Canadian actress LOIS MAXWELL has died. She was 80.

The Golden Globe-winning star - famed for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies - died at the Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia, on

Saturday evening (29Sep07).

Maxwell starred alongside Sir Sean Connery in Bond's first movie Dr No, in 1962. She played the role until 1985, when she appeared in A View To A Kill

with Sir Roger Moore.

She last appeared on the big screen in the 2001 thriller The Fourth Angel alongside Forest Whitaker and Jeremy Irons.