Maryam d Abo

Biography

Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960)[1] is a British actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.

D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film Xtro (1982), playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien. She appeared in the film Until September (1984) and had small roles in television mini-series based on Sidney Sheldon's novels Master of the Game (1984) and If Tomorrow Comes. 

She also appeared in Oscar winner Taylor Hackford's film White Nights (1985) 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 (1985), directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack. Other credits include Arthur the King (1985).

She 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, and then worked in a 1987 French TV movie, Les Idiots (The Idiots), written by Gérard Brach, with Jean Carmet and Jean-Pierre Marielle.

D'Abo had a starring role in The Living Daylights (1987) as Kara Milovy, the sweet and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist and would-be sniper who falls for James Bond. As a tie-in with the film, she also appeared in a Bond-themed Playboy cover and multi-page pictorial in the September 1987 issue, but later said in an interview with People magazine that "I wouldn't do those pictures now... I've learned a lot since then".

In 2007, she had surgery for a brain hemorrhage; after recovering, she was inspired to meet other people who had similar experiences. She then worked on and produced a 2009 documentary on the topic.

In 2009, she had a supporting role in the British period fantasy thriller Dorian Gray. She appeared in the 2014 Indian film Tigers directed by Danis Tanovic, and will make her return to the horror genre in 2024 with the British film The Baby in the Basket.

D'Abo is signed to Models 1. In 2015, she modeled for fashion retailer JD Williams' AW 15 collection which includes clothing for women in their 50s.