Samantha Bond (born 27 November 1961) is an English actress, perhaps best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films during the series' Pierce Brosnan years, and for her role on "Downton Abbey" as the wealthy widow Lady Rosamund Painswick, sister of Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham. She is also well-known for originating the role of "Miz Liz" Probert in the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Bond is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Bond's first acting role came at the age of 21, as a student in the original stage production of Denise Deegan's play about a girls' school, "Daisy Pulls It Off", which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983. Her earliest television roles took place during the same year, when she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram), in the BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and Rumpole's pupil in chambers "Miz Liz" Probert in the fourth series of "Rumpole of the Bailey". In 1985, she appeared as Julia Simmons in the BBC's televised adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel "A Murder is Announced", part of the Miss Marple series.

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