{{Short description|English actress (1927–2003)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Naomi Chance | image = Actress_Naomi_Chance.jpg | birth_date = December 1927 | birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England | death_date = 18 March 2003 (aged 75) | death_place = France | spouse = Guy Hamilton (1953 – before 1964) | occupation = Actress }}
'''Naomi Chance''' (born '''Naomi Freeman''', December 1927 – 18 March 2003) was an English film and television actress.<ref>{{cite web|work=BFI|title=Naomi Chance|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/19632|access-date=2011-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023040422/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/19632|archive-date=2012-10-23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Saint's Girl Friday|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/108702/The-Saint-s-Girl-Friday/overview|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130054241/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/108702/The-Saint-s-Girl-Friday/overview|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|archive-date=2013-01-30}}</ref> She appeared in many television shows from the 1950s onwards, including ''The Plane Makers'' (as Joyce Pender); five times in ''Compact'' (Harriet Stone); ''The Newcomers'' (Amelia Huntley); once in each of the following 1970s television shows: ''The Sweeney'' (Fay Mayhew); ''Within These Walls'' (Jean Betts); ''The Hanged Man'' (Jane Cowley); and many others.
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1950|| ''Night and the City'' || Nightclub Hostess || Uncredited |- |1952|| ''Wings of Danger'' || Avril Talbot || |- |1952|| ''It Started in Paradise'' || Primrose, the model || Uncredited |- |1952|| ''The Gambler and the Lady'' || Lady Susan Willens || |- |1953|| ''Top of the Form'' || Northern Woman On Station || Uncredited |- |1953|| ''Blood Orange'' || Gina, a model || |- |1953|| ''The Saint's Girl Friday'' || Carol Denby || |- |1953|| ''Strange Stories'' || Young woman || |- |1954|| ''Dangerous Voyage'' || Joan Drew || |- |1954|| ''The End of the Road'' || Molly || |- |1956|| ''A Touch of the Sun'' || Miss Caroline Lovejoy || |- |1957|| ''Suspended Alibi'' || Diana || |- |1957|| ''Confess, Killer'' || Edna Farson || with Leo McKern |- |1958|| ''The Man Inside'' || Jane Leighton || |- |1959|| ''Operation Bullshine'' || Subaltern Godfrey A.T.S. || |- |1960|| ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' || Lillie Langtry || |- |1964|| ''The Comedy Man'' || Minor Role || |- |1965|| ''He Who Rides a Tiger'' || Lady Cleveland || |}
==Personal life== Chance married director Guy Hamilton in 1953, but they later divorced (Hamilton remarried in 1964).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/guy-hamilton-obituary|title=Guy Hamilton obituary|newspaper=The Guardian |date=21 April 2016 |last1=Baxter |first1=Brian }}</ref><ref>— McFarlane, B. (2020, January 09). Hamilton, (Mervyn Ian) Guy (1922–2016), film director. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.</ref>
Her second husband was a retired naval surgeon, with whom she lived in Devon.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0151236}}
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