Samantha Bond Biography

Fast Facts

• Starred as Juliet, opposite Kenneth Branagh's Romeo, in the 1986 Lyric Studio production of Romeo & Juliet
• Everyone at Pinewood Studios stopped working to watch the historic kiss between her Moneypenny and Pierce Brosnan's James Bond in 2002's Die Another Day
• Appeared opposite her husband, Alexander Hanson, in 2010's An Ideal Husband in the West End
• Performed in her first musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in 2014
• Donated a signed Downton Abbey board game to The TOY Project for a charity auction
• Is a director of the Royal Theatrical Fund and once raised 90,000 pounds in an afternoon