Margaret Lacey

MARGARET LACEY d1988. British character actress and ballet teacher. She appeared in over 30 films between 1957-1985, usually playing a sweet old lady or motherly figure in minor roles. She is best remembered internationally for her minor role in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) in which she played Mrs. Whistler (a seemingly innocent Christian school teacher) who smuggles diamonds in her bible for the henchmen Mr Wint and Mr. Kidd. The character is later found murdered and her body recovered out of an Amsterdam canal