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Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947)[1] is an American actress and former fashion model known for her role as Holly Goodhead in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), and as a hit-and-run driver in 1987's Creepshow 2, as well as parts in The Great Gatsby, The Way We Were, Death on the Nile, Broadcast News, and as Holly Harwood in the television series Dallas.

Lois Chiles
Born	Lois Cleveland Chiles (1947-04-15) April 15, 1947 (age 75) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1972–2006
Spouse	Richard Gilder ​ ​ (m. 2005; died 2020)​
Relatives	Eddie Chiles (uncle)

Early life

Chiles was born in Houston, the daughter of Marion Clay Chiles and Barbara Wayne Kirkland Chiles. Her paternal uncle was oil tycoon and Texas Rangers owner Eddie Chiles.[2][3][4] She had two brothers: Clay Kirkland Chiles (died 1979),^{[citation needed]} and William Edmonds Chiles, president and CEO of Bristow Group, Inc. She was raised in Alice, Texas.

Chiles studied at the University of Texas at Austin and the former Finch College in New York City, where she was discovered by a Glamour editor looking for a young woman to feature on the cover of the magazine's annual college issue.[1] She landed the job and soon had contracts with Wilhelmina Models in New York and Elite Models in Paris. Later, she studied acting under Roy London.[5] She dated Don Henley but the relationship ended, and in 2005, she married money manager Richard Gilder.[6] They are both honorary co-chairs of Northfield Mount Hermon, a school in Massachusetts. Gilder donated money to the school and they named the Chiles Theater after her.[7] Gilder died in 2020.[8]

Career

In the early 1970s, Chiles enjoyed a successful modeling career. She made her big-screen debut in the 1972 blaxploitation film Together for Days, followed by 1973's The Way We Were, in which she played opposite Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, as Carol Ann, the college sweetheart of Redford's character. She was then cast as Jordan Baker in 1974's The Great Gatsby, alongside Mia Farrow and, again, Robert Redford.^{[citation needed]}

In 1978, she appeared, again with Farrow, in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile as Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, and in 1979, she appeared as NASA astronaut, scientist and Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in Moonraker. Chiles had initially been approached to star in the previous Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, but she declined the role as she was taking a break from acting at the time.[1] She also appeared in a small role in the thriller Coma (1978), one of the many films in which she played a murder victim.[9]^{[unreliable source?]}

Chiles lost her youngest brother to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1979, which contributed to her decision to take a three-year hiatus from acting just as her career seemed to be blossoming. Her film career never fully recovered, and she struggled to find roles of the caliber she had previously enjoyed, although film critic Pauline Kael gave her good notices for her performances in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty (1986).^{[citation needed]} Her portrayal of reporter Jennifer Mack in James L. Brooks' Broadcast News (1987) was also well received, as was her turn in George A. Romero's horror flick Creepshow 2 in 1987, as a hit-and-run driver.[10]^{[unreliable source?]} In 1989, she appeared uncredited in a short but effective cameo as the estranged mother of Ione Skye's character in Say Anything... (1989).^{[citation needed]}

She has since appeared as a stuffy high-school principal in the 1996 Disney film Wish Upon a Star, and as a frightened cruise passenger in the critically panned Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1997. She made a cameo appearance in the international release of the 1997 Bond spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, though her scene was cut from the United States release.^{[citation needed]}

She has worked in television, playing J.R. Ewing's love interest Holly Harwood in the 1982–1983 season of Dallas and guest appearances in series such as Hart to Hart (as a psychotic split-personality model), In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, and The Nanny (with another Bond girl, Ivana Miličević). Later career high points included the indie films Diary of a Hitman (1991) and Curdled (1996).[1] In 2005, friend Quentin Tarantino, with whom she had previously worked on the set of Curdled, recruited her to appear in the two-episode finale of season five of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which he wrote and directed.^{[citation needed]}

In the spring of 2002, she taught a course in film acting at the University of Houston.[5] Unlike some "Bond girls", Chiles has said that "being a Bond girl is a fun way to be remembered", although she jokes that being asked to sigh "Oh, James" is as annoying as "you can't live up to people's fantasies".[11]^{[unreliable source?]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	Together for Days	Shelley
1973	The Way We Were	Carol Ann
1974	The Great Gatsby	Jordan Baker
1978	Coma	Nancy Greenly
1978	Death on the Nile	Linnet Ridgeway
1979	Moonraker	Dr. Holly Goodhead
1981	Hart to Hart	Mary Scott / Scottie	TV series，Season 2（1 episode）
1982–1983	Dallas	Holly Harwood	TV series，Season 6（22 episodes) and Season 7（2 episodes）
1984	Courage	Ruth
1986	Sweet Liberty	Leslie
1986	Dark Mansions	Jessica Drake	TV movie
1987	Creepshow 2	Annie Lansing (segment "The Hitchhiker")
1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's	Lita Nathan	TV movie
1987	Broadcast News	Jennifer Mack
1989	Say Anything...	Diane's Mother (uncredited)
1989	Twister	Virginia
1990	Burning Bridges	Claire Morgan	TV movie
1990	In the Eye of the Snake	Claire Anzer—Marc's Mother
1990	Murder, She Wrote	Millie Bingham Stafford	TV series，Season 7（1 episode）
1991	Veronica Clare		TV series，Season 1（1 episode）and Season 2（1 episode）
1991	Bis ans Ende der Welt	Elsa Farber
1991	Diary of a Hitman	Sheila
1992	Obsessed	Louise	TV movie
1993	In the Heat of the Night	Muriel Gray	TV series，Season 6（1 episode）
1993	Civil Wars	Alexandra Phelps	TV series，Season 2（1 episode）
1993	Crossroads	Renee	TV series，Season 1（1episode）
1993	Lush Life	Lucy	TV movie
1994	L.A. Law	Camilla Greer	TV series，Season 8（1 episode）
1995	The Babysitter	Bernice Holsten
1995	Flipper	Allison Van Rijn	TV series，Season 1（1 episode）
1996	Curdled	Katrina Brandt
1996	Wish Upon a Star	Principal Mary Mittermiller	TV movie
1997	Bliss	Eva
1997	The Nanny	Elaine	TV series，Season 4（1 episode）
1997	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery	Steamrolled Henchman's Wife (uncredited)
1997	Speed 2: Cruise Control	Celeste
1998	Black Cat Run	Ada Bronnel
2000	Eventual Wife	Susan's Mother	short
2002	Any Day Now	Judge	TV series，Season 4（1 episode）
2002	Warning: Parental Advisory	Susan Baker	TV movie
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Jillian Stokes	TV series，Season 5 (episode: "Grave Danger"）
2006	Kettle of Fish	Jean

References

External links

• Lois Chiles at IMDb
• Lois Chiles at the TCM Movie Database
• Interview with Lois Chiles focusing on her role on "Dallas"

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[de] Lois Chiles

Lois Cleveland Chiles (* 15. April 1947 in Houston, Texas) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Ihre bekanntesten Rollen sind die der Linnet Ridgeway in der Agatha-Christie-Verfilmung Tod auf dem Nil und der CIA-Agentin Holly Goodhead in dem James-Bond-Film Moonraker. Chiles wurde nicht zuletzt durch ihren Auftritt in der Fernsehserie Dallas als Holly Harwood, Erbin eines Ölkonzerns, bekannt.

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- [en] Lois Chiles

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[es] Lois Chiles

Lois Cleveland Chiles (15 de abril de 1947 en Houston, Texas) es una actriz y antigua modelo estadounidense conocida por sus papeles de Dra. Holly Goodhead en la película de la saga James Bond: Moonraker de 1979 y en Creepshow 2 en donde interpretaba a Annie Lansing, una conductora que atropelló a un autoestopista.[1]

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[ru] Чайлз, Лоис

Лоис Чайлз (англ. Lois Chiles, род. 15 апреля 1947) — американская актриса и фотомодель.

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