Honor Blackman, James Bond actress who starred in The Avengers, dies at 94

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Blackman played leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale, the first regular female partner of John Steed, on the BBC spy series from 1962 to 1964. Blackman departed the series as it was growing in popularity to star in the third Bond film Goldfinger as Pussy Galore.