Margaret Ann Nolan was an English actress, visual artist and glamour model.
16 Facts About Margaret Nolan
1.
2.
Margaret Nolan appeared in Goldfinger, A Hard Day's Night and six Carry On films, and regularly appeared on screen from the 1960s to the 1980s.
3.
Margaret Nolan's mother Molly was an English nurse and her father Jack was an Irish army clerk.
4.
Margaret Nolan reverted to her birth name as soon as she began to find acting roles, appearing in numerous television shows, theatre productions and films.
5.
Margaret Nolan appeared in one of the first episodes of the television spy thriller The Saint with Roger Moore.
6.
Margaret Nolan played the role of Dink, Bond's masseuse, in the James Bond film Goldfinger released in 1964.
7.
Margaret Nolan was painted gold and wore a gold bikini for Robert Brownjohn's title-sequence, advertisements and soundtrack-cover.
8.
In 2012, Margaret Nolan gave her first interview concerning her experiences as the model.
9.
Margaret Nolan was known for five BBC series with Spike Milligan and in 2013 published a short essay on her time working with him.
10.
Also in 2011, Margaret Nolan returned to the screen after a gap of nearly three decades.
11.
Margaret Nolan starred in a role especially written for her by Ann Cameron, in Yvonne Deutschman's The Power of Three.
12.
In 1991, Margaret Nolan moved to Andalusia in Spain to a rural farmhouse in the mountains where she practised permaculture.
13.
In 2009, early publicity shots of Margaret Nolan inspired screen-prints by Brighton-based graffiti artist Hutch.
14.
Margaret Nolan was married to English playwright Tom Kempinski in 1967 and divorced in 1972.
15.
Margaret Nolan died of cancer on 5 October 2020 at her home in Belsize Park, London, at age 76.
16.
Margaret Nolan had sought to write a memoir with Paul Stenning.