Gloria Hendry
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Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949 in Winter Haven, Florida) is an African-American actress. She is sometimes credited as "Carl Van Vechten."
Gloria was raised in Newark, New Jersey. She originally trained for a career as a legal secretary, but changed careers after becoming a Playboy Bunny. She later starred in several 1970's Blaxploitation films, including a role as the wife of film gangster Tommy Gibbs in the 1973 films Black Caesar and its sequel Hell Up in Harlem. She also portrayed the martial arts expert, Sydney, in Black Belt Jones.
She is best known for portraying Bond girl Rosie Carver in the film Live and Let Die. She became the first African American romantically-involved Bond girl (Trina Parks as Thumper in the film Diamonds Are Forever was not "romantically-involved"). When the film was first released in South Africa, her love scenes with Roger Moore were cut because it was prohibited by the Apartheid government.
Gloria is currently working as a legal secretary at a downtown Los Angeles law firm.
[edit] External links
- Gloria Hendry at the Internet Movie Database
- The Gloria Hendry Interview
- Gloria Hendry's Fansite (in French)
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