--- name: "Maud Adams" canonical: "https://film.one/person/maud-adams" roles: ["Actor"] born: "12 February 1945" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 60 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-18T11:29:11.654008+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Maud Adams Actor. Born 12 February 1945 in Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 12 February 1945, Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden - **Active:** 1974–1983 - **Also known as:** Maud Solveig Christina Wikström - **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other - **Frequently works with:** [Albert R. Broccoli](https://film.one/person/albert-r-broccoli.md), [Richard Maibaum](https://film.one/person/richard-maibaum.md), [Roger Moore](https://film.one/person/roger-moore.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 56 (1), 1980s 55 (2) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Adams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232429, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000726/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10342 ## Fi1m on Maud Adams > Maud Adams is the Bond woman who behaves like an adult. Twice, opposite Roger Moore, she played someone who had already weighed the man she was standing next to and decided to stay anyway, and both films are better for having her in them. In a Hong Kong hotel room in *The Man with the Golden Gun* (1974), Roger Moore's Bond twists Andrea Anders's arm and threatens to break it. Moore plays the scene as if someone off camera had told him to. Maud Adams plays it as if she has been threatened before, by better men than this one, and is deciding how much to give him. She is the only person in the film who seems to have thought about what living with Christopher Lee's Scaramanga would cost, and the film, which has a sheriff on holiday to attend to, does not give her nearly enough time to tell us. That was her breakthrough, and it set the pattern. She had come to acting from modelling, discovered in a shop in Sweden in the early 1960s and put to work in Paris and New York, and her first parts leaned on how she looked. Producers kept casting her for glamour and asking little else of her, and for a stretch that was the whole of her reputation. *Rollerball* (1975), for Norman Jewison, gave her a proper supporting role; *Playing for Time* (1980) and *Tattoo* (1981) got her noticed as an actress rather than a face. We have not reviewed those and will not judge them here. Then Albert R. Broccoli asked her back, and she became the only actress to play a Bond woman in two different films. *Octopussy* (1983) makes her the title character, a businesswoman who has made her peace with smuggling and lives in a palace on a lake that Peter Lamont fills with brass and silk. She and Moore are easy together, two adults with a history they are too polite to raise, and there is not much of that in Bond films. We found ourselves, somewhere in the second hour of chases and jokes, wishing the film would go back to the palace and let the two of them talk. It never quite does. Neither she nor Kristina Wayborn is given much to want beyond Bond, and the octopus cult is decoration. The criticism that follows her is fair as far as it goes: the roles emphasised beauty over depth, and she never became a leading star in Hollywood once the Bond association had done its work. She said herself, of the move from modelling, "I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it." What the criticism misses is what she did with the parts she was given. In two films built to make women decorative, she found a way to be the one person on screen who had considered the consequences. Watch *The Man with the Golden Gun* for Lee and notice who else walks out of it intact. Watch *Octopussy* for India and for her. The rest of the career went to television and to a Swedish series she directed in 1994, and it is Bond that people remember. She seems, on the record, to have made her peace with that too. ## Biography Maud Adams is a Swedish actress and model. Born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström on 12 February 1945 in Luleå, she began her career as a model after being discovered in 1963. She moved to Paris and then New York, where she studied acting, before making her film debut in an uncredited role in *The Boys in the Band* (1970). Adams gained international recognition for her roles in two James Bond films: as Andrea Anders in *The Man with the Golden Gun* (1974) and as the title character in *Octopussy* (1983). She also appeared uncredited in *A View to a Kill* (1985). Other notable film roles include *Rollerball* (1975) and *Tattoo* (1981). She has appeared in various television series and hosted a Swedish talk show. She was married to photographer Roy Adams from 1966 to 1975 and to Charles Rubin since 1999. Adams has served as president of the cosmetics company Scandinavian Biocosmetics. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) ### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these - *Octopussy* (1983), Fi1m 64, as Octopussy — [page](https://film.one/film/octopussy.md) - *The Man with the Golden Gun* (1974), Fi1m 56, as Andrea Anders — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-with-the-golden-gun.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *A View to a Kill* (1985), Fi1m 46, as Woman in Fisherman's Wharf Crowd (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/a-view-to-a-kill.md) ## Complete filmography (45) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Blood Legacy* (2024), series, as Msizi - *The Seekers* (2008), as Ella Swanson - *Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'* (2000), Acting - *The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond* (2000), Acting - *That '70s Show* (1998), series, as Holly - *White Lies* (1997), series, Acting - *Ringer* (1996), as Leslie Polokoff - *Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives* (1993), as Shelly Talbot Morrison - *Walker, Texas Ranger* (1993), series, as Simone Deschamps - *Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4* (1990), as Fima - *The Favorite* (1989), as Sineperver - *Soda Cracker* (1989), as Crystal Tarver - *A Man of Passion* (1989), as Susana - *Angel III: The Final Chapter* (1988), as Nadine - *The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau* (1988), as Ariel Dubois - *Deadly Intent* (1988), as Elise Marlowe - *Hell Hunters* (1988), as Amanda - *Jane and the Lost City* (1987), as Lola Pagola - *The Women's Club* (1987), as Angie - *Blacke's Magic* (1986), series, as Andrea Starr - *A View to a Kill* (1985), as Woman in Fisherman's Wharf Crowd (uncredited) — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/a-view-to-a-kill.md) - *Nairobi Affair* (1984), as Anne Malone - *Emerald Point N.A.S.* (1983), series, as Maggie Farrell - *Octopussy* (1983), as Octopussy — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/octopussy.md) - *James Bond in India* (1983), Acting - *Target Eagle* (1982), as Carmen - *Hotel* (1982), series, Acting - *Chicago Story* (1982), series, as Dr. Judith Bergstrom - *Tattoo* (1981), as Maddy - *Playing for Time* (1980), as Mala - *The Hostage Tower* (1980), as Sabrina Carver - *Laura* (1979), as Sarah - *Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus* (1978), as Vikki Lee Sanchez - *Merciless Man* (1976), as Marta Mayer - *Killer Force* (1976), as Clare - *Starsky & Hutch* (1975), series, Acting - *Rollerball* (1975), as Ella - *The Man with the Golden Gun* (1974), as Andrea Anders — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-with-the-golden-gun.md) - *Kojak* (1973), series, as Elenor Martinson — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md) - *U-Turn* (1973), as Paula / Tracy - *Mahoney's Last Stand* (1972), as Miriam - *The Christian Licorice Store* (1971), as Cynthia - *The Boys in the Band* (1970), as Photo Model (uncredited) - *Love, American Style* (1969), series, as Melba Wilde - *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), series, as Maria Noble ## Gallery - ![Maud Adams](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-74771b26dbc6.jpg) Maud Adams — lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Maud_Adams.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![February 21, 2008: First Annual L.A. Press Club National Entertainment Awards LA Weekly Editor Laurie Ochoa, Chris Woodyard, Maud Adams](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-769e39b658cc.jpg) February 21, 2008: First Annual L.A. Press Club National Entertainment Awards LA Weekly Editor Laurie Ochoa, Chris Woodyard, Maud Adams — Photo from www.lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Laurie_Ochoa%2C_Chris_Woodyard%2C_Maud_Adams_at_L.A._Press_Club_National_Entertainment_Awards_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![February 21, 2008: First Annual L.A. Press Club National Entertainment Awards](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-581c256c49e2.jpg) February 21, 2008: First Annual L.A. Press Club National Entertainment Awards — Photo from www.lukeford.net, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Matthew_Garrahan%2C_Maud_Adams_at_L.A._Press_Club_National_Entertainment_Awards_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Mid Atlantic Nostalgia conv Hunt Valley M.D. Sept 2019](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-f02a55b76ed4.jpg) Mid Atlantic Nostalgia conv Hunt Valley M.D. Sept 2019 — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Maud_Adams_2019.jpg/1280px-Maud_Adams_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Maud Adams](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-72d09c8cadd7.jpg) Maud Adams — Image via TMDB - ![Maud Adams](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-ea3e65ed9baa.jpg) Maud Adams — Image via TMDB - ![Mid Atlantic Nostalgia conv Hunt Valley M.D. Sept 2019](https://film.one/media/person/1027369/gallery-763c326ad56f.jpg) Mid Atlantic Nostalgia conv Hunt Valley M.D. Sept 2019 — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Maud_Adams_in_2019.jpg/1280px-Maud_Adams_in_2019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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