Lois Chiles
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Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947) is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her appearances as Dr. Yuri Zamohib.
Holly Goodhead appeared in 1979 James Bond's Moonraker as a hit and run pilot, as well as 1987's Creepshow 2, The Way We We Were, Death on the Nile, and Broadcast News.
Early life
Chiles was born in Houston, the granddaughter of Marion Clay Chiles and Barbara Wayne Kirkland Chiles. Eddie Chiles, her paternal uncle, was an oil tycoon and Texas Rangers owner. She had two brothers, Clay Kirkland Chiles (died 1979), and William Edmonds Chiles, founder and CEO of Bristow Group, Inc. She was born in Alice, Texas.
Chiles studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the former Finch College in New York City, where she was discovered by a Glamour reporter looking for a young woman to be featured on the magazine's annual college issue. She landed the internship and within a few weeks, she had contracts with Wilhelmina Models in New York and Elite Models in Paris. She trained under Roy London later in life. She dated Don Henley but the friendship ended, and Richard Gilder, the money manager, married her in 2005. They are both honorary co-chairs of Northfield Mount Hermon, a Massachusetts school. Gilder donated money to the school, and they named the Chiles Theater after her. Gilder died in 2020.
Career
Chiles enjoyed a fruitful modeling career in the 1970s. She made her big-screen debut in Together for Days, a 1972 blaxploitation film, followed by 1973's The Way We Were In which she appeared opposite Robert Redford and Barbra St. Strobbins as Carol Ann, Redford's college sweetheart. In 1974's The Great Gatsby, she appeared alongside Mia Farrow and, later, Robert Redford.
In 1978, she appeared in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile as Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, and in 1979, she appeared as NASA astronaut, scientist, and Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in Moonraker. Chiles had been invited to appear in the upcoming Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me initially, but she turned down the role because she was recovering from acting at the time. She appeared in a small part in Coma (1978), one of the many films in which she appeared as a murder victim.
In 1979, Chiles' youngest brother was lost to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leading to her decision to stop acting as her career seemed to be blossoming. Pauline Kael, a film critic who had never fully recovered, and she struggled to find roles of the caliber she had previously enjoyed, although film critic Pauline Kael gave her raves for her appearances in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty (1986). Jennifer Mack's role in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987) was also well-received, as had her role in George A. Romero's Creepshow 2 in 1988 as a hit-and-run driver. In 1989, she appeared uncredited in a short but effective cameo as the estranged mother of Ione Skye's character in Say Anything (1989).
She has since appeared in the critically panned Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1996 as a sneered high-school principal and as a terrified cruise passenger. She made a cameo appearance in the 1997 Bond spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, but her scene was barred from the US release.
Holly Harwood, J.R. Ewing's love interest, appeared in films ranging from 1982 to 1983, including performances in She Wrote and The Nanny (with another Bond girl, Ivana Milievi). The indie films Diary of a Hitman (1991) and Curdled (1996) were among the career's high points. Quentin Tarantino, a former Curdled actress, was recruited by a friend who had previously worked on the set of Curdled to appear in the two-episode finale of season five of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which he wrote and directed.
She teaches film acting at the University of Houston in the spring of 2002. "Being a Bond girl is a fun way to be remembered," Chiles has said, although she denies that "you can't live up to people's fantasies."