Shirley Jean Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 and is an English former actress and singer.
17 Facts About Shirley Eaton
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Shirley Eaton came out of retirement in 1999 to release her autobiography titled Golden Girl, which was a bestseller, and has released three more books throughout the 2000s.
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Shirley Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 in Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex, and brought up in the suburb of Kingsbury.
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All through the 1950s, Shirley Eaton was a singing star, both on the stage and on television, appearing with her own act in variety shows throughout the country and starring at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in her own solo singing act, as well as appearing in many films.
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Shirley Eaton participated in the British heat of the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Shirley Eaton appeared in The Belles of St Trinian's, two of the "Doctor" film series, three early Carry On films and worked with the Crazy Gang in Life Is a Circus.
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Shirley Eaton left comedy roles by appearing opposite Mickey Spillane in The Girl Hunters in which Spillane played his own literary creation Mike Hammer.
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Shirley Eaton made three episodes of The Saint, starring Roger Moore, including the pilot.
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Shirley Eaton was in a 1962 episode of the British television series Man of the World that was the pilot for the TV series The Sentimental Agent.
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Shirley Eaton's episode was included in a 1963 feature film of the series entitled Our Man in the Caribbean.
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Shirley Eaton achieved the most recognition for her performance as Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger.
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Shirley Eaton appeared on the cover of Life magazine in her gold-painted persona.
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Shirley Eaton appeared in a 2003 episode of the series MythBusters to dispel the rumor.
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Shirley Eaton was married to Colin Lenton Rowe from 1957 until his death in 1994.
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Shirley Eaton retired from acting to bring up her family and later commented in a 1999 interview with Steve Swires of Starlog magazine, "A career is a career, but you're a mother until you die".
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Shirley Eaton repeated this statement in an interview with the journalist James Davies on 18 June 2008, adding, "The most important thing for me was being a woman and having a family more than being a very famous glamorous actress".
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Shirley Eaton's later book is a picture book of all her film photos from throughout her career and the second book is full of her paintings and sculptures made over a lifetime and, more recently, her art and photography.