Honor Blackman

In September 2004 she briefly joined the Coronation Street cast. Carter is interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. A song she recorded with Patrick MacNee in the 1960s, Kinky Boots, was a surprise hit in 1990 after it was played incessantly by Radio 1 breakfast show presenter Simon Mayo. They were further shocked to discover that Carter had been living as a closeted lesbian, and that custody of her children had been left to her domestic partner. Following her early career as a glamorous leading lady, she returned to television in the ITV sitcom, The Upper Hand, during the 1990s. She was the mother of two adopted teenagers. When she died, friends and family were surprised to discover barely $200 in her bank account. In 1963, she married the actor, Maurice Kaufmann, and they appeared together in the film, Fright (1971); they divorced in 1975. Carter died from heart disease complicated by diabetes in 2003.

Blackman trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Born Nell Ruth Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter won a Tony Award for her work in Ain't Misbehavin and appeared in Annie on Broadway and in the television shows Gimme a Break! and The Match Game. She is mostly remembered for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 - January 23, 2003) was an American singer and actress. Honor Blackman (12 December 1927 -) is a British actress.