See Bond Girl Gloria Hendry Now at 73 years

She played live and let die and was James Bond's first black interest.


In 1973,Link Gloria Hendry makes the story story. The first oneMovie James Bond,Dr. Nowas published in 1962 and 11 years later, the spy had his first black love interest when Hendry played Rosie Carver inLive and Let Die, the eighth obligation film. Hendry was not the first black bond girl, period - this title belongs toTrina Parks, who played the naughty thumper inDiamonds are eternal-But it was the first to find romance with 007.

Following its revolutionary role inLive and Let DieHendry continued to act and appeared in a number of BLAXPLOITATION action movies. And, while his interim career has slowed in recent years, she has returned to the screen for some movies. Read more about Hendry, his career and reflections on Bond.

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She shot the best role of her role as a break.

Gloria Hendry and Roger Moore in
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In addition to putting in frontRoger Moore inLive and Let Die, Hendry is known for the movies of the 1970sBlack césar,Hell in Harlem,Black Belt Jones, and more. In the 1980s and early 1990s, she guided several television shows, includingFalcon ridge,hunter, andDoogie Houser, M.D.She has appeared in some projects since then, more recently 2012Fecky, 2019'sThe honor of a brotherand 2021Black snow.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

She published a memory.

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Hendry wrote an autobiography,Gloria: Bond and everything, which was published in 2008. The book tells readers of his life, his career and his life to become a bond.

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She is also branched in other careers.

Gloria Hendry in Los Angeles in 2018
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Before becoming an actor, Hendrystudied to be a legal secretary, as she explained to Commanderbond.net. According toEncyclopedia of African-American actresses in film and television,She was once the assistant The Legal Secretary of the New York Naacp Office and also worked as a rabbit and a Playboy model. An interview with VOA explains thatHendry continued a right career After removing to act somewhat.

She always looks at a bond girl.

Trina Parks, Naomie Harris, Halle Berry, and Gloria Hendry at The Black Women of Bond Tribute in 2015
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Hendry and other Black Bonds since over the yearswere honored in 2015 At African American, the black women of the Black Association of the Association Association. According toEbony, Hendry said at the event: "I had a hotel room Penthouse in London at the Pinewood Studios. I was treated as if I thought I played in the movie, [as if] I played bond! They did all my clothes. It was great. It was great.! "

Nevertheless, it was not quite smooth that the first black woman was a person of interest of bond love. "You do not realize that you are pedestrian when you are turning around,",Hendry said Video on the edge of the Pacific in 2013. "Everything you know is that you work. And all you know is that they call you for a particular thing to do and that you do not really know How, but you do not really know. " She added that some of her scenes were removed from the film in some parts of the country and the world. "On the one hand, people loved people, on the other hand, rejected him," Hendry said.

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