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Blackman left the series after its third season to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger. Gale was unlike any female character seen before on British TV. In The Avengers from 1962-1964, she played Dr Cathy Gale, a self-assured, quick-witted anthropologist who was skilled in judo and had a passion for leather clothes. In an episode of The Saint titled 'The Arrow of God' (1962), Blackman played an adulterous personal secretary named Pauline Stone, who became one of several suspects in the murder of a despised gossip columnist. Television Д«lackman and Maurice Evans on The Name of the Game (1975)Д«lackman started acting on television in the recurring role of Nicole, secretary/assistant to Dan Dailey's character of Tim Collier in the television series The Four Just Men (1959). From April to September 2007, Blackman took over the role of Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.

She developed a one-woman show, Word of Honor, which premiered in October 2006. Д«lackman returned to the theatre in 2005, touring through 2006 with a production of My Fair Lady, in which she played Mrs. She spent most of 1987 at the Fortune Theatre starring as the Mother Superior in the West End production of Nunsense. The production opened to rave reviews and the largest advance sale in British theatre history to that time. In 1981, she appeared in a London revival of The Sound of Music opposite Petula Clark. In February 1979, she starred in Stephen Barry's production of Tom Stoppard's Night and Day at the Perth Playhouse, coinciding with Stoppard's presence as a participant in the Festival of Perth. In the late 1970s, she toured Australia and New Zealand with Michael Craig and Colleen Clifford in the comedy play Move Over, Mrs Markham. In 1968, Blackman appeared opposite John Neville and Hylda Baker in the musical play Mr & Mrs, based on the plays of NoГ«l Coward. Gale, the Yanks would like her because she was so good, it was a perfect combination.' Theatre Broccoli said, 'The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs. He knew that most American audiences would not have seen the programme. Broccoli said Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in the Bond film on the basis of her success in the British television series The Avengers. This helped her prepare for her roles as Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964). James Bond Дuring the 1960s, Blackman practised judo at the Budokwai dojo. She had roles in the films Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) and Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown (also 2001). She played Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), which featured stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. Д«lackman in the role of the goddess Hera in Jason and the Argonauts Somerset Maugham, starring Dirk Bogarde Diamond City (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), in which she again appeared with Dirk Bogarde Green Grow the Rushes (1951), alongside Roger Livesey and Richard Burton A Night to Remember (1958), an account of the Titanic disaster the comedy The Square Peg (1958) Life at the Top (1965) with Laurence Harvey The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), and the Western films Shalako (1968) with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, and Something Big (1971) with Dean Martin. Her other films include Quartet (1948), based on short stories by W. Career Films Д«lackman's film debut was a nonspeaking part in Fame Is the Spur (1947). In 1947 she appeared in the Patrick Hastings play The Blind Goddess at the Apollo Theatre. Following graduation, she was an understudy in the West End play The Guinea Pig. While attending the Guildhall School, Blackman worked as a clerical assistant for the Home Office. For her 15th birthday, her parents gave her acting lessons and began her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing County Grammar School for Girls. Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 in Plaistow, the daughter of Edith Eliza (Stokes) and Frederick Blackman, a civil service statistician.