1. Mary Rose Penso Martine Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica, to Ronald Stuart Davis Martine Beswick, a British father and Myrtle May a Portuguese-Jamaican mother.
12 Facts About Martine Beswick
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Martine Beswick is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series.
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Martine Beswick engaged in a "catfight" scene with her rival Vida.
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Martine Beswick later stated that there was as much bad feeling with Gur offscreen as on, with the film's director, Terence Young, encouraging Martine Beswick to get rough with Gur.
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Martine Beswick was incorrectly billed as "Martin Beswick" in the title sequence.
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Martine Beswick then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball.
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Martine Beswick had been away from the Caribbean so long that she was required to sunbathe constantly for two weeks before filming, to look like a local.
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Martine Beswick went on to appear in One Million Years BC opposite Raquel Welch, with whom she engaged in a catfight.
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Martine Beswick played Adelita in the well-regarded Spaghetti Western, A Bullet for the General opposite Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volonte and played a villainous role in the exploitation thriller The Penthouse.
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Martine Beswick then appeared in various Hammer Studio low-budget films, most notably Prehistoric Women and the gender-bending horror Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, in which she played the titular villainess.
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Martine Beswick then starred as the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's 1974 directorial debut Seizure, or Queen of Evil.
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Martine Beswick owned a removals business in London, but is semiretired except for her guest appearances at international Bond conventions.