Miss World 1977 Mary Stävin (Brief Breasts) in Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
31-year old Swedish actress-model-soccer groupie-Miss World 1977 Mary Stävin [1][2][3][4][5][6] (Brief Breasts) & Elizabeth Shé [1] One-Nude Wonder (Brief T&A) in Howling V: The Rebirth (1989)
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Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin (born 20 August 1957) is a Swedish actress and model who won Miss World 1977 in London. She is the third Swede to win the Miss World crown.
She carved out a successful career modelling. At one point she replaced Farrah Fawcett as the face of Faberge.
Among her more prominent acting roles are bit parts in two of Roger Moore’s James Bond films. In Octopussy (1983), she played an Octopussy girl (and enjoyed more screen time than any of the others). Producer Cubby Broccoli spotted her potential as an actress and offered to send her to drama school. Mary enthusiastically took up the offer, and was subsequently offered a role in the next Bond film, A View To A Kill (1985) as Kimberley Jones in the exciting pre-title sequence.
She had supporting roles as the character Tanya in the 1986 horror movie House, which starred William Katt, and the horror film Open House (1987), starring Joseph Bottoms. Her other films included Alien Terminator (1988) with Roger Moore’s daughter Deborah, The Opponent (1988), Strike Commando 2 (1988), Born to Fight (1989) and Howling V: The Rebirth (1989). She also played the Icelandic businesswoman Heba in “Twin Peaks” (Season 1, Ep. 6).
In addition to acting, Stävin released the exercise album Shape Up and Dance with George Best and appeared in two music videos for Adam Ant. These were “Ant Rap” (1981) and “Strip” (1983).
Stävin resides in Beverly Hills, California with husband Nicholas Wilcockson, a British businessman. She has a daughter named Liliana Rose.
What Happens to a beauty queen after the youth goes?
Back in 1977 the Miss World beauty pageant was won by a young (of course) beautiful Swedish girl by the name of Mary Stavin. No one will know that name today but at the time she was quite the star.
She achieved a level of fame from her victory and promptly went on to do, well, very little by way of merit.
The point here it to consider what she did after this win. She did in fact make a fair stab at it. No beauty queen goes on to study medicine (at least not in 1977). Back then it seems you tried to get in to acting, but only glamorous screen roles! (stage would be far too low key) and basically work at maintaining your credibility for space on the red carpet.
In Mary‘s case she went on to 2 small roles in the Bond Films “Octopussy” and then a slightly larger role (she got to speak a couple of lines) in “A View To A Kill”. Not bad really when you consider the number of people, like Posh Spice, who tried to become actresses, did so with considerably more resources to work with and then fail even to make it to the big screen in any capacity, but then looks-wise she is not a contender.
Mary went on to appear in the 80s horror comedy “House” and the cult TV show “Twin Peaks” but after this it seemed ordained that she would ascend no higher.
In the time of winning Miss World and peaking in her acting career she sadly ended up being one of George Best’s trophy shags, doubtless a badge of distinction in the 60s and early 70s, but by the time Mary ended up with old George his sell-by date.
Today she lives the high-life with her husband (a successful British business man) and she has a beautiful daughter, but really she must reflect that there was a point after winning her title when anything was possible, and now she looks back at a very thin Wikipedia page.
Miss World pageants are a bit of a flimsy distinction really, a small group of individuals select you as this years most desirable and then 40 years latter no one even remembers your name or face.
Today Mary lives quietly in Beverly Hills and even works in a library on Mondays (we read) but it must all seem very distant from that moment she was voted “Most beautiful women in the world”.
As the tiara is put on your head and the title bestowed on you, would you really think that in 39 years you will be working in a library. Life is funny like that and one suspects that its a story repeated by most people to different degrees.