Honor Blackman Biography

Fast Facts

• Winner of a Special Award at the 2000 BAFTA Awards for "The Avengers․"
• Involved in Fairtrade, an organization that advocates that third-world producers be treated fairly
• Won a Golden Laurel for her third place win at the 1965 Laurel Awards for New Female Faces
• Was offered either a bicycle or elocution classes for her fifteenth birthday, and she chose the classes
• Temporarily worked in a job in civil service and worked as a dispatch rider during World War II
• Quote: "Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos․ I have never been a bimbo․"
• Perhaps best known for her roles as Cathy Gale in "The Avengers," Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger" and the goddess Hera in "Jason and the Argonauts․"