The star played a jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman in the classic Bond film.
She led the Octopus cult, which Roger Moore's 007 infiltrated in a bid to find a stolen Faberge egg.
She worked with exiled Afghan Prince Kamal Khan and Soviet general Orlov to smuggle the jewels but was betrayed by both.
Bond revealed to her that the treasures she was smuggling had been swapped with a nuclear warhead to be detonated at a US Air Force base in West Germany.
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Shocked to find she was betrayed, she partnered up with the spy to deactivate the warhead.
They then returned to India to attack Khan's palace but they escaped and captured Octopussy.
Fortunately, the glamorous Bond girl was rescued by 007 and was last seen recuperating with him aboard her private boat.
Following her role as Octopussy, Maud went on to star in a number of films including A View to Kill and A Man of Passion.
She also appeared in several television series including That '70s show and Emerald Point N.A.S.
While she was given mostly minor roles following the Bond film, she said she did not regret her role.
She told Stumped Magazine: "Looking back on it, how can you not really enjoy the fact that you were a Bond girl? It's pop culture and to be a part of that is very nice."
Maud married photographer Roy Adams in 1966 but the pair divorced in 1975. She wed her second husband Charles Rubin in 1999 and has no children.