Joanna Pettet aka Mata Bond has died

Joanna Pettet who played James Bond’s (David Niven) daughter in “Casino Royale” (1967) has passed away. Pettet was born on the 16th of November 1942 and passed away on 7th of July 2026.

Pettet was born in London, England on 16 November 1942, the daughter of Harold Nigel Egerton Salmon and Cecily J. Tremaine, who were married in Chelsea, London in 1940. Her father, a British Royal Air Force pilot, was killed in the Second World War in 1943. After the war, her mother remarried and settled in Montréal, where Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of “Pettet”.

Through the 1970s and 1980s, Pettet made appearances on the television series Harry O, Banacek, McCloud, Mannix, Police Woman, Knight Rider, Tales of the Unexpected (the UK series) and Murder, She Wrote. In 1984, she appeared as herself in a James Bond tribute episode of The Fall Guy with ex-Bond girls Britt Ekland and Lana Wood.

Her final role was in the 1990 thriller Terror in Paradise, after which she retired from acting, still in her 40s.

We are so sorry for the loss. Our thoughts are with her family during this difficult time.