Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight)

Name: Britt Ekland
Character: Mary Goodnight
Movie: The Man With The Golden Gun
Date of Birth: 06/10/42
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

IMary Goodnight is Bond's beautiful but inept contact in the Far East. She attempts to prove her worth, but ends up unwittingly bundled into the boot of a flying car. Goodnight starts out in hostile rejection of Bond's amorous advances, but soon succombs to his sophisticated charms.

Most memorable quote:
Goodnight: Do you mean I've been in here for two hours?

Biography

"It was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done," says Ekland, of her comic turn as Bond's Girl Friday Mary Goodnight in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun. "But it did nothing for my career." Perhaps not, though the Swedish-born actress did eventually turn up in 1989's Scandal as a decadent English socialite sporting gold-painted nipples. "But you can get more publicity [from a Bond film] than you've ever had in your life," she says. Actually, Ekland (whose former beaux include Warren Beatty, Ryan O'Neal and Rod Stewart) has hardly lacked for attention. At 20 she wed actor Peter Sellers, then 37. Their five-year union produced a daughter, actress Victoria Sellers, now 30. She also has a son, Nikolai, from her relationship with record honcho Lou Adler, now an L.A. restaurateur. In 1980 she took up with Stray Cats drummer Jim McDonnell. (She was 38, he was 20.) Married four years later and divorced in 1992, they have a son, Thomas Jefferson, who lives with Ekland in London and L.A. Currently single, Ekland cut short her stage tour last spring in the farce Run for Your Wife because, she says, "you can't do theater with a little child. There's a car full of dirty laundry waiting to be done."