Diana Coupland was an English actress best remembered for her role as “Jean Abbott” on Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976. Coupland also dubbed the singing voices of actresses who could not sing, namely Lana Turner in Betrayed and most famously in the James Bond film Dr No, where she dubbed the singing voice of Ursula Andress. She gave up professional singing in the 1960s.

Coupland married twice. She and her first husband, composer Monty Norman divorced after 20 years of marriage, having had one daughter. In 2001, she gave evidence in a High Court after her former husband sued the Sunday Times following a 1997 article suggesting that Norman had falsely taken credit and royalties for the James Bond theme music, and that it had actually been written by John Barry. Coupland described the article as “blatantly untrue” and her former husband was awarded £30,000 [4].