Post by KotO on Apr 6, 2020 19:08:10 GMT
Actress Honor Blackman, best known as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, has died at age 94.
In a statement to U.K. newspaper the Guardian, the British star’s family said: “It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman aged 94. She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.”
Blackman shot to fame as crimefighter Cathy Gale in the hit spy show The Avengers, alongside Patrick Macnee as John Steed. She played the role from 1962 to 1964.
In 1964, aged 39, she left The Avengers to became one of the oldest “Bond girls,” playing Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger.
She later expressed regret at leaving the hit TV series for the 007 film saying, “I walked away at the wrong moment. They were just going from black and white to color, they were starting to get real film money.”
“I never considered myself a sex symbol,” she told Saga in 2015. “I hate watching myself. I’ve only seen Goldfinger twice: once at the premiere and once at the 50th anniversary. I’ve turned down parts in the past because they required a sexy woman and I didn’t think that was me. I always wanted to play the secretary. I know, it’s extraordinary, but it’s the truth.”
Her last acting role was in 2015, when she guest-starred in British TV show You, Me & Them, playing the mischievous mother of actor Anthony Head.
Blackman married twice: to Bill Sankey from 1948 to 1956, and to British actor Maurice Kaufmann, with whom she adopted two children, from 1961 to 1975. She never remarried, saying she preferred to stay single.
In a statement to U.K. newspaper the Guardian, the British star’s family said: “It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman aged 94. She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.”
Blackman shot to fame as crimefighter Cathy Gale in the hit spy show The Avengers, alongside Patrick Macnee as John Steed. She played the role from 1962 to 1964.
In 1964, aged 39, she left The Avengers to became one of the oldest “Bond girls,” playing Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in the third James Bond film, Goldfinger.
She later expressed regret at leaving the hit TV series for the 007 film saying, “I walked away at the wrong moment. They were just going from black and white to color, they were starting to get real film money.”
“I never considered myself a sex symbol,” she told Saga in 2015. “I hate watching myself. I’ve only seen Goldfinger twice: once at the premiere and once at the 50th anniversary. I’ve turned down parts in the past because they required a sexy woman and I didn’t think that was me. I always wanted to play the secretary. I know, it’s extraordinary, but it’s the truth.”
Her last acting role was in 2015, when she guest-starred in British TV show You, Me & Them, playing the mischievous mother of actor Anthony Head.
Blackman married twice: to Bill Sankey from 1948 to 1956, and to British actor Maurice Kaufmann, with whom she adopted two children, from 1961 to 1975. She never remarried, saying she preferred to stay single.