Lois Cleveland Chiles (born April 15, 1947) is an American actress and
former fashion model known for her roles as Dr. Holly Goodhead in the
1979 James Bond film Moonraker, and as a hit-and-run driver in 1987's
Creepshow 2, as well as such films as The Great Gatsby, The Way We
Were, Death on the Nile, and Broadcast News.Chiles was born in
Houston, the daughter of Marion Clay Chiles and Barbara Wayne Kirkland
Chiles. Her paternal uncle was oil tycoon and Texas Rangers owner
Eddie Chiles. She had two brothers: Clay Kirkland Chiles (died 1979),
and William Edmonds Chiles, president and CEO of Bristow Group, Inc.
She was raised in Alice, Texas.Chiles studied at the University of
Texas at Austin and the former Finch College in New York City, where
she was discovered by a Glamour editor looking for a young woman to
feature on the cover of the magazine's annual college issue. She
landed the job and soon had contracts with Wilhelmina Models in New
York and Elite Models in Paris. Later, she studied acting under Roy
London. She dated Don Henley but the relationship ended, and in 2005,
she married money manager Richard Gilder. They are both honorary
co-chairs of Northfield Mount Hermon, a school in Massachusetts.
Gilder donated money to the school and they named the Chiles Theater
after her.In the early 1970s, Chiles enjoyed a successful modeling
career. She made her big-screen debut in Together for Days in 1972,
followed by 1973's The Way We Were, in which she played opposite
Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, as Carol Ann, the college
sweetheart of Redford's character. She was then cast as Jordan Baker
in 1974's The Great Gatsby, alongside Mia Farrow and, again, Robert
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