Background
Born Virginia Anne Northrop in London to a British mother and a United States. Army father, North spent her early years in Britain, France, Southeast Asia and finally Washington, following her father"s military postings.
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By the mid-1960s she had returned to Britain, where she worked as a model, specialising in swim wear. In 1968 she joined the newly established London agency Models 1, which has since gone on to become one of the major modelling agencies in Europe. North began her brief film career with small parts in the Bulldog Drummond film Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and the Yul Brynner vehicle The Long Duel (1967).
She returned to film two years later as Robot Number Nine in Some Girls Do (1969), the second in the Bulldog Drummond franchise, and as Olympe in two short scenes in the James Bond film On Her Majesty"s Secret Service (1969), so forever labelling her—however marginally—a "Bond girl".
The 1969 Department South episode "The Mysterious Manitoba in the Flying Machine" marked her only television appearance. Her last and perhaps best-known role was as Vincent Price"s silent assistant, the delectably deadly Vulnavia, in the horror comedy The Abominable Doctor Phibes (1971).
Except for a brief moment as she struggles not to laugh during a campy dance scene with Price, North keeps an impassive face and dispassionate poise throughout, no matter how abominable or downright weird proceedings become. With this film’s frequent change of stylish and sometimes bizarre costumes, her work as a model stands her in good stead.
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United Kingdom