Biography

Born in Switzerland to Evelyn St.Croix (aka Evelyn Beatrice Ste Croix Fleming née Rose, but by marriage a Fleming) and painter Augustus John. At the age of 23 she was informed by her father that they were her parents.

Illegitimate half-sister of Ian Fleming and Peter Fleming.

Professional cellist and later cello teacher.

Ian Fleming is said to have based a character on Amaryllis Fleming, his illegitimate cellist half-sister. The character of Kara Milovy played by Maryam d'Abo in the film The Living Daylights (1987) is suggested by the golden-haired cellist in the original Ian Fleming short story "The Living Daylights". This was published in the "Octopussy" James Bond short story collection. The sniper sequence in this movie is basically an in toto adaptation of the short story. The story reads: "There was something almost indecent in the idea of that bulbous, ungainly instrument between her splayed thighs. Of couse Suggia had managed to look elegant, and so did that girl Amaryllis somebody.".

She doubled for Bette Davis whose character was a cellist in Connecting Rooms (1970).