Lois Chiles
(Holly Goodhead)

Name: Lois Chiles
Character: Holly Goodhead
Movie: Moonraker
Date of Birth: 15/04/47
Place of Birth: Alice, Texas, USA

The most intelligent of the Bond girls to date, Dr. Holly Goodhead is a NASA trained astrophysicist working for the CIA. She teams up with Bond and pilots the shuttle which takes them to Drax's hidden space station.

Most memorable quote:
Bond: A woman!
Holly: Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond.

Biography

Chiles was happy to be cast as the brainiest of the Bond Girls. Her Dr. Holly Goodhead, in 1979's Moonraker, was a NASA astronaut, a CIA agent and an astrophysicist. Says Chiles: "Roger [Moore] used to tease me a lot for asking so many questions about our scenes." Moore was accustomed to costarring with neophytes. But Chiles, an experienced actress, had played supporting roles in 1973's The Way We Were and 1974's The Great Gatsby. The kidding stopped when Chiles, then 32, learned during filming in Paris that her brother Clay, 25, was losing his battle with Hodgkin's disease. After Moonraker wrapped, she jetted back to their hometown, Houston, to donate platelets every 10 days to Clay, who died a short time later. Chiles went on to play an oil tycoon on Dallas (1982-83), a reporter in 1987's Broadcast News and a sexy Manhattanite in Lush Life, a 1994 TV movie. Next she gets the Quentin Tarantino treatment opposite Billy Baldwin in Curdled, due next spring. She lives in a two-bedroom house in Santa Monica -- a tumultuous three-year romance with rocker Don Henley having ended in the early '80s. (He's now married to model Sharon Summerall.) "He's a great guy," is all she'll say, and she is similarly circumspect about the current man in her life. "I'm everyone's godmother and spend all my time at the toy store," she says.