Samantha Bond
Biography
Samantha Bond is an English actress who was born in London and brought up there and in Richmond-upon-Thames, the daughter of actor Philip Bond. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and began her career on stage in the early 1980s. She played Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films opposite Pierce Brosnan: GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999), and Die Another Day (2002). On television, she is known for Downton Abbey as Lady Rosamund Painswick and for the sitcom Outnumbered as Auntie Angela, and she portrayed the villain Mrs Wormwood in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Her stage work includes a Tony-nominated performance in Amy's View on Broadway and roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also appeared in the fantasy film Erik the Viking (1989).
64years old
Turns 65 on November 27in 45 days
- Born London
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
- Also credited as Samantha Jane Bond
Movie Career
- Films
- 19
- Career span
- 33 years1989 to 2022
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First role
At 21, while still a student, Bond took her first acting role. She was in the original stage version of Denise Deegan's play about a girls school, Daisy Pulls It Off, which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983.
A role that slipped away
From 1995 to 2002, Samantha Bond was Miss Moneypenny, the MI6 secretary to Dench's M, appearing with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. She told the BBC she left the part once Brosnan stopped being the lead.
Beyond film
Bond has lent her voice to audiobooks, among them works by Mary Norton, Joanna Trollope, Anthony Horowitz and Helen Fielding. For Magpie Murders she was given an Earphones Award.
Beyond film
Bond acted and sang as Muriel Eubanks in the 2014 West End musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In an interview, she said she was nervous because she had not sung on stage in more than 30 years.
Samantha Bond movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Judi Dench appears in six of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Judi Dench's page
Pierce Brosnan's page
Desmond Llewelyn's page
John Cleese's page
Michelle Yeoh's page
Colin Salmon's page
Box office
What Samantha Bond's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.6 billion
6 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 6 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 7 never in cinemas; 5 figure not found.
- 6Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 7Never in cinemas
- 5Figure not found
Highest grossing
The six biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$432M27.5% of the total
- 2$362M23.0% of the total
- 3$352M22.4% of the total
- 4$333M21.2% of the total
- 5$93M5.9% of the total
- 6$1.9M0.1% of the total
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