Rueber-Staier was born in 1949 in
Bruck an der Mur, Styria. She won the title of
Miss Austria and participated in the
Miss Universe 1969 contest, in which she was a top 15 semi-finalist. She also went on to win the
Miss World 1969 pageant. During her tenure, she starred in the
Bob Hope USO tour in
South Vietnam. She played a skiing
Cadbury Flake girl in a 1971 ad directed by
Ridley Scott. Her acting career contains a recurring
James Bond credit: she played General Gogol's assistant Rublevitch in the films
The Spy Who Loved Me,
For Your Eyes Only, and
Octopussy. She also has a minor role in
Carry On Dick, one of the later in the Carry On film series. Eva Rueber-Staier married British film director Ronald Fouracre at the
Caxton Hall register office on 2 January 1973. They were married until her husband's death on 2 July 1983. She has lived in an
Elizabethan Grade II listed house in
Pinner since 1984 and moved there when she was expecting her first and only child, Ronald's son Alexander Fouracre, who lives in
Willesden Green and works as a camera man. She later lived with her second husband, publisher Brian Cowan. Rueber-Staier has produced metalwork sculptures; some were exhibited during Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum's "open studios 2008". ==Filmography==