Bond girl cast in "Tomorrow Never Dies". A few years after playing a Bond girl, she became one of the most highly paid actresses on television, starring in "Desperate Housewives". Jane Seymour was an unknown when she was cast in "Live and Let Die" (the opening credits read "Introducing Jane Seymour"), later won an Emmy Award for playing Maria Callas in a TV movie and then became a household name playing the title role in her TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". Kim Basinger had perhaps the most successful post-Bond career. After her break-out role in "Never Say Never Again", Basinger went
Lois Chiles appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile" as the murder victim Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, and in 1979, she appeared in what is perhaps her most famous role, that of NASA astronaut, scientist and Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in "Moonraker". It was Moore´s fourth performance as Bond, the final 1970's Bond film and the third (and final) Bond film which Lewis Gilbert directed, as he had previously directed "You Only Live Twice" (1967, Sean Connery) and "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977, Roger Moore). Chiles had initially been approached to