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Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo)
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Datastream
Actress: Maryam d'Abo
Character: Kara Milovy
Movie: The Living Daylights
Date of Birth: 27 December 1960
Place of Birth: London, USA
Trivia:
Is the cousin of Olivia d'Abo
Pleased to meet you
Bond first spies
Kara Milovy on a mission in Czechoslovakia.
The lovely girl with the cello appears at the window with
a snipers riffle to make her boyfriend's
defection to the west look real. Bond eventually catches
up with Kara at her ransacked apartment. She quickly believes
a story 007 spins for her, claiming to be a friend of Koskov
- Bond is actually hoping he can learn more about the Soviet
General's mock defection.
Caught In the Act
007 quickly earns Kara's trust with his cover-story, and
the romantic ties quickly strengthen between the pair.
She
is at first
reluctant
to believe
Koskov is a traitor to both Britain and the USSR, but when
convinced otherwise Kara will stop at nothing to assist
Bond on his mission. When the Koskov affair is thoroughly
wrapped up, Bond attends Kara's cello recital at Carnegie
before congratulating her personally in her luxurious dressing
room.
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Profile
The sweet and talented Kara Milovy is sucked into the world of espionage when
her boyfriend carries out a sly get-rich-quick scheme, betraying both the Russians
and the British. She is initially emotional and suspicious of 007's scheme
to track down Koskov but as they journey from country to country on the tail
of
the
rogue General, Kara proves to be a breath of fresh air for 007 and quickly
falls for the British agent.
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a world-renowned concert violinist and at the end of the
mission, with the help of the Secret Service, she is able
to lead an orchestra at Carnegie Hall, New York. Kara was
put in the firing line after agreeing to shoot blanks at
Koskov, making his defection to the British look genuine.
Luckily, 007 - who is protecting Koskov - recognized her
lack of marksmanship and only grazes the lovely cellist.
Memorable Quotes
Bond: "We have nothing to declare!"
Kara: "Except a cello!"
Kara: "You were wonderful! We're free!"
Bond: "Kara, we're inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan!"
Kara: "I've been such a fool."
Bond: "So have we both."
Kara: "I owe everything to Georgi: my place
at the Conservatoire, my Strad-"
Bond: "Your cello's a Stradivarius?"
Kara: "A famous one! The Lady Rose."
Bond: "Quite a present." |
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Biography
Born in 1960 in London to a Georgian mother
and Dutch father, Maryam d'Abo grew up traveling across
Europe wherever work took her family. Since the young
age of eleven, d'Abo has claimed to
have wanted to be an actress. After school, she studied at
the London Drama Centre and during her time at college, found
work as a model.
Her first on-screen role was in "Xtro" - a 1983 brutal cult sci-fi. She would go on to have a host of bit-parts in film and television, including the Karen Allen starrer, "Until September" (1984) and Taylor Hackford's "White Nights" the following year.
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In 1984, d'Abo auditioned for the role of Bond's foreign
contact, Pola Ivanova in "A View To A Kill". Ultimately
she lost out to Fiona Fullerton, but a young Barbara Broccoli
admired
d'Abo's
natural talent and invited her back to an audition for
the following Bond picture, this time starring Timothy
Dalton.
D'Abo was introduced to the world of James Bond on 5th October 1986 with a press conference, where she and Dalton fronted up to a slew of reporters and flashing cameras. She came to Hollywood attention with her role as the aspiring cellist, Kara, and further promoted the picture by appearing in a Playboy spread, timed to coincide with the film's release.
After her brush with Bond, d'Abo went on to star in "Something
Is Out There" a short-lived sci-fi adventure series.
She had a steady run of films in the 1990s including "Tropical
Heat" and a notable guess-role in the black-comedy "Tales
From The Crypt". She worked opposite French actor,
Gérard Depardieu in 2004's "San Antonio" and
more recently appeared in the alternate horror flick "Tresspassing".
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In 2003, d'Abo married acclaimed director Hugh Hudson
and in 2005 she headed up a new documentary, "Bearing Witness",
focusing on female journalists working in disaster and war zones.
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