Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947) is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her role as Dr Holly Goodhead in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in ‘Moonraker’.

Throughout the early 1970s, Chiles maintained top model status. She made her big-screen debut in Together For Days in 1972, followed by 1973’s The Way We Were, in which she played opposite Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand as the college sweetheart of Redford’s character. Riding on the success of that film, she gave a memorable performance as Jordan Baker in 1974’s The Great Gatsby, alongside Mia Farrow and, again, Robert Redford. She appeared in Death on the Nile in 1978, and in 1979 she was seen in what is perhaps her most famous role, that of Dr Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore’s James Bond in Moonraker, which added to her résumé the title of Bond girl.

In recent years, she has been an assistant professor of theater at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas. Unlike some “Bond girls”, Chiles good naturedly says that “being a Bond-girl is a fun way to be remembered” although she jokes that being asked to sigh “Oh, James” is annoying as “you can’t live up to people’s fantasies”. Chiles is still friendly with the Bond producers and often attends premieres of the series’ films and other events.