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Samantha Jane Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, who is best known for playing
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in four
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films during the Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on ''
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'' as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also known for originating the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the ''
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'' series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In her television career, she is known for her role as "Auntie Angela" in the sitcom '' Outnumbered'' and the villain Mrs Wormwood in the
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'' Doctor Who'' spin-off, ''
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''.


Early life

Samantha Bond is the daughter of actor
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and TV producer Pat Sandys, and is the sister of the actress Abigail Bond and the journalist Matthew Bond. Bond's paternal grandparents were
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. She was brought up in
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, in homes in
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and St Margarets. She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the
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.


Career


Early career

Bond's first acting role came as a student at age 21, in the original stage production of ''
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'', Denise Deegan's play about a girls school, which opened at
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's Nuffield Theatre in 1983. Her earliest television roles took place the same year: she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram) in the
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mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's ''
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'', and Rumpole's pupil in chambers "Miz Liz" Probert in the fourth series of ''
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''. In 1985, she appeared as Julia Simmons in the BBC's televised adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel '' A Murder is Announced'', part of the
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series.


Theatre

Bond's work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (the RSC) began in 1987, when she performed in three of the company's stage productions: ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''Lorca's Women''. In 1992, the RSC cast her as Rosalind in
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's '' As You Like It'', which she performed in their Stratford-upon-Avon and London theatres, and as Hermione in ''
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'', also at the company's two theatres. She then toured with the RSC as Hermione in 1993. Bond starred as the titular Amy in the Royal National Theatre's West End production of David Hare's play ''
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'', opposite
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, in 1997 and into early 1998. Later in 1998, she co-starred in playwright Shelagh Stephenson's '' The Memory of Water'', also in the West End. In 1999, Bond and Dench reprised their roles in ''Amy's View'' on
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for a limited run at the
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. Their performances garnered Bond a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and Dench the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play. Hare received a special citation from the
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. Bond revisited ''The Memory of Water'', making her directorial debut on a short touring production of the play in 2000, the same year it won an
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for Best New Comedy. She also performed in numerous stage productions during the 2000s, among them: Shakespeare's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' in 2001, as Hippolyta and Titania, again for the RSC; Donald Margulies's Pulitzer prize-winning ''
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'', as Karen, opposite her ''Downton Abbey'' co-star
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and directed by McGovern's husband Simon Curtis, in 2001; ''
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'' in 2002; and in Shakespeare's '' Macbeth'', as Lady Macbeth opposite
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in the title role, on tour in 2002 and 2003. Other stage performances include Oscar Wilde's ''
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'' in 2003; ''The Rubenstein Kiss'' in 2005;
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's '' Donkey's Years'' at London's Comedy Theatre in 2006; and
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's West End revival of
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's ''
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'' at the
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, in 2009 as Hannah, alongside another ''Downton Abbey'' co-star, Dan Stevens. The next decade brought Bond onstage in Oscar Wilde's '' An Ideal Husband'', as Mrs. Cheveley opposite her real-life actor husband Alexander Hanson as Mr. Cheveley, in 2010–2011, and as Nell in Passion Play by Peter Nichols in 2013. In 2014, Bond acted and sang in the West End musical production of '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'', playing the role of Muriel Eubanks. Bond stated in an interview that she hadn't sung on stage in over 30 years and had many moments during rehearsals where she turned her back toward anyone listening to her sing and frequently shook "with terror" at the prospect. In a Radio Times review of the play, the critic described Bond as "stage royalty" and "hilarious." In October and November 2017, Bond appeared in the English language premiere of
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's modern French farce, ''The Lie'', once again alongside her husband, Alexander Hanson, at an Off-West End theatre called the Menier Chocolate Factory.


Television and film

In 1989, Bond starred as Mary MacKenzie, a young Scottish woman, in the television adaptation of
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's novel ''
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'', and was featured in ''
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'', an independent fantasy film with
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in the title role. She appeared in a 1990 adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story '' The Adventure of the Cheap Flat'' for the series '' Agatha Cristie's Poirot'' on ITV, starring David Suchet as
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. Bond was also seen on ITV in an episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective drama series based on novels by
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, in 1992, and in a 1995 episode of '' Ghosts'', an anthology series of ghost stories on the BBC. In 1996, she portrayed Mrs. Weston in the television movie '' Jane Austen's Emma'', starring
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as Emma, a Meridian-ITV/A&E production that has been described as grittier and "more authentic" to Austen's story than the theatrical film starring Gwyneth Paltrow that was released the same year. The television movie was broadcast in the US in 1997 on
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. From 1995 to 2002, Bond played
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, M's secretary at
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, in the four James Bond films with Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007: ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. The role of Miss Moneypenny is the smallest role she ever played, yet the character remains a favorite among James Bond fans. In a BBC interview, Bond remarked that she retired from the role when Pierce Brosnan stepped down as the lead. However, she later appeared as Miss Moneypenny in an advertisement for London's 2012 Olympic bid, alongside previous Bond actor Roger Moore. Bond co-starred in 2004 with Peter Davison, as a married couple who uproot themselves to a remote island to save their marriage, in the ITV drama-comedy '' Distant Shores''. In 2007, she played the villain Mrs. Wormwood in the pilot episode of the BBC children's drama series ''
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'', a spin-off of '' Doctor Who''. She later came back to play the same character in the two-part finale of the show's second series, ''Enemy of the Bane''. Bond guest-starred in three episodes of the long-running and popular murder mystery series '' Midsomer Murders'': ''Destroying Angel'' in 2001, ''Shot at Dawn'' in 2008, both starring fellow RSC member
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in the lead role of DCI Tom Barnaby, as well as the first episode in 2011's series 14, ''Death in the Slow Lane''. The 2011 episode is notable for
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's debut as DCI John Barnaby, who takes over as the new detective in Midsomer after his cousin Tom Barnaby retired. From 2007 to 2014, Bond had a recurring role as Auntie Angela in the BBC's semi-improvised comedy series ''Outnumbered'', alongside
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,
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and
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. She appeared in all five series. From 2010 through 2015 (in the UK), Bond appeared as Lady Rosamund Painswick in the ensemble cast of ITV's drama series ''Downton Abbey'', written and produced by
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. The show quickly became an unprecedented worldwide hit. Each series was shown in the US on PBS's Masterpiece program one year following its broadcast in the UK; according to PBS, Downton Abbey rose to become the most popular drama ever shown on the station, and the most popular series in the history of Masterpiece. Lady Rosamund is the widowed, wealthy, and sometimes meddling sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. Bond's first appearance was in the last episode of the first series; she appeared in 18 episodes overall, throughout the entire show. The ITV show '' Home Fires'' featured Bond as Frances Barden, a woman working to strengthen connections among the women in her small English village by keeping the local ''
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'' operating during the early days of
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. The show premiered in the UK in 2015 and was cancelled in 2016, to which fans reacted by petitioning ITV to reinstate the popular drama, to no avail. It played in the US on PBS's Masterpiece in 2016 and 2017, where viewers were similarly disappointed to learn of the show's demise. The series creator, Simon Block, has stated he intends to continue the story in written form, as novels. In 2020 Miss Bond played Joanne Henderson in '' Death in Paradise'' (S9:E5).


Audiobooks

Bond has narrated a number of audiobooks including Mary Norton's ''The Borrowers'', Joanna Trollope's ''An Unsuitable Match'', Anthony Horowitz's '' Magpie Murders'' and Helen Fielding's ''Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries' 'Goldeneye''. She has most recently released S J Bennett's novel, ''The Windsor Knot''. She received an
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for ''Magpie Murders''.


Personal life

Bond lives in St Margarets, London, and has been married since 1989 to Alexander Hanson, with whom she has two children, Molly and Tom. She received an honorary doctorate from the
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in 2014.


Filmography


Film


Television


Narrator


Video games


Stage

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Daisy Pulls It Off ''Daisy Pulls It Off '' is a comedy play by Denise Deegan. It is an original script. It is a parody of wholesome adventure stories about life in a 1920s girls' English boarding school, in a similar genre to those by Angela Brazil. The original pr ...
'' ( Denise Deegan) at the Nuffield Theatre, 1983 *''
Les Liaisons Dangereuses ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (; English: ''Dangerous Liaisons'') is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and ...
'' ( Christopher Hampton) ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the Ambassadors Theatre, 1987 *''
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'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1987 *''Lorca's Women'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1987 *''Man of the Moment'' ( Alan Ayckbourn) at the Globe Theatre, 1990 *Rosalind in '' As You Like It'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1992 *Hermione in ''
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'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1992 *Rosalind in '' As You Like It'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1993 *Hermione in ''
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'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 1993 *Infanta in ''Le Cid'' ( Pierre Corneille) at the
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, 1994. Nominated for an
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for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. *Amy in ''
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'' ( David Hare), 1997 and 1998 *'' The Memory of Water'' ( Shelagh Stephenson), 1998 *Amy in ''
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'' ( David Hare) at the
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, 1999. Nominated for a
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for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Nominated for Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. *Hippolyta and Titania in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ( Royal Shakespeare Company) at the
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, 2001 *''
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'' (
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) at the Hampstead Theatre, 2001 *''
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'', 2002 * Lady Macbeth in '' Macbeth'', 2002 and 2003 *Mrs Arbuthnot in ''
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'' ( Oscar Wilde) at the Haymarket Theatre, 2003 *''
The Rubenstein Kiss ''The Rubenstein Kiss'' is the debut play by British playwright James Phillips, and the winner of the John Whiting Award and the TMA Award for Best New Play. The play, set in the 1950s and the 1970s, was inspired by an iconic photograph of the nu ...
'' ( James Phillips) at the Hampstead Theatre, 2005 *'' Donkey's Years'' (
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) at London's Comedy Theatre, 2006. Nominated for an
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for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. *Hannah in
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's West End revival of
Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...
's ''
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'' at the
Duke of York's Theatre The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster, London. It was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte, who retained ownership of the theatre until her death in 1935. Designed by th ...
, 2009 *Mrs. Cheveley in '' An Ideal Husband'' ( Oscar Wilde), 2010-2011 *Mrs Prentice in ''What The Butler Saw'' ( Joe Orton) at the Vaudeville Theatre, 2012 *Nell in '' Passion Play'' ( Peter Nichols), 2013 *Muriel Eubanks in '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'', 2014. Nominated for an
Olivier Award The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital. The awards were originally known a ...
for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category. Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical category at the
WhatsOnStage Awards The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com. The awards recognise performers and productions of British theatre with an emphasis on London's West ...
. *Appeared in English language premiere of
Florian Zeller Florian Zeller (; born 28 June 1979) is a French novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film director. He won the Prix Interallié for his 2004 novel ''The Fascination of Evil'' and several awards for his plays. He wrote and ...
's modern French farce, ''The Lie'', 2017


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, Samantha 1961 births Living people English film actresses English television actresses English voice actresses People educated at Godolphin and Latymer School English people of Welsh descent Royal Shakespeare Company members Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses English Shakespearean actresses Actresses from London English stage actresses People from Kensington