LATE BLOOMER

In the 1973 Bond movie Live and Let Die, Jane Seymour’s clairvoyant character Solitaire lost her virginity to 007 and with it her ability to tell the future. She was later rescued from a voodoo sacrifice and a shark tank and rode off into the sunset with Roger Moore.

Those, indeed, were the days. But Seymour is possibly the only Bond girl of that era who went on to greater things. She’s certainly the only one who became a household name and is still churning out television shows and films today. And, of course, she’s just as famous for her media-best-owed honorary