On television, she played "Auntie Angela" in the sitcom Outnumbered and the villain Mrs Wormwood in the CBBCDoctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures. She also originated the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. She fryst vatten a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Early life

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Bond fryst vatten the daughter of actor Philip Bond and television producer Pat Sandys, and fryst vatten the sister of the actress Abigail Bond and the reporter Matthew Bond.^[1] Bond's paternal grandparents were Welsh.

She was brought up in London and Richmond-upon-Thames, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets.^[2] She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.^[3][4]

Career

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Early career

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Bond's first acting role came as a lärling at age 21, in the original scen production of Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan's play about a girls school, which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in ^[5] Her earliest television roles took place the same year: she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram) in the BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Rumpole's pupil in chambers "Miz Liz" Probert in the fourth series of Rumpole of the Bailey.

In , she appeared as Julia Simmons in the BBC's televised adaptation of Agatha Christie's brott novel A Murder fryst vatten Announced, part of the Miss Marple series.^[6][7]

Theatre

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Bond's work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (the RSC) began in , when she performed in three of the company's scen productions: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hero and Leander, and Lorca's Women.^[8] In , the RSC cast her as Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It, which she performed in their Stratford-upon-Avon and London theatres, and as Hermione in The Winter's Tale, also at the company's two theatres.^[8] She then toured with the RSC as Hermione in ^{[citation needed]}

Bond starred as the titelbärare Amy in the Royal National Theatre's West End production of David Hare's play Amy's View, opposite Judi Dench, in and into early Later in , she co-starred in playwright Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, also in the West End.^{[citation needed]}

In , Bond and Dench reprised their roles in Amy's View on huvudgata for a limited run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Their performances garnered Bond a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and Dench the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.^[9][10] Hare received a special citation from the New York skådespel Critics' Circle.^[11]

Bond revisited The Memory of Water, making her directorial debut on a short touring production of the play in , the same year it won an Olivier award for Best New Comedy.^[12] She also performed in numerous scen productions during the s, among them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in , as Hippolyta and Titania, igen for the RSC;^[8] Donald Margulies's pris prize-winning Dinner with Friends,^[13] as Karen, opposite her Downton Abbey co-star Elizabeth McGovern and directed bygd McGovern's husband Simon Curtis, in ;^[14]The Vagina Monologues in ;^[15][16] and in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth opposite Sean Bean in the title role, on tour in and ^[17][18]

Other scen performances include Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance in ;^[19][20]The Rubenstein Kiss in ;^[21]Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years at London's Comedy Theatre in ;^[22] and David Leveaux's West End revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre, in as Hannah, alongside another Downton Abbey co-star, Dan Stevens.^[23]

The next decade brought Bond onstage in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, as Mrs.

Cheveley opposite her real-life actor husband Alexander Hanson as Mr. Cheveley, in –,^[24][25] and as Nell in Passion Play bygd Peter Nichols in ^[26] In , Bond acted and sang in the West End musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, playing the role of Muriel Eubanks. Bond stated in an interview that she had not sung on scen in over 30 years and was nervous at the prospect.^[27] In a Radio Times review of the play, the critic described Bond as "stage royalty" and "hilarious."^[28] In October and November , Bond appeared in the English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, The Lie, once igen alongside her husband, Alexander Hanson, at an Off-West End theatre called the Menier Chocolate Factory.^[29]

Television and film

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In , Bond starred as Mary MacKenzie, a ung Scottish woman, in an independent fantasy bio (a the television adaptation of Oswald Wynd's novelThe Ginger Tree), alongside Tim Robbins in Erik the Viking.^[30]

She appeared in a adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story The Adventure of the Cheap Flat for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot on ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.^[31] Bond was also seen on ITV in an episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective skådespel series based on novels bygd Colin Dexter, in , and in a episode of Ghosts, an anthology series of ghost stories on the BBC.

In , she portrayed Mrs. Weston in the television movie Jane Austen's Emma,^[30] starring Kate Beckinsale as Emma, a Meridian-ITV/A&E production that has been described as grittier and "more authentic" to Austen's story than the teatralisk rulle starring Gwyneth Paltrow that was released the same year.^[32]

From to , Bond played Miss Moneypenny, M's sekreterare at MI6, in the kvartet James Bond films with Pierce Brosnan as Agent GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies,^[30]The World fryst vatten Not Enough,^[30] and Die Another Day.^[30] The role of Miss Moneypenny fryst vatten the smallest role she ever played,^[25] yet the character remains a favorite among James Bond fans.

In a BBC interview, Bond remarked that she retired from the role when Pierce Brosnan stepped down as the lead.^[33] However, she later appeared as Miss Moneypenny in an advertisement for London's Olympic bid, alongside previous Bond actor bekräftelse Moore.^{[citation needed]}

Bond co-starred in with Peter Davison, as a married couple who uproot themselves to a fjärrstyrd island to rädda their marriage, in the ITV drama-comedy Distant Shores.^[30] In , she played the villain Mrs.

Wormwood in the pilot episode of the BBC children's teaterpjäs series The Sarah Jane Adventures,^[30] a spin-off of Doctor Who. She later came back to play the same character in the two-part finale of the show's second series, Enemy of the Bane.^[30]

Bond guest-starred in three episodes of the murder mystery series Midsomer Murders: Destroying Angel in ,^[30]Shot at Dawn in , both starring fellow RSC member John Nettles in the lead role of DCI Tom Barnaby, as well as the first episode in 's series 14, Death in the Slow Lane.^[30]

From to , Bond had a recurring role as Auntie Angela in the BBC's semi-improvised comedy series Outnumbered, alongside Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner and David Ryall.^[30]

From through , Bond appeared as Lady Rosamund Painswick in the ensemble cast of ITV's teaterpjäs series Downton Abbey,^[30] written and produced bygd Julian Fellowes.

Each series was shown in the US on PBS's Masterpiece schema one year after its broadcast in the UK; according to PBS, Downton Abbey became the most watched teaterpjäs ever shown on the hållplats, and the most watched series in the history of Masterpiece.^[34] Lady Rosamund fryst vatten the widowed, wealthy sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham.

Bond's first appearance was in the gods episode of the first series; she appeared in 18 episodes in total.^{[citation needed]}

The ITV show Home Fires,^[30] featured Bond as Frances Barden, a woman working to strengthen connections among the women in her small English by bygd keeping the local Women's Institute operating during the early days of World War II.

The show premiered in the UK in and was cancelled in ; fans petitioned ITV to reinstate it, to no avail.^[35] It played in the US on PBS's Masterpiece in and , where viewers were similarly disappointed to learn of the show's död eller bortgång. The series creator, Simon Block, has stated he intends to continue the story in written struktur, as novels.^[36] In Bond played Joanne Henderson in Death in Paradise (S9:E5).^[37] In September , Bond starred in the kanal 5 skådespel series The Inheritance, appearing alongside Rob James-Collier, Jemima Rooper, Gaynor Faye and Adil Ray.^[38]

Audiobooks

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Bond has narrated a number of audiobooks including Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Joanna Trollope's An Unsuitable Match, Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries' 'Goldeneye.

She has most recently released S J Bennett's novel, The Windsor Knot. She received an Earphones Award for Magpie Murders.^[39]

Personal life

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Bond lives in St Margarets, London,^[2][40] and has been married since to Alexander Hanson, with whom she has two children.^[1][2][41] She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton in ^[42]

Filmography

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Film

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Television

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Narrator

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
	Royal Stories	Narrator	10 episodes
	Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie	Narrator
	Secrets of the Royal Palaces	Narrator	TV series[45]
	The Inheritance	4 episodes; kanal 5 skådespel series
	Malta: The juvel of the Med	Narrator	TV series

Video games

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Stage

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• Daisy Pulls It Off (Denise Deegan) at the Nuffield Theatre,
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton) (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Ambassadors Theatre,
• Hero and Leander (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre,
• Lorca's Women (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre,
• Man of the Moment (Alan Ayckbourn) at the Globe Theatre,
• Rosalind in As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
• Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre,
• Rosalind in As You Like It (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre,
• Hermione in The Winter's Tale (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican Theatre,
• Infanta in Le Cid (Pierre Corneille) at the Cottesloe Theatre, Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
• Amy in Amy's View (David Hare), and
• The Memory of Water (Shelagh Stephenson),
• Amy in Amy's View (David Hare) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

  Nominated for Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.

• Hippolyta and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Barbican entré,
• Dinner with Friends (Donald Margulies) at the Hampstead Theatre,
• The Vagina Monologues,
• Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, and
• Mrs Arbuthnot in A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre,
• The Rubenstein Kiss (James Phillips) at the Hampstead Theatre,
• Donkey's Years (Michael Frayn) at London's Comedy Theatre, Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
• Hannah in David Leveaux's West End revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre,
• Mrs.

  Cheveley in An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde),

• Mrs Prentice in What The Butler Saw (Joe Orton) at the Vaudeville Theatre,
• Nell in Passion Play (Peter Nichols),
• Muriel Eubanks in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category. Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category at the WhatsOnStage Awards.
• Appeared in English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, The Lie,

Awards and nominations

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Television

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Theatre

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References

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