Lois Chiles

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Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947 in Houston , Texas ) is an American actress . Her best-known roles are the Linnet Ridgeway in the Agatha Christie film version Death on the Nile and the CIA agent Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker . Chiles became known not least through her appearance on the television series Dallas as Holly Harwood , heiress of an oil company.

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Lois Cleveland Chiles was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Alice , Texas. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the former Finch College in New York , where she was discovered by an editor of Glamor magazine who was looking for a young woman for the cover of the annual college issue. She got the job and soon had a contract with the Wilhelmina Models modeling agency . She retained her top model status during the early 1970s before making her film debut in Together For Days in 1972. For her career as an actress she used the name Lois Chiles. As early as 1973, she played the college love of Redford's film character in the film As We Were at the side of Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand . A year later she played an important supporting role in The Great Gatsby . She appeared in the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Death on the Nile in 1978 and had a leading role with Peter Ustinov , Mia Farrow and Bette Davis . In 1979 she played the beautiful and clever CIA agent Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker - Top Secret at the side of Roger Moore . Originally, she should have played the role of Russian agent Major Amassova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me . However, this role was then given to Barbara Bach .

Lois Chiles appeared in the Disney film When Wishes Come True in 1996 and as a terrified cruise passenger in Speed ​​2: Cruise Control in 1997 . In the same year, Chiles made a cameo appearance in the Bond - Persiflage Austin Powers - The Sharpest That Her Majesty has to offer , whereby her scene was cut out of the US version.

Chiles has also made some television appearances, such as Holly Harwood , JR's lover in the series Dallas from 1982 to 1983, and as a guest actress in the television series Murder Is Her Hobby in 1990. In 2005 she was introduced by a friend Quentin Tarantino with she had previously worked together for the role of the mother of the fictional character Nick Stoke in the two-episode finale of the fifth season of the series CSI: On the Trail of the Criminals . Tarantino wrote the scripts for the episodes and was also a director.

At times Chiles taught acting at the University of Houston .

Shortly after the death of her younger brother, she ended a three-year relationship with Don Henley , a member of the rock group Eagles . Her father M. Clay Chiles (brother of the oil tycoon and Texas Rangers owner Eddie Chiles ) died in 1997, a loss that coincided with her own brief, successful battle with breast cancer . In 2005 she married the first time, the Wall Street - securities traders and philanthropists Richard Gilder. She currently divides her time between her Maine , New York City , Los Angeles, and Houston residences .

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SURNAME Chiles, Lois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chiles, Lois Cleveland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas , USA