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Actress Lois Maxwell, famous for her role as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films including The Spy Who Loved Me, View to a Kill and Dr. No died today. She was 80 years old. The Canadian born actress left home at 15 to join up and was touring Europe in a song and dance troup as a member of the Army Entertainment Corps when they figured out she was a minor. She was so good no one wanted her to be sent back so she enrolled in Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. It turned out to be a good career move.

After the war she went to Hollywood and worked with Shirley Temple and Ronald Reagan in That hagen Girl, earning her a Golden Globe. Then she appeared in a Life Magazine spread featuring up and comers of the day with another aspiring actress - Marilyn Monroe.

Rome called and she lived there in the 50's where she worked in film and met her husband, Peter Marriot. Next its a move to London and a family was started. It was during this time that she was appraoched about what was to be her iconic role, the flirtatious secretary to M. She lasted through 2 Bonds, Sean Connery (argueably the best) and Roger Moore (most prolific).

Canadian born, she returned to Canada after her husband died in 1973 and worked in film and television, wrote a newspaper column and just hung out and chilled.

She moved back to England and thence to Fremantle Australia, where she died. Roger Moore said at one time "I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been a wonderful M."