Blackman was born in Plaistow, Newham, London to a statistician father. She trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, after persuading her father that an appropriate birthday gift would be acting lessons.

Blackman's films include: Quartet and So Long at the Fair with Dirk Bogarde, the 1958 story of the Titanic's sinking A Night to Remember; Life at the Top with Laurence Harvey, The Virgin and the Gypsy, and the Western films Shalako with Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot and Something Big with Dean Martin.

She played the role of Hera in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also did an overdub Read more...

Blackman remains the second-oldest actress to play a Bond Girl, the oldest being Deborah Kerr in the 1967, non-EON Bond film Casino Royale. She is one of two Bond girls who was older than the actor playing Bond, the other being Diana Rigg in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. (Rigg had earlier replaced Blackman on The Avengers in the role of Emma Peel. As a coincidence, Joanna Lumley, who was to later Read more...