Caroline Jane Munro (/mənˈroʊ/ mən-ROH; born 16 January 1949)[1][2] is an English actress, model and singer known for her many appearances in horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.

[5][6] Munro's career began in 1966 when her mother and a photographer friend entered some headshots of her in The Evening News's "Face of the Year" contest: "I wanted to do art.

[7] One of her photo advertisements led to a screen test and a one-year contract with Paramount[8] where she was cast as Richard Widmark's daughter in the comedy western A Talent for Loving (also 1969).

She turned down the lead female roles in Hammer's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974), the unmade Vampirella,[13] Force 10 from Navarone (1978) and The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) as they all required nudity.

"I got the part – I had been signed by Hammer, for one year, for a contract, out of which I did two films, one being Dracula AD 1972, and the second one being Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter, which, kind of, would come full-circle, to Sinbad.

[15] Other appearances during this time included I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) with Joan Collins, and At the Earth's Core (1976) with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure.

She appeared also as Tammy, a nursing employee of a sinister health farm, in "The Angels of Death",[16] an episode of the TV series The New Avengers that featured also rising stars Pamela Stephenson and Lindsay Duncan.

[citation needed] In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman in favour of Bond girl Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me.

[3] Munro continued to work in numerous British and European horror and science fiction films throughout the 1970s and 1980s, such as Starcrash (1978) with David Hasselhoff, Christopher Plummer and Marjoe Gortner.

She had a cameo role in the film Don't Open Till Christmas (1984),[11] Slaughter High (1986),[11] Paul Naschy's Howl of the Devil, and Jess Franco's Faceless (1988), followed in rapid succession.

In October of the same year, Munro contributed an introduction to the LGBT+ horror short story collection Shapes in the Dark by William Jackson.

She describes appearing opposite Christopher Lee 'in full Count attire' as a 'lightbulb moment' cementing her relationship as an actor with the genre.