Caroline Bliss (born July 12, 1961) is an English actress.
The granddaughter of composer and former Master of the Queen's Music Sir Arthur Bliss, she's best known for succeeding Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny in the last two James Bond films of The '80s, The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill, both starring Timothy Dalton as Bond. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School in the year above her successor in the role, Samantha Bond.
She's also played and taught acting on stage at the Bristol Old Vic theatre. Her husband since 1995, Andy Secombe, is an actor in his own right.
Her personal website can be found here
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Her filmography includes:
- Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story (1982) as Diana, Princess of Wales
- Chessgame (1983) as Polly Epton
- Killer Contract (1984) as Celia Routledge
- Pope John Paul II (1984) as Rosa Kossack
- My Brother Jonathan (1985) as Edie Martyn
- Dempsey and Makepeace (1985) as Laura
- James Bond as Miss Moneypenny
- The Living Daylights (1987)
- Licence to Kill (1989)
- The Moneymen (1987) as Sarah
- Braxton (1989) as Vanessa Rawlings
- The Paradise Club (1990) as DI Sarah Turnbull
- Insektors (1994, voice role)
- Ruth Rendell - A Case of Coincidence (1996) as Sarah Quin
- Blitzlicht (Inside Out in the USA, 1996)
Tropes & Trivia in her works:
- Age Lift: She's 34 years younger than Lois Maxwell was, and it showed when she replaced her as Moneypenny at age 25 (Maxwell was 58 two years prior in A View to a Kill).
- Short-Runners: Out of all Eon Productions Moneypenny actresses, so far she's the one with the least amount of films and screentime in the role, with a full scene with Bond in The Living Daylights and a short MI6 office scene in Licence to Kill (she never interacts with Bond in the latter film), due to the financial troubles of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that put the Bond films on a 6 years hiatus and Timothy Dalton exiting the role in the meantime.
