Nearly 10 years after portraying James Bond, Timothy Dalton starred in the 1997 romantic comedy "The Beautician and the Beast." The film follows beauty school teacher Joy Miller (played by "The Nanny"'s Fran Drescher), who is hired to tutor the children of an Eastern European dictator, Boris Pochenko (Dalton). When it is discovered that Joy is not an academic teacher but a beautician instead, she keeps up the ruse and teaches his four children to believe in themselves and have fun. She also helps President Pochenko soften his public image, as he is known in other countries as "the beast." As they continue to spend time together, he begins to find her tenacity and independence irresistible, and she learns that there is a warm heart beneath his beastly exterior.
