Trivia

Credits Danny Boyle with really getting her film career on track when he cast her in 28 Days Later (2002).

She is the first black actress to play Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series. Harris's interpretation of Moneypenny is also significantly expanded from the character's secretarial roots; in Skyfall (2012), she is introduced as a full-fledged MI6 field agent and an agile sidekick to Bond.

One of her favorite pastimes is experiencing sensory deprivation by spending regular periods in a flotation tank.

Received her Bachelor's degree in social and political sciences from Pembroke College, Cambridge University (1998).

Gave up eating meat after seeing Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014). Prior to that experience she used to eat lamb chops so regularly for breakfast she was nicknamed "Lamb Chop" for a time.

Claims she was indirectly responsible for the rumor that went viral about Idris Elba being the next James Bond. While she was on a press tour for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) in which she played Elba's wife, she was asked by the press if she thought he would make a great Bond. Naturally enough she replied, "Absolutely yes!" Thereafter the press quoted, "Naomie says Idris Elba to be next Bond".

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2017 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Drama. She is an actress in London, England.

Attended and graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England.

She is best known to American audiences for her roles as Tia Dalma in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and as Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond series, beginning with Skyfall (2012).

Her mother remarried when Naomie was 11-years-old, her biological father having left before Naomie was even born. Her stepfather was a chef in the south of France and her stepbrother and stepsister are 20 years younger than her.

Replaced Lupita Nyong'o in the role of Angela Rivera in Southpaw (2015) after Nyong'o backed out of the project.

Naomie is very close to her mother Lisselle Kayla in every sense of the word, living just several doors away from her in Muswell Hill, North London (UK).

Her all-time favorite movie is the musical drama The Sound of Music (1965).

She appeared in two films that earned $1 billion at the worldwide box-office, as did Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway.

Attended London's St. Marylebone School, before she attended Woodhouse College.

She is the only Bond girl other than Eunice Gayson and Lèa Seydoux to appear in more than one film as the same character.