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Maryam d'Abo (born December 27, 1960 in London, England to a Georgian mother and Dutch father) is an actress. Her first notable performance was as Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights
. She is first cousin to the singer, Mike d'Abo and second cousin to actress Olivia d'Abo.

Raised in Paris and Geneva, Maryam decided she wanted to be an actress at the age of 11 based on her love of James Bond movies. She studied at London’s Drama Centre while working as a model in commercials. In 1983 she made her screen debut in the low-budget British sci-fi horror film Xtro
, playing a French au pair girl who becomes an alien breeding chamber or human incubator. Xtro
was briefly vilified as a so-called video nasty and is often mentioned in the same breath as many other video nasties of the early 80s, but in fact it was granted an uncut video certificate by the BBFC shortly after its successful cinema run. Talking to Femme Fatales magazine in 1994, d’Abo remembered it as "a terrible movie".

She remains best known for her role as Kara Milovy, the innocent and vulnerable Czechoslovakian cellist who falls for James Bond in The Living Daylights
. It remains her personal favourite film, and she did a Playboy (magazine) cover in September 1987 to coincide with the film’s release. After that she had a well-received role as an alien visitor in the science fiction television miniseries, Something is Out There, which was followed by a short-lived NBC series of the same name, which was cancelled after just six episodes. In 1992 she had a critically acclaimed supporting role as a pretentious stained-glass artist in the quirky, low-budget British comedy Leon the Pig Farmer, which enjoyed a positive reception at prestigious film festivals in Venice, London, Edinburgh and Palm Springs. Since then she’s had negligible roles in a lot of low-budget, straight-to-video action, horror and fantasy films, as well as guest spots on television shows like Tales From the Crypt, Red Shoe Diaries and Murder, She Wrote. She played Keira Knightley’s mother in the 2002 TV miniseries version of Doctor Zhivago
and was Queen Hecuba in the Emmy-nominated miniseries Helen of Troy. In 2005 she had a small role in the dark, well-received French film L’Enfer (Hell), co-written by the late Krzysztof Kieslowski and starring Emmanuelle Beart and Carole Bouquet.

In 2002, d'Abo co-wrote Bond Girls Are Forever, a tribute to an elite club of women that have played the role of a "Bond girl". The book later became a DVD exclusive documentary featuring d'Abo and other famed Bond girls, including Ursula Andress. The documentary was released as a gift with the purchase of Die Another Day
on DVD.

In November 2003, d'Abo married Hugh Hudson, the Oscar-nominated British director of Chariots of Fire
, Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
and Revolution.

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