Carmen du Sautoy

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Carmen du Sautoy (born 26 February 1952 in London, England) is an award-winning leading actress who has worked extensively in theatre, television and film. She has played a wide variety of roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, in London's West End, and in New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Madrid, Berlin and in many other major theatres worldwide.

She is probably best known to movie-going audiences for her role as belly-dancing Lebanese temptress Saida in the 1974 'James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. Her numerous television and film appearances include starring roles in: Lost Empires with Colin Firth and Laurence Olivier, directed by Alan Grint, a Granada Television serial, Praying Mantis with Jonathan Pryce and Cherie Lunghi directed by Jack Gold for Portman Production Films, Poor Little Rich Girl ITC US mini-series - the story of Barbara Hutton with Farrah Fawcett and Stephane Audran, directed by Charles Jarrott, La Ronde BBC (Play of the Month) with Michael Gambon, Anthony Andrews and Dorothy Tutin, directed by Kenneth Ives for BBC Television, Poirot with David Suchet, The Citadel by A.J. Cronin with Ben Cross, The Orchid House with Diana Quick and Elizabeth Hurley, A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell with Simon Russell Beale, John Gielgud and Miranda Richardson, directed by Christopher Morahan, Chessgame with Terence Stamp, Midsomer Murders with John Nettles, Hammer House of Horror with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight, Absolutely Fabulous (Christmas Special) with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, The South Bank Show Special - "At the Haunted End of the Day" (playing Dame Edith Sitwell - a film biography of Sir William Walton, directed by Tony Palmer, The Line of Beauty adapted by Andrew Davies from the Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst directed by Saul Dibb.