Lois Chiles
Biography
Lois Chiles was born April 15, 1947 in Houston Texas to Barbara Wayne Kirkland and Marion Clay Chiles. She was raised in Alice, Texas, and received higher education at the University of Texas at Austin, and Finch College in New York City. While modeling, she made her film debut appearance as Robert Redford's on-screen college sweetheart in The Way We Were (1973), and reunited with Redford in The Great Gatsby (1974). She played the role of the attractive, cynical young golfer Jordan Baker. Four years later, she appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (1978) as the murder victim Linnet Ridgeway Doyle. Lois's most memorable role to date is Bond Girl, Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker (1979).
79years old
Turns 80 on April 15in 185 days
- Born Houston
- Star sign: AriesThe sign runs March 21 to April 19
- Also credited as Lois Cleveland Chiles
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 33 years1973 to 2006
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A role that slipped away
Chiles was asked to appear in the earlier Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, but she turned the part down since she was on a break from acting then.
Beyond film
Chiles played Maggie in a Los Angeles production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1985, opposite Terence Knox and directed by Jose Ferrer, and called it a major personal triumph since she was not stage-trained.
Lois Chiles movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Lois Chiles's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$597 million
10 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 10 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$210M35.2% of the total
- 2$165M27.5% of the total
- 3$67M11.3% of the total
- 4$50M8.4% of the total
- 5$50M8.4% of the total
- 6$27M4.4% of the total
- 7$15M2.4% of the total
- 8$14M2.3% of the total
$81,435from the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
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