Margaret Lacey

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Margaret Lacey
Lacey as Mrs. Whistler in Diamonds are Forever 1971
Born	1910 Wales
Died	October 4, 1988 Llandudno
Years active	1957 - 1985

Margaret Lacey (1910- October 4, 1988) was a Welsh actress.

She appeared in over 30 films between 1957 and 1985 mostly playing a sweet old lady or motherly figure in minor roles. She is perhaps best remembered internationally for starring in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which she played a seemingly innocent Christian school teacher who smuggled diamonds in her bible for the henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. In the film she was later founded murdered and her body recovered out of a Amsterdam canal.

Lacey also made appearances in Z Cars and her last credited appearance was in Magnum P.I. in 1985.