Born in Canning Town, then in Essex, Honor Blackman entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a teenager, supplementing her studies with clerical work for the Home Office. After graduating she moved to the West End, understudying in The Guinea Pig and appearing in The Blind Goddess (1947). Her screen debut arrived with a silent role in Fame Is the Spur (1947), followed by parts in Quartet…
