- Though she is not French, French is her native language, since she grew up there. She has also acted on the French stage, and claimed that she is much quicker and extroverted in French since it is a Romance language.
- Almost died in 2006 from a brain hemorrhage during a workout.
- Cousin of singer Mike d'Abo, and hence first cousin once removed of his daughter, Olivia d'Abo.
- Regretted her nude layout in "Playboy" magazine to promote the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987). She said that she really disliked the pictures, because they were so pedestrian.
- She didn't know her cousin Olivia d'Abo very well, until she moved to California, and they both decided to purchase a house together in 1988.
- She continues to work as a model, even as she approaches the age of sixty.
- Her maternal grandfather was a Czarist army general from the Republic of Georgia and her grandmother was from the wealthiest family in Georgia. When the Soviets took over in 1922, the French government invited them to emigrate. Penniless in Paris, her grandfather fell back on one of the delicacies of his native land and actually made yogurt in France for a living. He lived to be 96 years old.
- She first met her husband, director Hugh Hudson for the leading role of Jane in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), but she felt that he already had somebody else in mind for the role. (Andie MacDowell played Jane in the finished film.) She didn't connect with him until 15 years later when she met him at a dinner party. They became involved and married four years later in 2003.
- Nov. 2002 - Hosted Bond Girls Are Forever (2002) on the American Movie Classics network, showcasing the allure of "Bond Girls" from the James Bond series of films. In addition to sharing her own stories and experiences from The Living Daylights (1987), she interviewed such past and present Bond Girls as Halle Berry, Jill St. John, the first Bond Girl Ursula Andress, and Sophie Marceau.
- Was rejected for the role of the Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985) because she appeared too young. It went to Fiona Fullerton.
- Georgian mother and Dutch father. Brought up in Paris and Geneva.
- She and her husband Hugh Hudson worked on a documentary about brain trauma, inspired by Maryam's 2006 real-life surgery from a brain aneurysm.
- Her father was descended from a Finnish family that moved to The Netherlands when Finland was a part of Sweden, and they eventually moved to England. He had contracted meningitis shortly before Maryam was born, and the disease destroyed his brain; it made him an invalid, and unable to speak, until he died 35 years later.
- Her mother headed the UNICEF greeting card operation in Europe.
- She became friends with Margaux Hemingway when they acted together in Double Obsession (1992). She believed that Hemingway could have been a good actress if she had formal training, and that the only reason she was cast in the film was because of her name. She also believed that her death in 1996 at age 41 was accidental. She remembered her not as a victim, but as a sweet, vulnerable and caring friend; a woman who may have been injured by a too early brush with the limelight but was not destroyed by it; someone who struggled to overcome her disappointment and find meaning in the ordinary events of her life.
- Her big supporter on The Living Daylights (1987) was associate producer Barbara Broccoli who saw to it that she was cast as the main James Bond girl. The director John Glen referred to Maryam as "Barbara's friend" in his memoir.
- According to the book "The Making of The Living Daylights" by Charles Helfenstein, director John Glen described Miss d'Abo as "The most sophisticated Bond lady since Diana Rigg.".
- In 1986, when she played the role of the Bond girl, she made sure that she didn't come across as a bimbo. Her passion for women's rights continued to 2011, when she joined a women's rights march that culminated at London's arts and culture complex, the Southbank Centre, hosting "Women of the World," a festival showcasing women's achievement.
- Director John Glen claims that she is one of his favorite actresses, since he cast her in three projects: The Living Daylights (1987), Takeover (1995) and The Point Men (2001).
- She beat out Virginia Hey for the role of the main Bond girl in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987), but Hey did secure a small role in the film.
- She almost got married when she was 22 years old and later said that she was glad it didn't happen because she wasn't ready for marriage then.
- When she was a young girl, she attended parties where Peter Ustinov was a guest. When she was a preteen, introduced Grace Kelly at a fund-raiser and presented her with a bouquet of flowers. She totally flubbed her lines, but Kelly kissed her on the cheek anyway.
- She had an uncredited role in the Oscar-winning picture Out of Africa (1985) She's in the very beginning of the film at 2 minutes 15 seconds where she's at an snowy outdoor hunting event, when she says the line "It's too cold for champagne" when she pours the champagne to Klaus Maria Brandauer and passes Meryl Streep without offering her champagne.
- Her mother Nina died in 2020, after reaching the age of 100.
- Has an admitted phobia of explosions.
- According to the book "The Making of The Living Daylights" by Charles Helfenstein, Miss d'Abo's favorite Bond girl is Diana Rigg who played Mrs. Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
- Directed by two Academy Award winners in the same year (1985): Taylor Hackford and Sydney Pollack.
- She studied at London's Drama Centre.
- Brought up in Paris and Geneva and while her mother tongue is French she speaks English without an accent.
- Introduced her friend Pricilla Phillips to Roger Waters at a restaurant. Pricilla became Roger's third wife.
- Right after The Living Daylights (1987), she was offered roles in what she described as "two bankable exploitation films" but she turned both of them down.
- Is a smoker.
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