Maryam d’abo Net Worth

Maryam d’abo's Quotes

• [In 1995, on the aftermath of starring in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987)] It gave me a dream start but it turned into a nightmare I couldn't shake off. I left England for Hollywood and wasn't ready for it at all. I thought I could cope, but I just couldn't do it.
• [In 2012, on her acting career] I'm an old one now. It's as simple as that, there are very few roles, so I probably have a couple of auditions a year, if that. I've come to terms with it, but yes, I do miss it. Of course I'd like to see more roles for older women, but the biggest target audience are the 18-year-olds who don't want to see 50 or 60 year-olds on screen. How many older stars do you have? Meryl Streep, Meryl Streep and Meryl Streep.
• [on her Double Obsession (1992) costar and friend's death in 1996 at age 41] Los Angeles is not a nurturing place. You have to be a survivor to be here, and it gets harder after 30. Margaux Hemingway was warm and trusting; I don't think she was cut out for this town.
• [In 1987, she told the "New York Times" as she was promoting her leading role in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987)] I realize that many of the Bond girls have never done anything after their one appearance opposite 007. But I don't have any fears of that happening. And if it does, it's my own fault.
• [In 2016, when asked if being a James Bond girl was a curse] No, I can only blame myself....It's only a curse from the outside perspective, because "I haven't done anything since Bond" - well, it's not true, I've worked non-stop. But I've never done anything with the same impact as Bond.

Interesting Facts about Maryam d’abo

1. Georgian mother and Dutch father. Brought up in Paris and Geneva.
2. Cousin of singer Mike d'Abo, and hence first cousin once removed of his daughter, Olivia d'Abo.
3. Nov. 2002 - Hosted Bond Girls Are Forever (2002) on the American Movie Classics network, showcasing the allure of "Bond Girls" from the James Bond series of films. In addition to sharing her own stories and experiences from The Living Daylights (1987), she interviewed such past and present Bond Girls as Halle Berry, Jill St. John, the first Bond Girl Ursula Andress, and Sophie Marceau.
4. Has an admitted phobia of explosions.
5. Almost died in 2006 from a brain hemorrhage during a workout.
6. She and her husband Hugh Hudson worked on a documentary about brain trauma, inspired by Maryam's 2006 real-life surgery from a brain aneurysm.
7. In 1986, when she played the role of the Bond girl, she made sure that she didn't come across as a bimbo. Her passion for women's rights continued to 2011, when she joined a women's rights march that culminated at London's arts and culture complex, the Southbank Centre, hosting "Women of the World," a festival showcasing women's achievement.
8. Her mother headed the UNICEF greeting card operation in Europe.
9. Regretted her nude layout in "Playboy" magazine to promote the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987). She said that she really disliked the pictures, because they were so pedestrian.
10. Director John Glen claims that she is one of his favorite actresses, since he cast her in three projects: The Living Daylights (1987), Space Precinct: Takeover (1995) and The Point Men (2001).
11. Was rejected for the role of the Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985) because she appeared too young. It went to Fiona Fullerton.
12. Though she is not French, French is her native language, since she grew up there. She has also acted on the French stage, and claimed that she is much quicker and extroverted in French since it is a Romance language.
13. Her father was descended from a Finnish family that moved to Holland when Finland was occupied by Sweden, and they eventually to England. He had contracted meningitis shortly before Maryam was born, and the disease destroyed his brain; it made him an invalid, and unable to speak, until he died 35 years later.
14. Her maternal grandfather was a Czarist army general from the Republic of Georgia and her grandmother was from the wealthiest family in Georgia. When the Soviets took over in 1922, the French government invited them to emigrate. Penniless in Paris, her grandfather fell back on one of the delicacies of his native land and actually made yogurt in France for a living. He lived to be 96 years old.
15. She almost got married when she was 22 years old and later said that she was glad it didn't happen because she wasn't ready for marriage then.
16. She first met her husband, director Hugh Hudson for the leading role of Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), but she felt that he already had somebody else in mind for the role. (Andie MacDowell played Jane in the finished film.) She didn't connect with him until 15 years later when she met him at a dinner party. They became involved and married four years later in 2003.
17. Introduced her friend Pricilla Phillips to Roger Waters at a restaurant. Pricilla became Roger's third wife.
18. She didn't know her cousin Olivia d'Abo very well, until she moved to California, and they both decided to purchase a house together in 1988.
19. She became friends with Margaux Hemingway when they acted together in Double Obsession (1992). She believed that Hemingway could have been a good actress if she had formal training, and that the only reason she was cast in the film was because of her name. She also believed that her death in 1996 at age 41 was accidental. She remembered her not as a victim, but as a sweet, vulnerable and caring friend; a woman who may have been injured by a too early brush with the limelight but was not destroyed by it; someone who struggled to overcome her disappointment and find meaning in the ordinary events of her life.
20. She beat out Virginia Hey for the role of the main Bond girl in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987), but Hey did secure a small role in the film.