Honor Blackman, the actress best-known for playing Bond girl
Pussy Galore, has died aged 94. She became a household name in the 1960s as
Cathy Gale in The Avengers and enjoyed a career spanning eight decades, died of
natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex,
England
on April 6, 2020. Among Blackman’s better known roles were the vengeful
goddess Hera in “Jason and the Argonauts” and as Laura West in the 1990s sitcom
“The Upper Hand”. She appeared in theatrical productions including “The Sound
of Music”, “My Fair Lady” and “Cabaret”. Blackman was married and divorced
twice, to Bill Sankey and Maurice Kaufmann. She adopted two children with
Kaufmann, Lottie and Barnaby. She turned down a CBE in 2002 while ,ore
recently, she joined a campaign to demand compensation payments for pensioners
who lost savings in the Equitable Life scandal.
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