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Caroline Munro was born on 16 January 1950, Windsor, Berkshire, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Catholic Convent School, and later attended Brighton Art School.
At age sixteen she recorded a single, "Tar & Cement" for EMI. Musicians on that record included Ginger Baker of "Cream," Steve Howe of "Yes" and Eric Clapton.
By chance her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British newspaper, The Evening News, and won. This led to many modelling jobs, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at the age of 17.
She moved to London to pursue top modelling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and TV ads while there. This led to bit parts in films such as "Casino Royale" (1967) and "Where's Jack?" (1969).
One of her many photo ads got her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark's daughter in the comedy/western "A Talent for Loving" (1969).
1969 proved to be a good year for Caroline, because it was then that she began a lucrative 10 year relationship with Lamb's Navy Rum. Caroline's image was plastered all over the country, and this would eventually lead to her next big break.
1971 saw Caroline appear alongside legendary actor Vincent Price. In American International Pictures 1971 film, "The Abominable Dr. Phibes", Caroline plays the deceased Mrs. Victoria Regina Phibes. "The most challenging scenes involved lying in the coffin with Vincent," she reveals. "You see, I’m allergic to feathers and I was attired in this beautiful negligee — but it was covered with feathers! It took a great deal of willpower not to sneeze or sniffle. On occasion, I would simply have to sneeze and this would result in having to do another take." She would reprise the role in the sequel, "Dr. Phibes Rises Again".
Hammer Films CEO Sir James Carreras spotted Caroline on a Lamb’s Navy Rum poster/billboard. He asked his right hand man, James Liggett, to find and screen test her. Caroline was immediately signed to a one-year contract. Her first film for Hammer proved to be something of a turning point in her career. It was during the making of "Dracula AD 1972" that she decided from this film onward she was a full-fledged actress. Up until then she was always considered a model who did some acting on the side.
Caroline completed her contract for Hammer with "Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter". Directed by Brian Clemens, Caroline plays the barefoot gypsy girl Carla. In Paramount Pictures DVD commentary, Clemens explains that he envisioned the role as a fiery, Raquel Welch type, red-head. Hammer pushed for Munro, and the script was adapted accordingly.
Caroline has the distinction of being the only actor ever signed to a long-term contract by Hammer Films. She would later turn down the lead female roles in Hammer's "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde", "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell", and the unmade "Vampirella" because they required nudity.
Brian Clemens would later be responsible for bringing Caroline one of her most memorable roles, Margiana in 1974's "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad": "I got the part - I had been signed by Hammer for one year for a contract out of which I did two films, one being Dracula AD 1972 and the second one being Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, which kind of would come full circle to Sinbad. It was written and directed by Brian Clemens who wrote the screenplay for The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, so I was lucky enough to be chosen for Captain Kronos and they were searching for somebody to do Sinbad and they wanted a big name, somebody American or well known, but Brian said no. He kept lobbying Charles Schneer [producer] and Ray Harryhausen - saying 'I think you should come and look at the rushes and see what you think because I think she's right.' So they said no, no but eventually Brian persuaded them to do that and they saw the rushes and that was how I got the part. So it was lovely, like work out of work. I was very lucky to have done that."
Other appearances during this time included "I Don't Want to Be Born" (1975) with Joan Collins, and 1976's "At the Earth's Core" with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure.
In 1977, she turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in "Superman: The Movie" in favour of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me". In one of the franchise's most memorable car chase sequences, she seductively winks at Bond while trying to gun him down from her helicopter. In her role as Naomi, she holds the distinction of being the first woman ever killed by James Bond. Cubby Broccoli urged Caroline to make her way to America in search of more lucrative offers. She declined preferring to stay close to her family.
Caroline's career continued to thrive well in the 1980s, appearing in many British and European productions, most notably "Starcrash" with David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer and Marjoe Gortner. Her first film shot on American soil was the William Lustig production, "Maniac". This was soon followed by the low-budget shocker, "The Last Horror Film", in which Caroline was reunited with her Maniac co-star Joe Spinell. "Slaughter High" (1986), Paul Naschy's "Howl of the Devil" (1987), and Jess Franco's "Faceless" (1988), followed in rapid succession. She reteamed with Starcrash director, Luigi Cozzi, for 1989's "Il Gatto Nero". This would be Caroline's last major film appearance.
Caroline turned down an offer to do a Playboy Magazine nude spread. In fact, she refused to do any nude work at all and rejected such movie offers as The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) and Force 10 from Navarone (1978) that asked for it.
Towards the late 1980s Caroline was also a hostess on the Yorkshire Television game shows "3-2-1" and she did a Noxzema Shaving Cream commercial on American TV and was also TV's Turkish Delight girl.
She also appeared in two music videos, "Goody Two Shoes" with Adam Ant, where she played a reporter, and "If You Really Want To" with Meatloaf. She also recorded a single with Gary Numan in 1985 entitled "Pump Me Up".
By the 1990s Caroline had decided to focus more on her family, daughters, Georgina and Iona, and husband George. Her sole film roles were confined to cameos as herself in 1993's "Night Owl", as Mrs. Pignon in "To Die For", and playing the counsellor in director and friend Jeffrey Arsenault's "Domestic Strangers" (1996). Other work included a guest-starring spot in a 1992 episode of "Tropical Heat", interviews for Ted Newsom's "100 Years of Horror" documentaries and the Hammer Films tribute: "Flesh and Blood - The Hammer Heritage of Horror".
Things started hotting up again when she set up her fan club and started touching base with her loyal fans. She also teamed up with musician Gary Wilson and – as Wilson Munro – recorded a CD with three musical duets.
Caroline Munro is currently one of the most sought after Hammer Glamour girls and is regularly jetting from one convention to the other both in the UK and the US as well as occasionally in some other countries. Her latest appearances can be checked on her official web site.
She also recently filmed two cameos again, for "Flesh for the Beast" (2003) and "The Absence of Light" (2004). Her most public appearance – and in actual fact one of her best roles ever! - was for a Doctor Who Audio CD called Omega.
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