Lois Cleveland Chiles was born on April 15,1947 and is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker, and as a hit-and-run driver in Creepshow 2.
13 Facts About Lois Chiles
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Lois Chiles had two brothers: Clay Kirkland Chiles, and William Edmonds Chiles, president and CEO of Bristow Group, Inc Lois Chiles was raised in Alice, Texas.
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Lois Chiles studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the former Finch College in New York City, where she was discovered by a Glamour editor looking for a young woman to feature on the cover of the magazine's annual college issue.
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Lois Chiles landed the job and soon had contracts with Wilhelmina Models in New York and Elite Models in Paris.
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Lois Chiles dated Don Henley but the relationship ended, and in 2005, she married money manager Richard Gilder.
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Lois Chiles enjoyed a successful modeling career in the early 1970s.
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Lois Chiles again shared the screen with Farrow in the Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile.
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Lois Chiles initially been approached to star in the previous Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, but she declined the role as she was taking a break from acting at the time.
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Lois Chiles appeared in a small role in the thriller Coma, one of the many films in which she played a murder victim.
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Lois Chiles appeared in the music video for the Tony Powers song Odyssey in 1982.
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Lois Chiles lost her youngest brother to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1979, which contributed to her decision to take a three-year hiatus from acting.
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Lois Chiles has since appeared as a stuffy high-school principal in the 1996 Disney film Wish Upon a Star, and as a frightened cruise passenger in the critically panned Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1997.
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Lois Chiles made a cameo appearance in the international release of the 1997 Bond spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, though her scene was cut from the United States release.