Eva Rueber-Staier (born 1949) is an Austrian actress, television host, model and beauty queen who won Miss World 1969.
Biography Rueber-Staier was born in 1949Kleine Zeitung, 29 November 1969, p. 11. 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.https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/6c48c91b-e143-473e-984c-cca3df0b2e2e
In 1972, she co-presented the nine weekly episodes of Animal Stars with Tony Soperhttps://www.tonysoper.com/biotimeline Retrieved 6 May 2026. on BBC1, a series about popular animals like penguins, seals, and dolphins.BBC Handbook 1974 incorporating the Annual Report and Accounts 1972–73. https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/BBC/BBC-Annual/BBC-Year-Book-1974.pdf, p. 55 and 163. Retrieved 6 May 2026.Cosmopolitan, December 1972, p. 86. https://lizeggleston.com/category/interesting-people/eva-reuber-staier/ Retrieved 6 May 2026.
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 Year Title Role Notes1969 The New Adventures of Snow White Cinderella 1974 Doctor at Sea Anna-Marie episode 4: 'The Senior Officer's Perks'1974 Carry On Dick Birds of Paradise Entertainer credited as Eva Reuber-Staier1975 Space: 1999 Jane series 1, episode 2: 'Force of Life'1976 The Slipper and the Rose Princess #4 credited as Eva Reuber-Staier1976 The Chiffy Kids Ringmaster episode 6: 'Magpie Lays an Egg', credited as Eva Reuber-Staier1976 The New Avengers Episode: 'The House of Cards'1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Rublevitch 1981 For Your Eyes Only 1983 Octopussy final film role
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