Madeline Smith was born on 2 August 1949 and is an English actress.
17 Facts About Madeline Smith
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Madeline Smith is perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die, but had larger roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Tam-Lin, Theatre of Blood and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, and comedy films including Up Pompeii, Up the Front and Carry On Matron among others.
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Madeline Smith appeared in the films The Killing of Sister George, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, The Amazing Mr Blunden, and the musical film Take Me High with Cliff Richard.
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Madeline Smith's father owned an antiques shop and painting restoration business near Kew Gardens, and her Swiss mother was a translator.
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At the instigation of Barbara Hulanicki, founder of Biba, Madeline Smith became a model.
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Madeline Smith's first screen role was a small part in the film Escalation folled with a role in The Mini-Affair, although the latter was released first.
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Madeline Smith first worked for Hammer Film Productions in Taste the Blood of Dracula, billed as Maddy Madeline Smith and playing an East End prostitute.
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In 1972, Madeline Smith appeared in Carry On Matron in a scene alongside Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, and Joan Sims.
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Madeline Smith's role is therefore significant as Miss Caruso is the first Bond girl of the Roger Moore era.
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Madeline Smith acted opposite Alec Guinness in the original West End production of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus, supported Frankie Howerd again in the Volpone adaptation The Fly and the Fox, played Elma in a Cambridge Theatre Company revival of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing, and spent two years playing the female lead in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre.
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Madeline Smith featured in two episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, as two different characters.
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Madeline Smith was a member of the regular cast of the BBC2 series The End of the Pier Show and In The Looking Glass alongside satirists John Wells and John Fortune and composer Carl Davis.
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Madeline Smith starred in The Passionate Pilgrim, which was the final screen appearance of Eric Morecambe.
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In 2009, Madeline Smith interviewed in, and was the cover star of, the coffee-table book Hammer Glamour.
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Madeline Smith returned to acting in 2011 with an appearance in an episode of Doctors.
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Madeline Smith then followed this with a role in a docu-drama marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic before starring in the miniseries Dancing on the Edge and appearing in an episode of Not Going Out in 2014.
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Madeline Smith married actor David Buck in 1975; he died from cancer in 1989.