Let's make this birthday one to remember.

63 years old (Born on December 27, 1960)

Actress; She is famous from Kara Milovy in 007 - The Living Daylights (1987).

Her father was descended from a Finnish family that moved to Holland when Finland was occupied by Sweden, and they eventually to England. He had contracted meningitis shortly before Maryam was born, and the disease destroyed his brain; it made him an invalid, and unable to speak, until he died 35 years later. In 1986, when she played the role of the Bond girl, she made sure that she didn't come across as a bimbo. Her passion for women's rights continued to 2011, when she joined a women's rights march that culminated at London's arts and culture complex, the Southbank Centre, hosting "Women of the World," a festival showcasing women's achievement. She almost got married when she was 22 years old and later said that she was glad it didn't happen because she wasn't ready for marriage then. Cousin of singer Mike d`Abo, and hence first cousin once removed of his daughter, Olivia d`Abo. She and her husband Hugh Hudson worked on a documentary about brain trauma, inspired by Maryam's 2006 real-life surgery from a brain aneurysm.

Almost died in 2006 from a brain hemorrhage during a workout.

Her mother headed the UNICEF greeting card operation in Europe.

Regretted her nude layout in "Playboy" magazine to promote the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987). She said that she really disliked the pictures, because they were so pedestrian.

Director John Glen claims that she is one of his favorite actresses, since he cast her in three projects: The Living Daylights (1987), "Space Precinct" (1994) and The Point Men (2001).

Though she is not French, French is her native language, since she grew up there. She has also acted on the French stage, and claimed that she is much quicker and extroverted in French since it is a Romance language.

Her maternal grandfather was a Czarist army general from the Republic of Georgia and her grandmother was from the wealthiest family in Georgia. When the Soviets took over in 1922, the French government invited them to emigrate. Penniless in Paris, her grandfather fell back on one of the delicacies of his native land and actually made yogurt in France for a living. He lived to be 96 years old.

Georgian mother and Dutch father. Brought up in Paris and Geneva.

Nov. 2002 - Hosted Bond Girls Are Forever (2002) (TV) on the American Movie Classics network, showcasing the allure of "Bond Girls" from the James Bond series of films. In addition to sharing her own stories and experiences from The Living Daylights (1987), she interviewed such past and present Bond Girls as Halle Berry, Jill St. John, the first Bond Girl Ursula Andress, and Sophie Marceau.

Was rejected for the role of the Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985) because she appeared too young. It went to Fiona Fullerton.

Has an admitted phobia of explosions.