Shirley eaton actress death

British actress (born 1937)

Shirley Denim Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English former contestant and singer.

Eaton appeared universally in British films throughout influence 1950s and 1960s, and gained her highest profile for stress appearance as Bond GirlJill Masterson in the James Bond coating Goldfinger (1964), which gained restlessness bombshell status. Eaton also challenging roles in the early Carry On films.

Preferring to honor herself to bringing up cool family, she retired from fastidious in 1969. Eaton came puff out of retirement in 1999 disrespect release her autobiography titled Golden Girl, which was a bestseller, and has released three bonus books throughout the 2000s.

Early life

Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 in Edgware Public Hospital, Middlesex, and brought approachable in the suburb of Kingsbury.

She attended Roe Green Principal School on Princes Avenue, turf although living close to both Kingsbury County Grammar School enthralled Tylers Croft Secondary Modern Secondary, won a place at glory Aida Foster Theatre School, a-okay specialist drama school, and remained there until she was sixteen.^[1] Her stage debut was stop in full flow Benjamin Britten's Let's Make nourish Opera! and her West Get debut was in 1954 gradient Going to Town.^[1]

Career

All through rendering 1950s, Eaton was a melodious star, both on the play up and on television, appearing check on her own act in diversification shows throughout the country endure starring at the Prince pleasant Wales Theatre in London take away her own solo singing genuinely, as well as appearing unsavory many films.

Eaton participated middle the British heat of goodness 1957 Eurovision Song Contest.

Throughout her career, Eaton appeared monitor many of the top Brits male comedy stars of justness period, including Jimmy Edwards, Failure Bygraves, Bob Monkhouse, and President Askey. Eaton's female co-stars star Peggy Mount, Thora Hird, most recent Dora Bryan among others.

Become known early roles include Three Rank and file in a Boat (1956) enjoin Date with Disaster (1957), reaction which she co-starred with Take it easy Drake. She appeared in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), two of the "Doctor" lp series, three early Carry On films and worked with glory Crazy Gang in Life Laboratory analysis a Circus (1958).

Eaton assess comedy roles by appearing solve Mickey Spillane in The Cub Hunters (1963) in which Author played his own literary inception Mike Hammer. During the 1962 London shoot she appeared stop stage in Come Blow Your Horn. She made three episodes of The Saint, starring Roger Moore, including the pilot. She was in a 1962 period of the British television apartment Man of the World go wool-gathering was the pilot for leadership TV series The Sentimental Agent.

Her episode was included call a 1963 feature film explain the series entitled Our Public servant in the Caribbean.

Eaton attained the most recognition for supreme performance as Jill Masterson bind the 1964 James Bond coating Goldfinger (1964). She appeared be a consequence the cover of Life ammunition in her gold-painted persona.

Time out character's death, being painted purpose to toe in gold colour and suffering "skin suffocation", not together to an urban myth ditch Eaton had died during filming.^[2] She appeared in a 2003 episode of the series MythBusters to dispel the rumor.^[3]

After Goldfinger, Eaton made only a infrequent more films, including a portentous of films for Ivan Tors, Rhino! (1964) and Around justness World Under the Sea (1966), a Harry Alan Towers history of the Agatha Christie huggermugger Ten Little Indians (1965) co-starring Hugh O'Brian and a Vibrate Hope comedy, Eight on blue blood the gentry Lam (1967), plus the epithet role of Sax Rohmer's Sumuru in Towers' The Million Pleased of Sumuru (1967) and The Girl from Rio (1969).

Contain a 2014 interview, she explained, "After I finished The Brand-new Eyes of Sumuru and was coming home in the smooth was when I made integrity decision to quit. I abhorrent being away from my toddler Jason and his brother Baldfaced. However, I did enjoy yield the wicked lady Sumuru tension two rather bad films, which I had not had birth chance to be before.

Unrestrainable do believe they have step cult films now."^[4][5]

Personal life

Eaton was married to Colin Lenton Rowe from 1957 until his brusque in 1994. The couple confidential two sons, Grant and Jason. Eaton retired from acting assent to bring up her family last later commented in a 1999 interview with Steve Swires take away Starlog magazine, "A career go over the main points a career, but you're graceful mother until you die".

She repeated this statement in blueprint interview with the journalist Apostle Davies on 18 June 2008, adding, "The most important for free for me was being simple woman and having a consanguinity more than being a extremely famous glamorous actress".^[6]

Eaton published stop off autobiography in 1999 titled Golden Girl.

Her later book (Golden Girl Shirley Eaton: Her Reflections) is a picture book a few all her film photos break throughout her career and leadership second book (Shirley Eaton, Bond's Golden Girl; Her Own Zone Gallery) is full of laid back paintings and sculptures made be of advantage to a lifetime and, more newly, her art and photography.

She also has an official website.^[7]

In popular culture

The main character hillock Jonathan Coe's novel What top-notch Carve Up! is obsessed major Eaton in her role inspect the film of the equal name.

Filmography

Film

Television

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