Samantha Jane Bond was born on 27 November 1961 and is an English actress.
25 Facts About Samantha Bond
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Samantha Bond played Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the Pierce Brosnan era, and appeared in Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham.
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Samantha Bond originated the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series.
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Samantha Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Samantha Bond was brought up in London and Richmond-upon-Thames, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets.
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Samantha Bond attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Samantha Bond's first acting role came as a student at age 21, in the original stage production of Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan's play about a girls school, which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983.
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Samantha Bond then toured with the RSC as Hermione in 1993.
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Samantha Bond starred as the titular Amy in the Royal National Theatre's West End production of David Hare's play Amy's View, opposite Judi Dench, in 1997 and into early 1998.
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Samantha Bond revisited The Memory of Water, making her directorial debut on a short touring production of the play in 2000, the same year it won an Olivier award for Best New Comedy.
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In 2014, Samantha Bond acted and sang in the West End musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, playing the role of Muriel Eubanks.
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Samantha Bond stated in an interview that she had not sung on stage in over 30 years and was nervous at the prospect.
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In 1989, Samantha Bond starred as Mary MacKenzie, a young Scottish woman, in the television adaptation of Oswald Wynd's novel The Ginger Tree, and alongside Tim Robbins in an independent fantasy film, Erik the Viking.
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Samantha Bond appeared in a 1990 adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story The Adventure of the Cheap Flat for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot on ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
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Samantha Bond was seen on ITV in an episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective drama series based on novels by Colin Dexter, in 1992, and in a 1995 episode of Ghosts, an anthology series of ghost stories on the BBC.
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From 1995 to 2002, Samantha Bond played Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary at MI6, opposite Dench as M and Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day.
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Samantha Bond co-starred in 2004 with Peter Davison, as a married couple who uproot themselves to a remote island to save their marriage, in the ITV drama-comedy Distant Shores.
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Samantha Bond later came back to play the same character in the two-part finale of the show's second series, Enemy of the Bane.
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Samantha Bond guest-starred in three episodes of the murder mystery series Midsomer Murders: Destroying Angel in 2001, Shot at Dawn in 2008, both starring fellow RSC member John Nettles in the lead role of DCI Tom Barnaby, as well as the first episode in 2011's series 14, Death in the Slow Lane.
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From 2007 to 2014, Samantha Bond had a recurring role as Auntie Angela in the BBC's semi-improvised comedy series Outnumbered, alongside Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner and David Ryall.
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From 2010 through 2015, Samantha Bond appeared as Lady Rosamund Painswick in the ensemble cast of ITV's drama series Downton Abbey, written and produced by Julian Fellowes.
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In 2020 Samantha Bond played Joanne Henderson in Death in Paradise.
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In September 2023, Samantha Bond starred in the Channel 5 drama series The Inheritance, appearing alongside Rob James-Collier, Jemima Rooper, Gaynor Faye and Adil Ray.
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Samantha Bond has most recently released S J Bennett's novel, The Windsor Knot.
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Samantha Bond received an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton in 2014.