Apart from her fame arising from becoming a Playboy model, appearing on the cover of Playboy magazine in October 1981, Maud Adams is also known for having been the actress who played two different Bond girls in the James Bond movies, The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974 and Octopussy in 1983.

Born in Sweden in 1945 to a tax collector father and a controller mother Maud showed a talent for languages and with her command of five in total she became a translator.

But Maud’s big break came when she was working in a shop and came in contact with a photographer who took her photograph and entered her into the Miss Sweden contest, which she won. From there on Maud Adams’ career as a model was born.

Maud quickly moved to Paris and then on to New York City where she worked for Eileen Ford and became the highest paid model in the world.

The model’s acting career began when she appeared in The Boys in the Band in 1970 and then went on to star in Kojak with Telly Savalas and Hawaii Five O.

But it was her appearance in the James Bond movie with Roger Moore and Christopher Lee and again with Moore in Octopussy.

Maud’s acting career also saw her several years later as an extra in the Bond movie A View to a Kill in 1985.

 On her time as a Bond girl Maud stated,  “Looking back on it, how can you not really enjoy the fact that you were a Bond Girl? It’s pop culture and to be part of that is very nice.”

Maud guest starred on That ’70s Show in 2000, appearing as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts, along with Kristina Wayborn, her Octopussy co-star and Barbara Carrera, all four women have the title of Bond girl.

Maud has been married twice, with her first marriage to Roy Adams in 1966 and ending in divorce in 1976. She married her current husband, private mediator and retired judge, Charles Rubin, in 1999. She has no children.