Molly Peters (15 March 1939 – 30 May 2017), born Vivien Mollie Rudderham, was an English actress and model best known for her role as
Bond girl Patricia Fearing in the James Bond film ''
Thunderball''.
Career
Molly Peters started out as a model and was discovered by film director
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She appeared in several films during the 1960s. Her best-known appearance was the role of
Bond girl, Patricia Fearing or Pat, a nurse who takes care of
James Bond (
Sean Connery
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) while he is on holiday at her health clinic in ''
Thunderball'' (1965). Peters was the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen in the Bond series.
Peters appeared in ''
Playboy'', in the November 1965 issue. Her appearance was as part of a pictorial essay titled "James Bond's Girls", by
Richard Maibaum.
According to the special edition DVD of ''Thunderball'', Peters' short film career was the result of a disagreement between her and her agent.
The specifics of the disagreement were not revealed, other than according to Peters, her agent at the time of ''Thunderball'' held her to her contract agreement of representation because of the mega-successful box-office hit of the fourth James Bond film in 1965. It was only many years later, when the fame, the glamour and the chaos from the release of ''Thunderball'' had faded, that her contractual agreement ended; and so had any modelling and/or film prospects.
Personal life
When she was young, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she gave up for adoption. Peters later married and lived with her husband in
Ipswich, Suffolk. She and her husband had a son, who has since died. In 2011, Peters suffered a mild
stroke
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Death
Peters died on 29 May 2017, at the age of 78 at Taunton Hospital, Somerset.
Filmography
Films
Television
References
External links
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1939 births
2017 deaths
English film actresses
People from Walsham-le-Willows
20th-century English actresses
English television actresses