Tania Mallet (19 May 1941 – 30 March 2019) was an English model and former actress. She was Helen Mirren's cousin; her mother and Mirren's father were siblings. Her mother Olga Mironoff was Russian and her father Henry Mallet was English.
In 1961, she appeared twice on the cover of Vogue and then as herself in the Michael Winner short film Girls Girls Girls. She unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love, but later landed the role of Tilly Masterson in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Afterwards, she became dissatisfied with the strict scheduling and the low pay of being an actress (according to her, despite her attempts to negotiate her salary, she made more in a day as a model than she did in a week as a actress), so she went back to modelling full time. Her only other acting role was in the 1976 The New Avengers episode "The Midas Touch" as Sara, and she was uncredited.
Despite her departure from acting, she continued to appear in talk shows and documentaries about James Bond, and she also generously gave her autograph to James Bond fans.
She was married twice. Her second marriage was to Simon Radcliffe in 1976, which lasted until his death in 2016. According to Helen Mirren, she was "impossibly beautiful and kind" and "a loyal and generous person" who used her earnings from modelling to pay for her brother's education and financially support her mother.
She passed away at age 77 from undisclosed causes. A day after her death was announced, Mirren released a tribute to her.
