12 Facts About Maud Adams

Maud Adams is fluent in five languages, and at one time wanted to work as an interpreter.

Maud Adams was discovered in 1963 in a shop by a photographer who asked to take her picture, a picture he submitted to the Miss Sweden contest arranged by the magazine Allers; from there her modeling career took off.

Maud Adams's acting career started when she was asked to appear in the 1970 movie The Boys in the Band, in which she played a photo-shoot model in the opening credits.

Maud Adams was catapulted to international fame as the doomed mistress of the villain in The Man with the Golden Gun.

Maud Adams was so well regarded by James Bond film series producer Albert Broccoli that she was asked to return in Octopussy in 1983, this time as a lead, the title character—an exotic and mysterious smuggler, again opposite Roger Moore.

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Maud Adams had Swedish co-stars in her three Bond films: Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun; in Octopussy both Kristina Wayborn as Magda, and Mary Stavin as an Octopussy girl; and in A View to a Kill, in which she was an extra, Mary Stavin played agent Kimberley Jones, and Dolph Lundgren played Venz.

Maud Adams appeared in the US television series Emerald Point NAS in 1983 and 1984, but was unable to sustain her high profile, falling back on second-rate material such as Jane and the Lost City in 1987.

Maud Adams hosted the Swedish TV show Kafe Lulea in 1994, and played a guest role in the Swedish soap opera Vita logner in 1998.

Maud Adams guest-starred in That '70s Show in 2000, appearing as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts, along with Kristina Wayborn and Barbara Carrera; all four share the title of 'Bond girl'.

Maud Adams was the president of a cosmetics company called Scandinavian Biocosmetics.

Maud Adams married photographer Roy Maud Adams in 1966 and then divorced him in 1975.

Maud Adams married her current husband, private mediator and retired judge, Charles Rubin, in 1999.