Biography
Samantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, perhaps best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the series' Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on Downton Abbey as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also well-known for originating the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Description above from the Wikipedia art...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The King’s High Street: Inside St James’
2023
as Narrator (voice)
St James's in London is renowned for being Britain's poshest high street. We meet the characters who run the stores, and the customers who buy their p...
Red Riding Hood: After Ever After
2022
as Red Riding Hood
Fifty years after her legendary brush with the wolf, an adult Red Riding Hood and her granddaughter face a new lupine problem.
Hounded
2022
as Katherine Redwick
A stately home robbery takes an evil turn one night when a gang of young thieves are caught by the owners of the house and then hunted across the esta...
The Stranger in Our Bed
2022
as Isadora
A newly married woman leaves her wealthy husband for a lover who mysteriously disappears. Things start to unravel and become life-threatening on a tri...
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
as Self
A look at Dame Maggie Smith's life from a two-up two-down in Essex to Broadway and Hollywood. Starring in more than 60 films and 70 plays across her 7...
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
as Self
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look...
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
as Lady Rosamund Painswick
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...
The Presence of Love
2022
as Merryn
The film follows adjunct professor Joss, who travels to England to visit the farm where her late mother grew up and bonds with single father Daniel, w...
The Kindred
2021
as Gillian Burrows
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery fro...
School's Out Forever
2021
as Georgina
No sooner has 15-year-old Lee Keegan been expelled from his private school than an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world's population. With hi...
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
2020
as Self - Narrator
Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all time. We all know her characters and incredible plot...
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
2020
as Self - Actor
British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his de...
Cold Blood
2019
as The Lady
A legendary but retired hit man lives in peace and isolation in the barren North American wilderness. When he rescues a woman from a snowmobiling acci...
Secrets of the Royal Servants
2019
as Narrator (voice)
In this documentary, former staff of members of the British Royal Family reveal the routines and duties that take place out of the public eye. Also, h...
The Queen and I
2018
as Queen Elizabeth II
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council esta...
Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Founding of The Premier Grand Lodge
2017
THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND CELEBRATED ITS EPIC TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN 2017. Over 4,000 Freemasons from Provinces...
Lady M
2017
as Margot
The actress, Margot Collins, played Lady Macbeth to great acclaim in her youth. Now in her fifties, she is largely forgotten, struggling for auditions...
Canned
2017
as Mum
A dark comedy. Three school friends each suffering from a 'quarter-life-crisis' are thrown back together again following a tragedy. Can their friendsh...
A Royal Winter
2017
as Queen Beatrice of Calpurnia
While on a last-minute European holiday, a young woman finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome loc...
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016
as Self
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
London's Burning
2011
as Senior Police Officer
Dramatisation of the 2011 London riots, focusing pre-dominantly on events that occured in and around Clapham and incorporating actual footage from CCT...
Operation Crossbow
2011
as Narrator (voice)
The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies ...
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008
as Dorothy Nettle
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believe...
Fanny Hill
2007
as Mrs. Cole
Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls' ...
Consenting Adults
2007
as Jill Wolfenden
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homose...
Clapham Junction
2007
as Marion Rowan
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty...
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Invasion of the Bane
2007
as Mrs Wormwood
There's a new drink taking the world by storm - Bubbleshock! Everyone's drinking it. When Maria's dragged along to the factory tour by her new friend,...
The Exotic Locations of 'The Living Daylights'
2006
A review of the Exotic Locations of 'The Living Daylights'.
The Exotic Locations of 'Licence to Kill'
2006
A tour of the Exotic Locations of 'Licence to Kill'.
The Exotic Locations of 'GoldenEye'
2006
A tour of the exotic locations of GoldenEye.
The Exotic Locations of 'Tomorrow Never Dies'
2006
A tour of the the Exotic Locations of 'Tomorrow Never Dies'.
The Exotic Locations of 'The World Is Not Enough'
2006
An exploration of the exotic locations of 'The World Is Not Enough'
The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event
2006
A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.
The Murder Room
2004
as Caroline Dupayne
London's Dupayne Museum is in danger of closing since one of the trustees feels that the money expended on preserving the past could be better spent a...
Strings
2004
as Eike (voice)
Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he dis...
Blinded
2004
as Caroline Lamar
While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike...
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Self / Miss Monneypenny
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Die Another Day
2002
as Moneypenny
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an internatio...
Bond Girls Are Forever
2002
as Miss Moneypenny (archive footage)
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
2002
as Narrator (voice)
A documentary about Die Another Day.
The Bombmaker
2001
as Patsy
Expert IRA bomb-maker turned police informant Andrea Hayes retires and starts a new life after four school-children are killed by one of her bombs. Te...
The Bookfair Murders
2000
as Marsha Hillier
Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade
The World Is Not Enough
1999
as Miss Moneypenny
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress fro...
What Rats Won't Do
1998
as Jane
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has...
Highly Classified: The World of 007
1998
His world is full of glamour, mystery and intrigue and now you get to be a part of it! Let gadget wizard Q (Desmond Llewelyn) be your guide to the ubi...
Mr White Goes To Westminster
1997
A journalist becomes an independent MP. Loosely based on the election of Martin Bell to the constituency of Tatton between 1997 and 2001.
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
as Moneypenny
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mas...
The Ruby Ring
1997
as Mary Spencer
A magic ruby ring transports fifteen-year-old Lucy (Emily Hamilton) one hundred years back in time to a castle, where she's a servant girl. Christian ...
Breakout
1997
as Dr. Lisa Temple
A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death.
Emma
1996
as Mrs. Weston
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend,...
GoldenEye
1995
as Moneypenny
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world...
Return to Blood River
1994
as Sally
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 ho...
Thacker
1992
as Ginny Morgan
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has h...
The Black Candle
1991
as Bridget Mordaunt
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her atten...
One Way Out
1989
as Sue
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable ...
Erik the Viking
1989
as Helga
Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allo...