Samantha Bond

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Samantha Jane Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress. She played Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the Pierce Brosnan era, and appeared in Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. On television, she played "Auntie Angela" in the sitcom Outnumbered and the villain Mrs Wormwood in the CBBC Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures. She also originated the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. She is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Early life

Bond is the daughter of actor Philip Bond and television producer Pat Sandys, and is the sister of the actress Abigail Bond and the journalist Matthew Bond.<ref name="genevieveroberts">Template:Cite news</ref> Bond's paternal grandparents were Welsh. She was brought up in London and Richmond-upon-Thames, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets.<ref name= Brocklehurst>Template:Cite web</ref> She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Career

Early career

Bond's first acting role came as a student at age 21, in the original stage production of Daisy Pulls It Off, Denise Deegan's play about a girls school, which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her earliest television roles took place the same year: she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram) in the BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, and Rumpole's pupil in chambers "Miz Liz" Probert in the fourth series of Rumpole of the Bailey. In 1985, she appeared as Julia Simmons in the BBC's televised adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel A Murder Is Announced, part of the Miss Marple series.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Theatre

Bond's work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (the RSC) began in 1987, when she performed in three of the company's stage productions: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hero and Leander, and Lorca's Women.<ref name=RSCsearch>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1992, the RSC cast her as Rosalind in Shakespeare's As You Like It, which she performed in their Stratford-upon-Avon and London theatres, and as Hermione in The Winter's Tale, also at the company's two theatres.<ref name=RSCsearch/> She then toured with the RSC as Hermione in 1993.Template:Citation needed

Bond starred as the titular Amy in the Royal National Theatre's West End production of David Hare's play Amy's View, opposite Judi Dench, in 1997 and into early 1998. Later in 1998, she co-starred in playwright Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Water, also in the West End.Template:Citation needed

In 1999, Bond and Dench reprised their roles in Amy's View on Broadway for a limited run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Their performances garnered Bond a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play, and Dench the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Hare received a special citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bond revisited The Memory of Water, making her directorial debut on a short touring production of the play in 2000, the same year it won an Olivier award for Best New Comedy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She also performed in numerous stage productions during the 2000s, among them: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2001, as Hippolyta and Titania, again for the RSC;<ref name=RSCsearch/> Donald Margulies's Pulitzer prize-winning Dinner with Friends,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as Karen, opposite her Downton Abbey co-star Elizabeth McGovern and directed by McGovern's husband Simon Curtis, in 2001;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Vagina Monologues in 2002;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth opposite Sean Bean in the title role, on tour in 2002 and 2003.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Other stage performances include Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance in 2003;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Rubenstein Kiss in 2005;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years at London's Comedy Theatre in 2006;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and David Leveaux's West End revival of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the Duke of York's Theatre, in 2009 as Hannah, alongside another Downton Abbey co-star, Dan Stevens.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The next decade brought Bond onstage in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, as Mrs. Cheveley opposite her real-life actor husband Alexander Hanson as Mr. Cheveley, in 2010–2011,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=dontcall>Template:Cite news</ref> and as Nell in Passion Play by Peter Nichols in 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2014, Bond acted and sang in the West End musical production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, playing the role of Muriel Eubanks. Bond stated in an interview that she had not sung on stage in over 30 years and was nervous at the prospect.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In a Radio Times review of the play, the critic described Bond as "stage royalty" and "hilarious."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In October and November 2017, Bond appeared in the English language premiere of Florian Zeller's modern French farce, The Lie, once again alongside her husband, Alexander Hanson, at an Off-West End theatre called the Menier Chocolate Factory.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Television and film

In 1989, Bond starred as Mary MacKenzie, a young Scottish woman, in the television adaptation of Oswald Wynd's novel The Ginger Tree, and alongside Tim Robbins in an independent fantasy film, Erik the Viking.<ref name="tv">Template:Cite web</ref>

She appeared in a 1990 adaptation of Agatha Christie's short story The Adventure of the Cheap Flat for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot on ITV, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Bond was also seen on ITV in an episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective drama series based on novels by Colin Dexter, in 1992, and in a 1995 episode of Ghosts, an anthology series of ghost stories on the BBC. In 1996, she portrayed Mrs. Weston in the television movie Jane Austen's Emma,<ref name="tv"/> starring Kate Beckinsale as Emma, a Meridian-ITV/A&E production that has been described as grittier and "more authentic" to Austen's story than the theatrical film starring Gwyneth Paltrow that was released the same year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

From 1995 to 2002, Bond played Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary at MI6, opposite Dench as M and Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies,<ref name="tv"/> The World Is Not Enough,<ref name="tv"/> and Die Another Day.<ref name="tv"/> The role of Miss Moneypenny is the smallest role she ever played,<ref name=dontcall/> yet the character remains a favorite among James Bond fans. In a BBC interview, Bond remarked that she retired from the role when Pierce Brosnan stepped down as the lead.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Bond co-starred in 2004 with Peter Davison, as a married couple who uproot themselves to a remote island to save their marriage, in the ITV drama-comedy Distant Shores.<ref name="tv"/> In 2007, she played the villain Mrs. Wormwood in the pilot episode of the BBC children's drama series The Sarah Jane Adventures,<ref name="tv"/> a spin-off of Doctor Who. She later came back to play the same character in the two-part finale of the show's second series, Enemy of the Bane.<ref name="tv"/>

Bond guest-starred in three episodes of the murder mystery series Midsomer Murders: Destroying Angel in 2001,<ref name="tv"/> Shot at Dawn in 2008, both starring fellow RSC member John Nettles in the lead role of DCI Tom Barnaby, as well as the first episode in 2011's series 14, Death in the Slow Lane.<ref name="tv"/>

From 2007 to 2014, Bond had a recurring role as Auntie Angela in the BBC's semi-improvised comedy series Outnumbered, alongside Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner and David Ryall.<ref name="tv"/>

From 2010 through 2015, Bond appeared as Lady Rosamund Painswick in the ensemble cast of ITV's drama series Downton Abbey,<ref name="tv"/> written and produced by Julian Fellowes. Each series was shown in the US on PBS's Masterpiece program one year after its broadcast in the UK; according to PBS, Downton Abbey became the most watched drama ever shown on the station, and the most watched series in the history of Masterpiece.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Lady Rosamund is the widowed, wealthy sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. Bond's first appearance was in the last episode of the first series; she appeared in 18 episodes in total.Template:Citation needed

The ITV show Home Fires,<ref name="tv"/> featured Bond as Frances Barden, a woman working to strengthen connections among the women in her small English village by keeping the local Women's Institute operating during the early days of World War II. The show premiered in the UK in 2015 and was cancelled in 2016; fans petitioned ITV to reinstate it, to no avail.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It played in the US on PBS's Masterpiece in 2016 and 2017, where viewers were similarly disappointed to learn of the show's demise. The series creator, Simon Block, has stated he intends to continue the story in written form, as novels.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2020 Bond played Joanne Henderson in Death in Paradise (S9:E5).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In September 2023, Bond starred in the Channel 5 drama series The Inheritance, appearing alongside Rob James-Collier, Jemima Rooper, Gaynor Faye and Adil Ray.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Audiobooks

Bond has narrated a number of audiobooks including Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Joanna Trollope's An Unsuitable Match, Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries' 'Goldeneye. She has most recently released S J Bennett's novel, The Windsor Knot. She received an Earphones Award for Magpie Murders.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Bond lives in St Margarets, London,<ref name= Brocklehurst/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and has been married since 1989 to Alexander Hanson, with whom she has two children.<ref name="genevieveroberts"/><ref name= Brocklehurst/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Northampton in 2014.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1989 Erik the Viking Helga
1995 GoldenEye Miss Moneypenny
1996 Emma Miss Taylor
1997 Breakout Dr. Lisa Temple
Tomorrow Never Dies Miss Moneypenny
1998 What Rats Won't Do Jane
1999 The World Is Not Enough Miss Moneypenny
2001 The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream Hippolyta Voice
2002 Die Another Day Miss Moneypenny
2004 Blinded Dr. Caroline Lamor
Yes Kate
Strings Eike Voice
2007 Clapham Junction Marion Rowan
Consenting Adults Jill Wolfenden
2008 A Bunch of Amateurs Dorothy Nettle
2011 London's Burning Police Superintendent
2017 A Royal WinterTemplate:Broken anchor Beatrice
2018 The Queen and I Queen Elizabeth II
2019 Cold Blood Mrs Kessler
2021 School's Out Forever Georgina Baker
The Kindred Gillian Burrows
2022 The Presence of Love Merryn
Downton Abbey: A New Era Lady Rosamund Painswick
The Stranger in Our Bed Isadora
Hounded Katherine Redwick
2025 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Lady Rosamund Painswick

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1983 Mansfield Park Maria Bertram 5 episodes
1985 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple Julia Simmons Episode: "A Murder is Announced"
Theatre Night Rose Trelawny Episode: "Trelawny of the 'Wells'"
1986 The Understanding Kate TV film
1987 Rumpole of the Bailey Elizabeth "Miz Liz" Probert 4 episodes
1989 The Ginger Tree Mary Mackenzie All 4 episodes
Screen One Sue Episode: "One Way Out"
1990 Agatha Christie's Poirot Stella Robinson Episode: "The Adventure of the Cheap Flat"
1991 The Black Candle Bridget Mordaunt TV film
1992 Inspector Morse Helen Marriat Episode: "Dead on Time"
Thacker Ginny Morgan TV film
1994 Screen Two Sally Episode: "Return to Blood River"
1995 Tears Before Bedtime Sarah Baylis 4 episodes
Ghosts Maddy Episode: "The Chemistry Lesson"
Under the Moon Francesca Jenson TV film
1996 In Suspicious Circumstances Daisy Holt Episode: "The Great Romancer"
1997 Family Money Isabel Episode: #1.1
Mr. White Goes To Westminster Helen Nash MP TV film
The Ruby Ring Mary Spencer TV film
Thief Takers Carol Mason Episode: "Sisters in Arms"
1998–2000 The Bill Mary McMahon 3 episodes
2000 The Bookfair Murders Marsha Hillier TV film
Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show Various 12 episodes
2001 The Hunt Lady Patricia Whitton TV film
NCS: Manhunt DS Maureen Picasso 8 episodes
The Bombmaker Patsy TV film
Kavanagh QC Sarah Swithen Episode: "The End of Law"
Midsomer Murders Suzanna Chambers Episode: "Destroying Angel"
2003 Canterbury Tales Jane Barlow Episode: "The Wife of Bath"
2004 DNA Kate Donovan All episodes
2005 The Murder Room Caroline Dupayne Both 2 episodes
2005–2006 Donovan Kate Donovan 3 episodes
2007 Fanny Hill Mrs Cole 2 episodes
Mobile Rachel West Episode: "The Boss"
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Vivienne Oborne Episode: "Limbo"
2007–2008 The Sarah Jane Adventures Mrs Wormwood 3 episodes
2007–2014 Outnumbered Auntie Angela 10 episodes
2008 Midsomer Murders Arabella Hammond Episode: "Shot at Dawn"
Distant Shores Lisa Shore All 12 episodes
Hotel Babylon Caroline Episode: #3.8
2009 Lark Rise to Candleford Celestia Brice Coulson Episode: #2.8
Agatha Christie's Marple Sylvia Savage Episode: "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?"
Heartbeat Sylvia Swinton Episode: "Deadlier Than the Male"
The Queen Queen Elizabeth II Episode: "Us and Them"
2010 New Tricks Anne Gorton Episode: "Left Field"
2010–2015 Downton Abbey Lady Rosamund Painswick 18 episodes
Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance
by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2011 Midsomer Murders Kate Cameron Episode: "Death in the Slow Lane"
2013 Playhouse Presents Woman Episode: "The Call Out"
2015–2016 Home Fires Frances Barden All 12 episodes
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
2016 Murdoch Mysteries Lady Suzanne Atherly 2 episodes
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage Herself BBC documentary about Judi Dench
2017 Election Spy Diana All 9 episodes
2018 Moving On Sandra Episode: "The Registrar"
2019 Silent Witness DS Hannah Quicke 2 episodes
2020 Death in Paradise Joanne Henderson Episode: "Switcharoo"
2022 Red Riding Hood: After Ever After Red Riding Hood Television film<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023 Dreamland Orla 2 episodes
The Inheritance Susan All 4 episodes
2024–2025 The Marlow Murder Club Judith Potts Lead role<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Narrator

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Royal Stories Narrator 10 episodes
2019 Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie Narrator
2021 Secrets of the Royal Palaces Narrator TV series<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023 The Inheritance 4 episodes; Channel 5 drama series
2024 Malta: The Jewel of the Med Narrator TV series

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2021 Evil Genius 2: World Domination Emma A playable character<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Stage

Awards and nominations

Television

Year Award Category Work Result
2017 Screen Actors Guild Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Downton Abbey Template:Nom

Theatre

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Year Award Category Work Result
1995 Laurence Olivier Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Best Actress in a Supporting Role Le Cid Template:Nom
1999 Tony Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Amy's View Template:Nom
Outer Critics Circle Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Template:Nom
2007 Laurence Olivier Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Best Performance in a Supporting Role Donkey's Years Template:Nom
2015 Laurence Olivier Award<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Template:Nom

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