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
Grahame Bond working for the ABC's religious affairs department—he commissioned Bond and Weir to make a one-hour special, "Man on a Green Bike", which was Bond's first TV appearance. In 1970 Bond wrote and performed in another successful comedy revue, "Hamlet On Ice". In 1971 Peter Weir wrote and directed his first short feature film, a surreal black comedy called "Homesdale", with an ensemble cast that included rising actress Kate Fitzpatrick. In the film Bond played Mister Kevin, the first incarnation of the popular Aunty Jack Show character Kev Kavanagh. Soon after "Homedsale" Bond and Weir were asked to create a children's