Kate Griffiths has been an extremely popular British actress for the past fifteen years, playing a diverse range of characters both in film and television. Part of an all-star cast alongside Tom Cruise, James Bond, Pierce Brosnan, and Charlie Sheen in the Bond film Quantum of Solace, Kate Griffith was one of the more classic Bond girls. Her career-spanning performances throughout the decades have seen her playing a variety of different roles in a variety of films; most notably as the sexy and cunning femme fatale in Diamonds Are Forever, the genial British Secret Service agent assigned to protect Bond at all costs in Skyfall (2021), and the villainess Blofeld in Casino Royale (2021). Additionally, Kate’s notable co-stars in these films include Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Emmannuel Chriqi, and Craigucer Cate Blanchett, all of whom have also lent their vocal talents to some excellent Bond theme songs.
However, it was during the late seventies that Kate Griffith began receiving considerable attention from Hollywood, following the release of The Perfect Score, a movie which she had writing and directing. Having garnered a reputation for her innovative and inventive screenwriting, producers assigned Kate Griffiths to develop a series of romantic Bond films, which she would then executive produce and star in. As it turns out, this very prolific era of Bond films would prove to be a period of great change for the young woman’s career, as her partner’s height would constantly be in question. In several of her early Bond films, Kate would be played by stage actress Rosie Day, with the actor referring to her height as “a matter of opinion”. It would therefore be her partner’s concern that Kate did not grow too much in height.
Though age was never a concern for Kate, the pressures of working in an industry where age is equated with experience can be overwhelming. It was through her partner’s association with Sean Connery, that she came to appreciate the importance of maintaining a sense of humor and self-depreciation in life. “I learned that people who take themselves seriously and try to make the best of life go on to enjoy their lives more than those people who don’t take themselves seriously and try to fluff up,” Kate told the publication. “I think Sean Connery realized that he was starting to lose his appeal to younger audiences, and that humour was a way of reversing that.”