Maud Adams

At 79 years old, Maud Adams has this physical status:

Maud Solveig Christina Adams (née Wikström) is a Swedish actress best known for her appearances in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and later in Octopussy (1983), as well as a brief appearance in A View to a Kill (1985).

Early life

Maud Solveig Christina Wikström, Sweden's daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller, was born in Lule, Sweden. She is fluent in five languages and had intended to work as an interpreter at one point. She was discovered in 1963 in a bookstore by a photographer who wanted to photograph her; a photograph he submitted to the Miss Sweden contest arranged by the magazine Allers; from there, her modeling career took off.

Personal life

Adams married photographer Roy Adams in 1966 and then divorced him in 1975. In 1999, she married her new husband, private mediator, and former judge Charles Rubin. Adams has no children from either marriage.

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Career

Adams migrated to Paris and later moved to New York City to work with Eileen Ford. In the beginning of her acting career, she was asked to appear in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band, in which she appeared as a photoshoot model in the opening credits. She appeared in Hawaii Five-O and Kojak, an American television series from the 1970s.

Adams rose to international prominence as the doomed mistress of the hero (Christopher Lee) in The Man with the Golden Arm (1974). In a short time, she appeared in Norman Jewison's futuristic Rollerball (1975) and several European films, as well as in Bruce Denn's obsession thriller Tattoo (1981). She was so well-known by James Bond film series producer Albert Broccoli that she was asked to return in Octopussy in 1983, this time as a leader and a mysterious smuggler, once more opposite Roger Moore. In her three Bond films, including Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight and Mary Stävin as an Octopussy girl, and In A View to a Kill (1985), in which she was an extra, Mary Stävin played Venz; and in A View to a Kill (1985), in which she was an extra, Dolph Lundgren played Venz. Adams says, "Looking back on it, how can you not really enjoy the fact that you were a Bond Girl" when portraying a Bond girl does not necessarily mean you were a success as an actor." It's pop culture, and being a part of it is wonderful."

Adams appeared in the U.S. television series Emerald Point NAS in 1983 and 1984, but she was unable to maintain her high profile in subsequent decades, including Jane and the Lost City in 1987. She appeared in Playboy in September of this year in an issue involving the Bond girls.

In 1994, she hosted Kafé Lule, a Swedish television show, and she appeared in the Swedish soap opera Vita lögner in 1998.

She appeared in That '70s Show in 2000, as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts, as well as Kristina Wayborn (her Octopussy co-star) and Barbara Carrera; all four of them share the title 'Bond girl.'

She was also the president of Scandinavian Biocosmetics, a cosmetics business.

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