She drew fame at age 20, painted in gold, in the Bond film’s opening credits, then went on to appear in “A Hard Day’s Night,” with the Beatles, and other productions, before turning to art and politics.
Margaret Nolan, a stage and screen actress whose gold-painted body was used as a canvas to project the opening credits of the James Bond film “Goldfinger” and who played the character Dink in the movie, has died. She was 76. She died on Oct.5 at her home in Belfast Park, London. The cause of death was cancer, said her son Oscar Deeks, who confirmed her death. In a career that was predominantly in the 1960s and 1970s, Ms. Nolan appeared in numerous BBC television productions and in films, including “No Sex Please, We’re British” (1973) and “Carry On Girls” (1973). She also appeared in “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964), the musical comedy featuring the Beatles. She appeared in an uncredited role as “Grandfather’s Girl at Casino,” according to the IMDb.com. But it was the opening title sequence of “Goldfinger” (1964), which was projected onto Ms. Nolan’s body as if it were a screen, that brought her fame. “Squeezed into a gold leather bikini, her skin painted the same shimmering hue, the statuesque starlet Margaret Nolan (41-23-37) stood still while scenes from the just-finished James Bond movie ‘Goldfinger’ were projected onto her curves, The New York Times reported in 2005 of the film shoot, which it also described as “long and meticulous.” The movie’s title sequence went on to be a featured exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2012-13.
