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- Birth nameVivien Mollie Rudderham
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Molly Peters was a gorgeous and voluptuous British blonde bombshell actress and model who alas only appeared in a handful of films and TV shows during her regrettably fleeting acting career in the mid 60s. Molly was born in 1942 in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. Peters started out as a model; among the men's magazines she graced the covers of and/or posed in pictorials for are "Playboy," "Modern Man," "Calvalcade," "Beau," "Ace," "Parade," "Best for Men," "Dapper," and "Escapade." Molly achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her memorably sensuous portrayal of Patricia Fearing, the fetching masseuse who gets seduced by James Bond at the Shrubland health club in "Thunderball." She was discovered by director Terence Young and has the distinction of being the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen. In the wake of her 007 stint Peters acted in two more movies and popped up on episodes of the TV shows "Armchair Theatre" and "Baker's Half-Dozen." Molly Peters had her acting career abruptly cut short after reportedly having a falling out with her agent.- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
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- She is best remembered as Bond girl Patricia Fearing, the nurse Sean Connery makes love to in a steam room and is later massaged by Connery while she's wearing nothing but a towel in Thunderball (1965). She was 23 then.
- Kim Basinger recreated her massage scene in the 1983 Thunderball (1965) remake, Never Say Never Again (1983).
- In 2011, Peters suffered a mild stroke.
- When she was young, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she gave up for adoption. Peters later married and lived with her husband in Ipswich, Suffolk. She and her husband had a son, Aaron, who tragically pre-deceased her whilst serving in the Royal Marines.
- She never had a thought of a show business career when she left home and went to London and after her shop girlfriends said that she should try modeling before turning to pin up and nude modeling. Film director Terence :Young spotted her as an extra in a crowd scene and gave her a screen test for Thunderball.
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