11 Facts About Maryam d'Abo

1.

Maryam d'Abo decided to do a foundation course at the London College of Printing at 18, but abandoned those studies in order to go to drama school at Drama Centre London.

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Maryam d'Abo left after one term in order to make her film debut.

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Maryam d'Abo appeared in Oscar winner Taylor Hackford's film White Nights and in an uncredited role as a woman pouring champagne to Klaus Maria Brandauer at a hunting party in the Oscar winning Out of Africa, directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack.

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Maryam d'Abo worked on the French stage in Lyon playing Varinia in Spartacus directed by Jacques Weber in 1981, played Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Grenier de Toulouse in 1982, then worked in a 1987 French TV movie, Les Idiots, written by Gerard Brach, with Jean Carmet and Jean-Pierre Marielle.

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Maryam d'Abo featured in the music video to the 1987 single 'So The Story Goes' by British band Living In A Box.

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On television, Maryam d'Abo played Ta'Ra, an alien medical officer in the science fiction miniseries Something Is Out There, which was followed by a six-episode NBC mini-series of the same name, and she played Anne Summerton in the TV adaptation of Jeffrey Archer's novel Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less directed by Clive Donner.

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Maryam d'Abo appeared in the 1994 film The Browning Version and starred in Timelock.

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8.

Maryam d'Abo reunited with her James Bond director John Glen for a guest-starring role on the television series Space Precinct and for the feature film The Point Men.

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Maryam d'Abo played the mother of Lara in the television miniseries version of Doctor Zhivago, and she was Queen Hecuba in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Helen of Troy.

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Maryam d'Abo had a small role in the French film L'Enfer, directed by Danis Tanovic whose stars included fellow Bond Girl Carole Bouquet.

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Maryam d'Abo appeared in the 2014 Indian film Tigers directed by Danis Tanovic.