True Bond Girls
This is a list of all the Bond Girls that James Bond has had a relationship with, or I should say the ones he has shagged, I put it in that coarse way because it seemed to me that all the Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and to a lesser extent Brosnan and Dalton films, were an exercise in getting laid with as many women as possible, even Lazonby shagged a couple of others on his way to getting married to Diana Rigg. I will also include listings on other memorable women that were in the films, in a notable role whether he had any kind of relationship with or not, there were a few that he did not shag but that were emotionally involved with him in some way such as Moneypenny, these are at the end of the main list.
Some people rate any woman that is in a Bond movie as a 'Bond Girl', and others only the main stars, or young and beautiful women, but do they include women like Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) who was an ugly short Hench woman for SPECTRE in 'From Russia With Love', I don't think so, they just want the sexy ones. To me that's not right, it has to be ones he has had some kind of sexual liaison with regardless of how sexy or attractive she may or may not look, which will rule out Rosa Klebb anyway, but she will be in the latter list of notable's.
I will also include the girls from 'Never Say Never Again' (1983) despite it not being in the main franchise and in opposition to 'Octopussy' it was made in the same style. There are a few other James Bond 007 features around, but the only one with any quality worth noting is the original 'Casino Royale' (1967), the very funny spoof comedy, I will mention the girls from that in the secondary list as none were True Bond Girls except Ursula Andress, and another three which appeared in the usual franchise anyway.
You might find a few surprise entries, of women that you did not realise were either in the film, or didn't realise they had sex with Bond, maybe a few you thought as Bond girls but who are not in the main list due to my criteria, such as Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), also a few names you might never even heard of!
In chronological order, here are the ones I have entered :-
Some people rate any woman that is in a Bond movie as a 'Bond Girl', and others only the main stars, or young and beautiful women, but do they include women like Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) who was an ugly short Hench woman for SPECTRE in 'From Russia With Love', I don't think so, they just want the sexy ones. To me that's not right, it has to be ones he has had some kind of sexual liaison with regardless of how sexy or attractive she may or may not look, which will rule out Rosa Klebb anyway, but she will be in the latter list of notable's.
I will also include the girls from 'Never Say Never Again' (1983) despite it not being in the main franchise and in opposition to 'Octopussy' it was made in the same style. There are a few other James Bond 007 features around, but the only one with any quality worth noting is the original 'Casino Royale' (1967), the very funny spoof comedy, I will mention the girls from that in the secondary list as none were True Bond Girls except Ursula Andress, and another three which appeared in the usual franchise anyway.
You might find a few surprise entries, of women that you did not realise were either in the film, or didn't realise they had sex with Bond, maybe a few you thought as Bond girls but who are not in the main list due to my criteria, such as Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), also a few names you might never even heard of!
In chronological order, here are the ones I have entered :-
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- Eunice Gayson was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead.
Gayson was originally to have been a regular in the Bond film series, but her character was dropped. Gayson's voice in Dr. No and From Russia with Love was overdubbed by voice actress Nikki van der Zyl, as were the voices of nearly all the actresses appearing in the first two Bond films, though Gayson's real voice can still be heard in original trailers for Dr. No.
As the first female to be seen in Dr. No together with James Bond (Sean Connery), she is officially the very first actress to play a Bond girl.
Decades later, Gayson's daughter appeared in a casino scene in the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye.
She also starred in the Hammer horror film The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958).
Gayson died on 8 June 2018, aged 90.The very first, she played Sylvia Trench, he met her in a casino scene at the start of 'Dr. No' (1962), and not long after they were at it. She became his girlfriend, and she reappeared as the same character at the start of the next film 'From Russia With Love' (1963) (apparently they had not long been at it at the start of that one).
She was supposed to be in the third - 'Goldeneye' (1964) but that director vetoed it, she was very nice and a good choice to be the first. I think it would have been nice if she did all the Sean Connery films with at least a short appearance at the start, as a kind of "Long Suffering Girlfriend" character. An English woman, she had a good career, mostly in British TV and recently passed away in 2018 at the ripe old age of 90, one of the oldest Bond girls. Sean Connery passed away in 2020, also aged 90. - Actress
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Striking, dark-haired beauty Zena Moyra Marshall was born of French (from her mother's side) and English/Irish (her father's) ancestry in Nairobi, Kenya. After the early death of her father, her mother remarried and moved the family to Leicestershire. Zena received her education from St Mary's Roman Catholic School in Ascot. Her interest in the acting profession matured after a wartime theatrical tour with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), while still in her teens. After completing her training at RADA, her exotic looks led to a contract with the Rank Organisation where she was groomed by the so-called 'charm school' as a sultry temptress and second lead in costume films, romantic melodramas and thrillers.
Marshall made her screen debut in the stagey, moribund epic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) with a bit-part as a handmaiden. Interestingly this film was also a screen bow for future James Bond star Roger Moore, uncredited as a Roman soldier. Marshall's subsequent career was anything but meteoric. For several years she was given only minor supporting roles in productions by Rank affiliates, such as GFD/Two Cities and Gainsborough, including Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Snowbound (1948) and So Long at the Fair (1950). A brief sojourn in Hollywood resulted in a lacklustre Allied Artists musical, Let's Be Happy (1957), in which she played an amorous redhead, rivalling star Vera-Ellen for the affections of crooner Tony Martin. During the 1950s she managed to rekindle her theatrical career and, by the end of the decade, went on tour through Germany and the Netherlands with "The Late Edwina Black". Marshall was one of the first actresses to be featured in a British television commercial (for shampoo) on early ITV. Television did, in the end, become her favoured medium; she had some of her better on-screen moments in three episodes of Danger Man (1960), opposite Patrick McGoohan, between 1961 and 1964.
Zena Marshall's main claim to fame rests on her portrayal of the Eurasian double agent, Miss Taro, in the first ever Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Her character was, incidentally, the first woman seduced by Bond, prior to his encounter with Ursula Andress in the part of Honey Ryder. Another noted beauty, the reigning Miss Jamaica, Marguerite LeWars, was originally slated to screen test for Miss Taro. However, LeWars declined for reasons of 'personal modesty' and is merely glimpsed in the film in a bit part as an unnamed photographer. Marshall herself was at first unhappy with the script, but Terence Young, who had previously worked with her on the poorly-received costume biopic The Bad Lord Byron (1949), lightened some of the dialogue with humour. In the end, the bedroom scene with Sean Connery took three days to shoot, because Marshall struggled with the idea of having to spit in her co-star's face, after Bond has her character turned over to the superintendent of police. Miss Taro remains one of the most iconic of Bond villainesses.
Marshall's last roles of note were as an Italian countess in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965), and as a secretary fighting alien enemies (alongside Charles Hawtrey, incongruously cast as an accountant) in the insipid sci-fi outing The Terrornauts (1967). After that, she retired from the screen and settled into domestic life with her third husband, the writer/producer Ivan Foxwell.Zena played the role of Miss Taro in 'Dr. No' (1962), she was a baddie, and Bond started a tradition in the very first film, by shagging the baddie girl before she got killed. Zena was the eldest but most beautiful in the film, pretty good considering the others that were in it. She started movies in 1945 17 years before Dr. No so had a bit of experience and did a few more before retiring from acting in 1967, she was Kenyan although of mixed English, French and Irish but brought up in England. She has also passed away, in 2009 aged 84.
Going by DOB she would have been the oldest Bond girl, if still alive on 1st January 2020 she would have been 95 years old, she was 5 years older than Sean Connery.- Actress
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The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of six children in a strict German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had an impetuous desire to explore the world outside Switzerland. (For instance, she was tracked down by Interpol for running away from boarding school at 17 years old.) The stunning young woman found work as an art model in Rome and did walk-on parts in three quickie Italian pictures before coming to Hollywood in 1955 and getting nowhere professionally; a four-month fling with rising star James Dean brought her good publicity but not much else. That same year, still just 19, she met and had an affair with fading matinée idol John Derek, who left his wife Pati Behrs and two kids for Ursula even though she spoke almost no English at the time. In 1957 they eloped to Las Vegas, and the new bride put her acting aspirations on hold for a few years thereafter.
1962 saw the relatively unknown Swiss beauty back on the set, playing opposite Sean Connery in the first movie version of Ian Fleming's fanciful "James Bond" espionage novels, Dr. No (1962). Andress' role as bikini-clad Honey Ryder was somewhat brief, and her Swiss/German accent so thick that her entire performance had to be dubbed by a voiceover artist. Nevertheless, her striking looks and smoldering screen presence made a strong impression on moviegoers, immediately establishing her as one of the most desired women in the world and as an ornament to put alongside some of the most bankable talent of the era, such as Elvis Presley in Fun in Acapulco (1963) and Dean Martin in 4 for Texas (1963). In 1965, she was one of several European starlets to co-star in What's New Pussycat (1965) -- a film that perhaps sums up mid-'60s pop culture better than any other -- written by Woody Allen, starring Allen and Peter Sellers, with music by Burt Bacharach, a title song performed by Tom Jones and much on-screen sexual romping.
Andress appeared in many more racy-for-their time movies in both the United States and Europe, including The 10th Victim (1965), in which she wore a famously ballistic bra, and The Blue Max (1966), where she was aptly cast as the sultry, insatiable wife of an aristocratic World War I German general. She was also featured in Casino Royale (1967), a satirical foray into the world of James Bond, and gave a sparkling performance in the T&A-filled crime caper Perfect Friday (1970). Roles as a prostitute kidnapped by outlaws in Red Sun (1971), a stewardess living on the edge in Loaded Guns (1975), and a bombshell nurse hired to titillate a doddering millionaire to death in The Sensuous Nurse (1975) all provided plenty of excuses to throw her clothes to the wind. In Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), she was notoriously stripped and slathered in orange paint by a pair of nubiles. Then she took on the sophisticated role of Louise de la Valliere, slinky, conspiratorial mistress of King Louis XIV (Beau Bridges) in The Fifth Musketeer (1979).
As for her personal life, Andress separated from Derek in 1964 and got divorced two years later, after falling in love with French superstar Jean-Paul Belmondo on the Malaysian set of Up to His Ears (1965). (Ron Ely, John Richardson and Marcello Mastroianni kept her company during the interim.) The relationship with Belmondo hit a wall in 1972, and she was next attached to her leading man from Stateline Motel (1973), Italian heartthrob Fabio Testi. When that didn't work out, Andress jumped into the dating pool, sporadically involved with a host of Lotharios including (but by no means limited to) Dennis Hopper, Franco Nero, John DeLorean and Ryan O'Neal. In 1979, she began what would be a long-term romance with Harry Hamlin, her handsome young co-star from Clash of the Titans (1981) (in which she was cast, predictably, as "Aphrodite"). While subsequently traveling in India, Andress' belly began to swell out of her clothing, and she felt very nauseous. What at first seemed a severe case of "Delhi Belly" turned out to be pregnancy, her first and only, at age 43. Hamlin encouraged her to have the baby, and on May 19, 1980, the international sex symbol gave birth to a boy named Dimitri Hamlin amid much hoopla.
After the birth of her son, Andress scaled back her career, which now focused on slight European productions, as she was raising Dimitri in Italy. This meant turning down a big-budget Mel Brooks film in lieu of Red Bells (1982) (starring old flame Nero). Occasional television stints on the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981) and critically lauded miniseries Peter the Great (1986) helped maintain her visibility as an actress. Dumped by Hamlin in 1983, she started seeing Fausto Fagone, a Sicilian student three decades her junior, in 1986. In 1991, she met a new man when things dwindled with Fagone -- karate master Jeff Speakman. Since the breakup of that relationship, her love life has gone undocumented. She last worked on a film in 2005. Apparently retired from acting, Ursula makes the rounds of charity events and pops up on foreign talk shows every now and then. She divides her time between family in Switzerland, friends in Virginia and Spain, and her properties in Rome and L.A.Most people seem to think she was the first Bond Girl, and first in 'Dr. No' (1962) but as you can see she was actually the third (fourth if you count Moneypenny), although she was the main Bond Girl in the film. She played Honey Ryder, a bikini clad shell collector, who was a bit naive and innocent, She is the youngest of the 3 Bond Girls from Dr. No, and the only one younger than Connery (by 6 years), she was beautiful but not that sexy to me (Bricklayer's shoulders), but still very attractive, unfortunately she was dubbed in the role, so that lost a bit of authenticity, and not too great an actress in it, however she had a glittering career, and was in some great movies such as the original 'Casino Royale' comedy Bond film from 1967 and one of my favourite films, 'The Blue Max' (1966), she retired in 2005, but is still going strong at 87. Many sources believe she is Swedish but she is Swiss and still partly lives in Switzerland among other places.- Aliza Gur was born Aliza Gross in Ramat Gan, Israel, in 1944. She was Miss Israel of 1960 in the Miss Universe pageant, placing in the top 15. Her parents had fled Germany during the rise to power of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and they eventually settled in Israel, where she and her brother were born.
She emigrated to the US in her 20s and settled in California, where she began her film and television career. Her television credits include guest appearances on Get Smart (1965) and The Wild Wild West (1965), among other shows. Her film credits include From Russia with Love (1963), Kill a Dragon (1967) and the cult vampire film Beast of Morocco (1968) (she was also, at 12 years of age, an extra in The Ten Commandments (1956). Her parents came to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, for a time. They passed away in the mid-'70s.She played Vida, one of the fighting Gypsy women in the Gypsy camp scene in 'From Russia With Love' (1963, on the left in the picture), after the fight scene, Bond was offered both of the girls for the night to decide who was best, which he gratefully accepted. Not knowing which he bedded first, I chose Aliza first over Martine as she is first in the cast list. She is an Israeli of German descent and won Miss Israel in 1960, she moved to California and had a reasonable career in film and TV, retiring in 1973, and happily still lives in California, now aged 77.
She has the distinction of being the youngest woman to be a Bond Girl on film, She was 19 years, 6 months and 25 days old at release. - Actress
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Brunette bombshell and second-string goddess Jamaican actress Martine Beswick(e) was born on September 26, 1941, to a British father and Portuguese/Jamaican mother in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Some brief modeling and pageant entering came to be before seeking a career in films. She allegedly once won a "Miss Autoville" contest and won a car only to sell it in order to move to and study acting in London.
While finding roles on such British TV series as "Secret Agent," "Love Story" and "Court Martial," a minor break occurred for Martine in the James Bond "007" film series. Director Terence Young cast her twice -- as the gypsy girl Zora in From Russia with Love (1963) and then as the doomed spy Paula in Thunderball (1965). After playing in the well-tanned minority ranks for years, Martine finally got noticed after cat-fighting with Raquel Welch in the cult prehistoric saga One Million Years B.C. (1966), which also starred handsome caveman John Richardson. She also starred in her own back-in-time Neanderthal low-budget Prehistoric Women (1967).
Transporting herself to Hollywood in the late 1960's, Martine guested on such shows as "It Takes a Thief," "Mannix," "The Name of the Game" and "Longstreet." She then made an infamous mark as the distaff evil incarnate in the Hammer Studio horror cult hit Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971). Other films during that time usually had her in various stages of sexy undress, including Ultimo tango a Zagarol (1973), The Kiss of Death (1974) and Seizure (1974).
She later focused on TV with such mini-movie entries as Crime Club (1975), Strange New World (1975), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), My Husband Is Missing (1978) and The Tenth Month (1979), plus the mini-series Aspen (1977) and episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Baretta," "Quincy," "The Fall Guy," "Fantasy Island," "Hart to Hart," "Buffalo Bill" and "Sledge Hammer." In the mid-1980's, Martine also found back-to-back daytime work on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1965) and Santa Barbara (1984).
On film, she would quicken pulses as Xaviera Hollander as The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980), but not return until the early 1990's with the horror films Evil Spirits (1991) and Trancers II (1991), the comedy Life on the Edge (1992) and the drama Wide Sargasso Sea (1993). After filming Night of the Scarecrow (1995), Martine retired from films.
Since then, she has mainly participated in film documentaries, providing commentary and relating her experiences on the many films in which she has appeared. She owned a removals business in London and is semiretired except for guest appearances at James Bond conventions. She did, however, more recently return (after 25 years) to star with fellow Hammer actors Caroline Munro and Veronica Carlson in a horror "tribute" to Hammer entitled House of the Gorgon (2019).She played Zora the other fighting Gypsy girl in 'From Russia With Love' (1963), to be fair she is equal 4th as I don't know who he was supposed to have bedded first, Martine also appeared in 'Thunderball' (1965) as an assistant to Bond but no sex on that occasion (well not that we know of). She has had a long career, although not famous, and despite supposedly retiring in 1995, she returned for a role in 2019 and is still working at the age of 80, she was born in Jamaica but is English and lives in England.- Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, best known for her role of Bond girl Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love (1963). She Finished 1st Runner Up in Miss Universe 1960 Competition, enough to get the attentions of Bond movie producers who chose her over 200 female prospects for the role of Tatiana Romanova.
Bianchi made a number of French and Italian movies after From Russia with Love (1963), the last being The Last Chance (1968). One of her later films was Operation Kid Brother (1967), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English (though Bianchi was again dubbed) and starring Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery.
In 2012, Bianchi appeared in a small role in the documentary film We're Nothing Like James Bond.The main Bond Girl and the theme of the title 'From Russia With Love' (1963), she played Tatiana Romanova, the "Russian" clerk who was supposed to lure Bond into a trap by SPECTRE saying she was in love with him before ever knowing him, it was a poor role though, she not only did not look Russian, she was dubbed with an Italian accent, she is Italian and looked it, she might have well used her own voice! And despite being one of the enemy and complicit in the plan to trap Bond, she did not really take the baddies side and helped Bond, before escaping on a train with him. The intention was for her to marry Bond once in England but the film did not get that far, pity it would have looked good if he had married her, however he supposedly still had his girlfriend back in England, Sylvia Trench, so that might be why they terminated the film in Venice, before getting married, to avoid any scandal in the story, it was still a bit old fashioned in those days. It also would have meant that Bond would actually have been married three times (see later entries, and not once as supposed), but we never got there.
Daniela although very pretty was not the most beautiful in the film, for me that went to a stunning Belly Dancer played by Lisa Guiraut (listed in the later section), an English girl who was a real Belly Dancer, but I can't count her as a Bond Girl as she did not have a liaison with Bond. Daniela was a Beauty Contest winner but only had a short career in film, her last was in 1968, she is still with us though, living in Italy aged 81. - This cosmopolitan actress is best remembered for appearing as different characters in two early James Bond films. Multilingual Nadezda "Nadja" Poderegin hailed from Kraljevo, a town in present day Serbia (then Yugoslavia). Her father, a Ukrainian-born scientist and lecturer, was killed during World War II when she was just nine years old. With her mother and sister Nadja subsequently resettled in Yugoslavia's capital. She abandoned plans for a career in journalism after commencing studies at Belgrade's Academy of Dramatic Arts (eventually graduating with a B.A.) and was soon featured in a few locally made films.
Her first major role (after shortening her surname to "Regin") was in Das Haus an der Küste (1954), a German-Yugoslav co-production, filmed around picturesque Dubrovnik. It gained some international exposure via distribution through the Rank Organisation and this led to more substantial film offers in Germany. For much of the 50s, Nadja appeared near the top of the bill in a string of romantic dramas and comedies opposite well-seasoned German and Austrian stars like Curd Jürgens, Rudolf Prack, Theo Lingen and Peter Pasetti.
Following her marriage to a Polish war veteran, Nadja moved to Britain. Having a natural aptitude for picking up languages quickly, she added English to her repertoire within a few months, though (by her own admission) her accent tended to restrict her "to either sexy parts or as a spy". Her own favourite film role was the (typically British) wartime comedy Don't Panic Chaps (1959) (starring Dennis Price and George Cole) in which she provided the romantic spark.
She later had guest spots opposite Patrick McGoohan in Danger Man (1960) and Roger Moore in The Saint (1962) before landing a small role as the girlfriend of MI 6 station chief Kerim Be (Pedro Armendáriz) in From Russia with Love (1963). Arguably, Nadja's best known role was as the double-crossing belly-dancer Bonita in Goldfinger (1964). A memorable scene has James Bond (played by Sean Connery) preempting an assailant's attack by catching his reflection in one of Bonita's eyes (photographed in close-up), then spinning her around and using her as a shield.
She swapped the acting profession in the 1970s to work behind the cameras as a script reader/consultant for Rank and Hammer studios. In tandem with her sister, she set up a publishing company (Honeyglen Publishing Ltd) in 1980 and latterly published her own e-book novel "The Victims and the Fools" under the name Nadja Poderegin.Nadja is the first in 'Goldfinger' (1964), she is playing a Belly-Dancer called Bonita (Belly Dancers were popular themes in the early Bond movies) in the intro, the inclination is that he has already shagged her before the scene starts. She actually appeared in the last film 'From Russia With Love', but not as a Bond Girl, in that she played Kerim Bey's mistress, a love interest but not for Bond. She was very pretty, Nadja was a Serb born when it was Yugoslavia in 1931, later moving to England in the 1950's and staying, she had a short acting career in Yugoslavia which continued in England until 1968, when she retired from acting to work behind the camera, unfortunately she passed away in 2019, in London aged 87. - Born in 1943 in Hampstead, London, Margaret Nolan had a career as a glamour model under the name of Vicky Kennedy, even posing for Playboy magazine. Entering films in 1963 in Saturday Night Out (1964) saw her catapulted into Goldfinger (1964). Often cast mainly for her fabulous buxom figure and good looks, Margaret was perfectly cast in Carry on Girls (1973), made six "Carry On..." performances in all and was very successful in all of her roles, displaying good comedy acting skills. Nolan is probably best remembered for her role as 'Dink' in Goldfinger (1964), and for her "Carry On..." film roles. Margaret Nolan died on October 5, 2020, aged 76, in London from cancer.Blink and you might miss it, Margaret appeared in a very short scene as "Dink" in 'Goldfinger' (1964), on a beach bed beside the pool with Bond, the inclination being she was his girlfriend at the time, something which did not appear to concern Bond too much as he was shagging Shirley Eaton a few mins later, she was only on screen for a short time but it is assumed that he had been shagging her. Margaret is English and had a good acting career, she also did several Carry-On films, being athletic, curvaceous and with big boobs she fit the bill, she was also very pretty and a good actor, she retired from acting in the 80's but came back in 2011 for one film, unfortunately she passed away in 2020 aged 76.
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Long before Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and company showed up in 1980s TV households, Hollywood had, in effect, its own original "Golden Girl"...literally...in the form of stunning British actress Shirley Eaton. Although she found definitive cult stardom in 1964 with her final golden moment in a certain "007" film, Shirley was hardly considered an "overnight success". For nearly a decade, she had been out and about uplifting a number of 1950s and early 1960s British dramatic films and slapstick farce. Shirley became quite a sought-after actress internationally but, by the end of the decade, the dark-browed blonde beauty intentionally bade Hollywood and her acting career a fond and permanent farewell. She has never looked back.
Born in Edgware, Middlesex, England on January 12, 1937 (some references incorrectly list her birth year as 1936), Shirley Jean Eaton began on stage as a youth, making her debut at age 12 in "Set to Partners" (1949) and following it up the following year with Benjamin Britten's "Let's Make an Opera". Her first on-camera work was on TV in 1951, but it didn't take long before the pretty teen began to provide fleeting, decorative interest on film. Under contract to Alexander Korda in her early career, she found an encouraging break with minor parts in such comedies as Doctor in the House (1954) and The Love Match (1955). She quickly rose to co-star status in the droll features, Panic in the Parlor (1956), Three Men in a Boat (1956), Your Past Is Showing (1957) and Doctor at Large (1957), while appearing opposite such top stars as Peter Sellers and Dirk Bogarde, among others.
Upon Korda's death in 1956, Shirley briefly joined the Rank Organization. Every once in awhile, she relished playing a fetching villainess in a drama, such as in The Girl Hunters (1963) when not playing it straight as the beautiful foil caught up in some of Britain's finest madcap farces, which included the highly popular "Carry On" movies. Trained also in ballet and voice, Shirley was afforded a great chance to sing and dance with the film, Life Is a Circus (1960), and managed to grace the BBC as well in a few of their musical formats of the 1950s.
Shirley's career hit international status, of course, when she played "Jill Masterson", one of a bevy of beauties linked to titular archvillain Gert Fröbe in the film, Goldfinger (1964). And like many of the Bondian girls before and since, her character dearly paid for her furtive romantic clinches with Sean Connery's magnetic "James Bond". Shirley's memorable 24-karat gold death scene (She was found by Bond, painted head to toe in gold paint, and had "died of skin suffocation".), became the eye-catching draw for the movie. The image was splattered everywhere -- on movie posters, in press junkets and in publicity campaigns. Despite the formidable attention the movie received in the form of Honor Blackman's high-kicking "Pussy Galore" character and Shirley Bassey's famous rendition of the title song playing the airwaves, it was Eaton's gilded visuals that became THE iconic image of not only the movie but the whole "007" phenomena.
In its wake, Hollywood beckoned and Shirley immediately won a number of female leads in melodrama, crime yarns, war stories and rugged adventures. Adding to the mesmerizing Ivan Tors scenery in such movies as Rhino! (1964) and the underwater epic, Around the World Under the Sea (1966), she appeared opposite some of Hollywood best-looking and talented leading men, including Harry Guardino and Robert Culp of the afore-mentioned Rhino! (1964), and Hugh O'Brian in the classic whodunnit, Ten Little Indians (1965). During this highly productive time, her co-stars ranged from comedy legend Bob Hope in Eight on the Lam (1967) to horror icon Christopher Lee in The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968). Shirley's film career ended with her participation as "Sumuru", the ambitious leader of an all-woman's society called "Femina", in both The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967) and Mothers of America (1969). Many of her movies remain interesting to the public today as they are a product reflective of their times, and a number of them, like she, have achieved cult status.
After Shirley's self-imposed retirement, she, first and foremost, dedicated herself to her family. The widow of building contractor Colin Rowe (they were married in 1957; he died in 1994), she has two sons, Grant and Jason, and is the proud grandmother of five. She also developed a special knack for writing and, in 1999, published her autobiography entitled "Golden Girl". In 2006, she marketed an "intimate diary" of poems. These days, the spectacular Shirley can be glimpsed from time to time at film festivals that very much appreciate her cult celebrity. She also enjoys painting and has made a return to the stage in recent years.One of the best looking actresses in British Film Industry, Shirley was playing Jill Masterson, Auric Goldfinger's Binocular Spy when he was cheating at cards, Bond finds her and seduces her within seconds, although not a true baddie, she dies soon after anyway, in the most famous screen death, covered in gold paint, I did not include her because of that, but because Bond shagged her. Shirley was easily the most beautiful girl in the film and in all the early Bond films. She also did a few Carry-On's but before this film rather than after like in Margaret Nolan's case. Born in England, she started acting in British TV in 1950 and had a good career before retiring from it in 1968, although she did a small role in 2001. She still lives in England, now aged 84 and still very pretty.- Actress
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One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which she paid for by working as a clerical assistant in the Civil Service. She was also a dispatch rider for the Home Office during World War II, playing an important role in the war effort.
Blackman received her first acting work on stage in London's West End as an understudy in "The Guinea Pig". She continued with roles in "The Gleam" (1946) and "The Blind Goddess" (1947), before moving into film. She debuted with Fame Is the Spur (1947), starring Michael Redgrave.
Blackman suffered a nervous breakdown following her divorce from Bill Sankey, a man 12 years her senior, who's jealousy, fraudulent business practices, and emptying of her bank accounts took it's toll. After hospitalisation Blackman began counselling, which would last for years, and began rebuilding her career.
TV series work also came her way again, most notably the highly popular The Avengers (1961), co-starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed. As the leather-clad "Catherine Gale", Blackman showcased her incredible beauty, self-confidence, and athletic abilities. Her admirable qualities made her not only a catch for the men, but also an inspirational figure for the 1960s feminist movement.
Blackman took on the role of Greek goddess Hera in popular movie adventure Jason and the Argonauts (1963) with Ray Harryhausen and melodrama Life at the Top (1965) with Laurence Harvey. She then played "Pussy Galore" in the classic James Bond film Goldfinger (1964). Blackman went toe to toe with Sean Connery's womanizing "007" and created major sparks on screen.
Blackman continued to work consistently in films and tv, while also appearing on stage where she earned rave reviews as the blind heroine of the thriller "Wait Until Dark" as well as for her dual roles in "Mr. and Mrs.", a production based on two of Noël Coward's plays. She also enjoyed working with her second husband, actor Maurice Kaufmann, in the play "Move Over, Mrs. Markham" and the film thriller Fright (1971). She proved a sultry-voiced sensation in various musicals productions such as "A Little Night Music", "The Sound of Music", "On Your Toes", and "Nunsense."
In the new millennium, Honor was seen in such films as Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Color Me Kubrick (2005), Reuniting the Rubins (2010), I, Anna (2012) and Cockneys vs Zombies (2012), as well as the British TV serieses Water, Water, Everywhere (1920) The Royal (2003) Coronation Street (1960), long running series Casualty (1986) and finally You, Me & Them (2013), her last role after her retirement several years earlier.
Divorced from Kaufmann in 1975 (although they remained friends until his death, Blackman even cared for him during his 13 year battle with cancer), Blackman never remarried, revealing in an interview that she simply preferred single life, "Basically I'm a shy person and I like my own company". Unable to conceive, the couple adopted two children, Lottie and Barnaby, in '67 and '68 respectively.
The ever-lovely and eternally glamorous star continued to find regular work into her 90s, including co-starring in the long-running English hit comedy series The Upper Hand (1990) and performing her one-woman stage show, "Wayward Women"
Honor Blackman died on April 5, 2020, in Lewes, Sussex. She was 94.The main Bond Girl in 'Goldfinger' (1964), she played Pussy Galore, one of the baddies, as a Pilot, spraying poison, Bond nailed her quite quickly, and turned her so she helped the good guys, usually a baddie dies in the film but she didn't, I never considered her to be beautiful, she had a kind of an odd angular face. However she had style, sexuality and was a great actor and had a stellar career starting in 1947, her last role was in 2015, so 68 years an actor. She was born in London in 1925 and lived most of her life in England. Unfortunately just after I started this list (2020), I heard on the News that she had passed away in Sussex, England aged 94. She will be sadly missed.
Honor was the oldest to play a Bond Girl in the usual franchise at 39 Years and 28 days at release, Valerie Leon was about 1 year older than her in 'Never Say Never Again' (1983) but that was not in the official franchise (in 2015 Monica Belucci eclipsed both of them). She has also lived the longest (to date).- Molly Peters was a gorgeous and voluptuous British blonde bombshell actress and model who alas only appeared in a handful of films and TV shows during her regrettably fleeting acting career in the mid 60s. Molly was born in 1942 in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. Peters started out as a model; among the men's magazines she graced the covers of and/or posed in pictorials for are "Playboy," "Modern Man," "Calvalcade," "Beau," "Ace," "Parade," "Best for Men," "Dapper," and "Escapade." Molly achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her memorably sensuous portrayal of Patricia Fearing, the fetching masseuse who gets seduced by James Bond at the Shrubland health club in "Thunderball." She was discovered by director Terence Young and has the distinction of being the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen. In the wake of her 007 stint Peters acted in two more movies and popped up on episodes of the TV shows "Armchair Theatre" and "Baker's Half-Dozen." Molly Peters had her acting career abruptly cut short after reportedly having a falling out with her agent.Molly was the first Bond shagged in 'Thunderball' (1965), she played Patricia one of the nurses in the clinic Bond was recuperating in, he had her in the shower and again in her room, and who can blame him she was very sexy. Molly was English, born in Suffolk, she was a model for nude magazines and only had a short career in film, sadly she passed away in 2017, aged 75.
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Luciana Paluzzi's an Italian actress, best known for playing SPECTRE assassin ,Fiona Volpe, in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball.
In the film, Thunderball she had auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta "Domino" Petacchi, but producers cast Claudine Auger, changing the Domino character from an Italian to a Frenchwoman and renaming her Dominique Derval.
Paluzzi's first film was an uncredited walk-on part in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).Luciana played a baddie in 'Thunderball' (1965), Fiona Volpe, who seduced Bond (she did not have to try too hard) in a way to set him up for being killed, and almost did it, but Bond got away and she got killed instead, she was the most beautiful in the film. She was born in Italy but later moved to California, she had a long acting career starting in 1953, she retired in 1978 and still lives happily in California now aged 84, and still looks fantastic.- Actress
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Claudine Auger, a former Miss France 1st Runner-up (1958), received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette "Domino" opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965), She has kept fairly busy since her Bond days, acting in a number of Italian, French and Spanish films including The Bermuda Triangle (1978), Credo (1983), and La bocca (1991).She was the main Bond Girl in 'Thunderball' (1965) and quite beautiful, although her dialogue was dubbed, a French woman she also had a long acting career, from 1957-1997, unfortunately she passed away in 2019, in Paris aged 78.- Actress
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Tsai Chin, pinyin Zhou Caiqin is an actor, director, teacher and author, best known in America for her film role as Auntie Lindo in The Joy Luck Club. The third daughter of Zhou Xinfang, China's great actor in the last century, she was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London (first Chinese student) and later earned a Master Degree at Tufts University, Boston. Her career spans more than five decades working in UK, USA and recently in China. She starred on stage on both sides of the atlantic, (a first for a Chinese actor) in London's West End,The World of Susie Wong and on Broadway, Golden Child; played the two most powerful women of 20th century China; for television, in The Subject of Struggle; for stage Memories of Madame Mao; was twice in Bond films, as Bond girl in You Only Live Twice, and later in Casino Royale. Her single The Ding Dong Song recorded for Decca was top of the charts in Asia. She was the first to be invited to teach acting in China after the Cultural Revolution when universities re-opened. She is now celebrated in China for her portrayal of Jia Mu in the recent TV drama series, The Dream of The Red Chamber. Her international best-selling autobiography, Daughter of Shanghai is to be a stage play by David Henry Hwang which will be produced by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Perfoming Arts in Beverly Hills.She played a Hong Kong woman who had just been shagged by Bond in the intro to 'You Only Live Twice' (1967), when she let baddies in to kill him, she got away, but it was a set up anyway, so Bond could pretend to be dead. She also had another appearance in a Bond film, almost 40 years later! She had a small role in 'Casino Royale' (2006) in two casino scenes. Tsai was born in Shanghai, but lived in England mostly and still does so, she has had a long career, in China, England and Hollywood starting in 1957 and has yet to stop, going strong at 88 years old.
Technically the second appearance makes her the oldest Bond Girl by a very wide margin, as she was 73 when she did Casino Royale, although no sex with Bond in that. If she lives until 2028 she will become the oldest Bond Girl.- Akiko Wakabayashi was born on August 26, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan. During her work in movies, she became one of Japan's most popular actresses of their cinema's "Golden Age", ranking with actresses Kumi Mizuno and Mie Hama. One of her first films was Akiko (1961), which was named after her. Interestingly, the movie title shares both her real and character names. Her career took off when she came to Toho Studios, appearing in a host of sci-fi films, including that of the sexy gangster moll in Dogora (1964) and the bewitching alien-possessed princess in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964). However, in the Western Cinema, she is probably best-known for her role as Bond girl "Aki" in the 007 epic, You Only Live Twice (1967), appearing alongside actor Sean Connery. When production of the 007 film began, Wakabayashi was originally chosen to play Bond girl "Kissy Suzuki" and her co-star, Mie Hama, is to play Bond girl "Suki". As Hama had a difficult time mastering the English language, the two actresses switched roles. In addition, Wakabayashi suggested her character name be Aki instead of Suki.
In the late 1960s to early 1970s, Japan's movie industry experienced an economic slump, which resulted in severe budget cuts. During that time, Wakabayashi made a rather abrupt end to her acting career, and has never been seen on the big screen since. Whether or not the economic slump played a factor, Wakabayashi remains one of the most memorable actresses of Japan, especially to Toho Studios' sci-fi fandom.Stunning Japanese actress as Aki, she was working for the Japanese Secret Service in 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) and lured Bond into a trap, but soon hooked up with him in more ways than one, she was one of two main Bond girls and the most beautiful and gets my vote for the most beautiful of all the Bond films to date, shes was a goodie but still got killed whilst on the mission with Bond. She had a middling career in Japan starting in 1958, this was her only western film and last one altogether, she retired from acting in 1971, she still lives in Japan happily married since having had 6 children, now aged 80. - Actress
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Born Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, Karin Dor studied acting and ballet at school and began in films as an extra. The attractive redhead made an indelible impression on Austrian director Harald Reinl (who became her first husband in 1954) and this paved the way to higher profile roles. Her first significant featured appearance was in Reinl's melodrama Der schweigende Engel (1954). Karin subsequently shared top billing in a classroom drama about wayward matriculation students, Ihre große Prüfung (1954). During the initial segment of her career she played nice girls, mainly wide-eyed ingénues, innocent victims and assorted naive juveniles in war and period dramas (As Long as You Live (1955)), Heimatfilms (Almenrausch und Edelweiß (1957)) and operettas (The White Horse Inn (1960)).
By 1960, a more glamorous, lithe and sensual Karin had graduated to juicer roles as heroines in Edgar Wallace potboilers (beginning with Der grüne Bogenschütze (1961)) and a series of Karl May European westerns, invariably directed by Reinl and co-starring Tarzan actor Lex Barker (a combination which proved equally successful for other crime/sci-fi franchises, including The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)). Many of these pictures enjoyed only limited release and were rarely exhibited outside Germany.
Karin succeeded at last to break her stereotyping by playing a pathological serial killer wielding a cutthroat razor in another Wallace/Reinl outing, Room 13 (1964), and - for a total change of pace -- essayed Brunhilde in a two-part filming of the epic 'Die Nibelungen' (also directed by Reinl). With her international appeal now widening, she appeared in The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), a British-West German co-production, as a scientist's daughter menaced by the titular villain. To follow was arguably her best-known international role as an early 'Bond girl', Helga Brandt (alias Number Eleven), a SPECTRE operative whose failure to eliminate J.B. results in her being dropped into a piranha-infested pool by super villain Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) in You Only Live Twice (1967). She was then engaged by Alfred Hitchcock for the part of Cuban resistance leader Juanita de Cordoba in Topaz (1969) in which her character came to a similarly sticky end. Karin's career never quite recovered from this director's rare box-office aberration. British Times reviewer and Hitchcock specialist John Russell Taylor described the picture as "generally flat, undistinguished, and lacking in any sign of positive interest or involvement on his (Hitchcock's) part". In the wake of Topaz, Karin's screen appearances became infrequent, except for a couple of guest spots on American crime shows, followed by an of unsuccessful feature film comeback attempt in the incongruous thriller Warhead (1977). She was latterly seen on German television in several episodes of Rosamunde Pilcher (1993). Karin's third husband was actor and stuntman George Robotham who predeceased her in 2007.Played Miss Brandt in 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) for SPECTRE, she got together with Bond in an attempt to set him up, he in turn was trying to turn her, it didn't work, she left him in a plane about to crash. but he got away and it was her that was killed later, she was a very good looking woman and normally would be the best in the film if it not for Aki and Mie Hama. A German actor who did most of her work in Germany, she had a long career working up to her death in 2017 aged 79.- Mie Hama was born in Tokyo, Japan on November 20, 1943 in a blue-collar Tokyo family whose small cardboard factory burned down in World War II. She grew up poor. She first started out working as a bus fare collector. While working, she was spotted by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka when she was only sixteen years old, and was soon employed at Toho Studios. She appeared in a bevy of drama and sci-fi films, including King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963), where she became the Giant Ape's "Damsel in Distress." She is probably best known in Western Cinema as Bond girl Kissy Suzuki, starring alongside actor Sean Connery in the 007 film You Only Live Twice (1967). That same year, King Kong Escapes (1967) was released, thus, she portrayed the spellbinding "Bond-girlish" villainess Madamn Piranha. Her extended wardrobe and enchanted bed chambers contributed to the film's "James Bond-ish" atmosphere. In addition, Hama would sometimes be referred to as "Funny Face," due to her appearances in Japan's "Crazy Cats" movies.
She became one of the most popular actresses in Japan's "Golden Age" of Cinema, but has done little acting when Japan's cinema world experienced severe financial problems. However, she did return to appear in a few films in the 1970s and 1980s, and she is seen, most recently, working as an active environmentalist, radio and television talk show host. She also married a television executive with whom she has four children.Another noted Japanese actor, and one of my favourites, this is also her only western film, one of two main Bond Girls with Aki in 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) she was the girl chosen to marry Bond in order for him to infiltrate the SPECTRE base on her island, Bond got disguised (not by much-he still looked like a Jock) to look Japanese, Bond was told the choice of brides for him were all ugly but he was made up when he saw Mie, who played Kissy Suzuki (not named in the film) who was stunning in her wedding dress. They got married but she refused his advances, however he nailed her at the end.
And about that marriage, Bond is supposed to have only been married once, not true, he got married in this to Kissy, although it is supposed to be fake the wedding ceremony was performed correctly, so technically he was married before the other one to Tracy in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', and since there is no record or scene shown that the marriage was annulled (he did have a fake name and documents), he would still have been married when he got married (again) to Tracy in OHMSS, so committing Bigamy!
Mie Hama had a similar career and life to Aki, retiring from acting in 1975 and settling down, she was married for 49 years until her husband passed away, she has 4 children and she is still going strong at 77 years old. - Actress
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British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in the Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of "Abelard & Heloise". Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlene Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989), and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the adaptation of Rebecca (1997). In 2013, she appeared with her daughter Rachael Stirling on the BBC series Doctor Who (2005) in an episode titled "The Crimson Horror" and plays Olenna Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011).
From 1965 to 1968, Rigg appeared on the British television series The Avengers (1961) playing the secret agent Mrs. Emma Peel. She became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife, opposite George Lazenby. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the 1988 Queen's New Years Honours for her services to drama. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) at the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama.
Dame Diana Rigg died of lung cancer on September 10, 2020, she was 82 years old.She played Tracy (or Theresa - a split personality thing) in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969), the only one who Bond loved, but not the only one he married, he could have been committing Bigamy when he married her! (see last entry), although not for long.
Bond met her in the intro and then a bit later, they quickly got down to business, her Dad tried to palm her off to Bond in an arranged marriage, but Bond went off to do his espionage stuff (long distance relationships eh!), she found him later and rescued him from a sticky situation and then it was all back on again. After a bit of action, which she was involved in, they married, but not because it was arranged, but as he loved her (debatable), he still got a good payoff though.
But its a Bond movie, she had to die which she did at the end, shot by a SPECTRE hench-woman. It would never have worked anyway, apart from it possibly being a bigamous marriage, she was one of the most nutty Bond Girl in the history of Bond films, more so than the hench women! Also as we all know long separations in a marriage don't work. Diana Rigg (English) was a classic British actor, she had a stellar career in Film and TV, but unfortunately passed away in 2020 aged 82, not long after I made this entry.- Angela Scoular was born on 8 November 1945 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Casino Royale (1967) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988). She was married to Leslie Phillips. She died on 11 April 2011 in Maida Vale, London, England, UK.Played Ruby Bartlett (not Barrett as some people seem to think) in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969), she was one of the 12 models in the clinical institute for allergies run by Blofeld, she was most forward, and famously wrote her room number on the inside of Bond's thigh under the table at dinner, her character was supposed to be from Morecambe Bay, England, but the actor was from London and had a dodgy northern accent (I am from Morecambe Bay, and nobody in that area says that, they just say the town they are from), she was not the best looking Bond girl, but Bond had her anyway, he tried again but was ambushed. You may not have heard of Angela, but she did have a long career, she was also in the original 'Casino Royale' (1967), the spoof Bond film. She started in 1953, doing mostly British TV work, and in some of the most popular series, she seemed to keep under the radar of most?, she married the more famous actor Leslie Phillips in 1982 (star of many British sex comedies) and retired in 1996, but she had problems, and committed suicide in 2011 aged 65.
- Born in Budapest, Hungary, her true name is Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott, the scion of a once wealthy German patrician family. Her father, the Baron Paul Schell von Bauschlott, was a well-respected diplomat until the Nazis confiscated their estates during WWII, while her mother was Countess Katharina Maria Etelka Georgina Elisabeth Teleki de Szék. Her family was living in poverty until 1948 when they sought asylum in Vienna and Salzburg as the communist regime began to take hold in Hungary. In 1950, her family emigrated to the States and Baron von Schell Bauschlott renounced his title in order for his family to gain citizenship. Catherine entered a convent school in New York's Staten Island area. In 1957, her father joined Radio Free Europe, taking the family to Munich where she developed an interest for acting and trained at the prestigious Falconberg School. Her inauspicious debut (sometimes billed as Catherine von Schell) was in the German film Lana, Queen of the Amazons (1964). While filming Amsterdam Affair (1968), she met and married actor William Marlowe, subsequently moving to London. She went on to appear in Moon Zero Two (1969), the James Bond feature On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Callan (1974) and The Black Windmill (1974), but is best known at that time for the slapstick comedy The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), which marked Peter Sellers' cinematic revisiting of his "Inspector Clouseau" character. Extremely visible on TV with frequent work in such series as The Persuaders! (1971), The Adventurer (1972) and the cult sci-fi series Space: 1999 (1975) starring Barbara Bain and Martin Landau playing the role of "Maya", an alien, for which she is best known. Her marriage to actor Marlowe had run its course by 1977, and she met director Bill Hays that same year, who had two children from a previous marriage. They married in 1982, together working on a TV production of A Month in the Country (1985). Her career began to wane by the time she did the series Wish Me Luck (1987) and she retired shortly thereafter, running a small guest hotel in France. Catherine is often mistakenly thought of as a sister of actors Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Immy Schell and Carl Schell, but she is not. One of her two brothers, Paul von Schell, is, however, the widower of actress Hildegard Knef.She played Nancy another one of the 12 models in Blofelds institute in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969), and definitely the most beautiful in the film, Bond also slipped into her room to shag her, and who can blame him. Catherine was born an Hungarian (not German as most seem to think, but of mostly German descent and partly German Royalty), but she moved to USA with her family aged 4 (via Austria) because the Nazi's had taken all their wealth and property. She had a long career, starting in 1964, she did not retire until 1996 (however she still does a bit now and then), mostly British TV, she was a star of the famous sci-fi series 'Space 1999', she is still going strong, living in France now, at the age of 75 and has just appeared in a Dracula TV series, still looking gorgeous. For me she was one of the most beautiful Bond Girls ever, despite her brief appearance. They missed a trick by not giving her more screen time or in another film!
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An incredible piece of 1960s eye candy, Jill St. John absolutely smoldered on the big screen, a trendy presence in lightweight comedy, spirited adventure and spy intrigue who appeared alongside some of Hollywood's most handsome male specimens. Although she was seldom called upon to do much more than frolic in the sun and playfully taunt and tempt as needed, this tangerine-topped stunner managed to do her job very, very well. A remarkably bright woman in real life, she was smart enough to play the Hollywood game to her advantage and did so for nearly two decades before looking elsewhere for fun and contentment.
Jill St. John was actually born Jill Oppenheim in 1940 in Los Angeles. On stage and radio from age five, she was pretty much prodded by a typical stage mother. Making her TV debut in The Christmas Carol (1949), Jill began blossoming and attracting the right kind of attention in her late teens. She signed with Universal Pictures at age 16 and made her film debut as a perky support in Summer Love (1958) starring then-hot John Saxon. Moving ahead, she filled the bill as a slightly dingy love interest in such innocuous fun as The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959), Holiday for Lovers (1959), Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963), Who's Minding the Store? (1963) and Honeymoon Hotel (1964).
Whether the extremely photogenic Jill had talent (and she did!) or not never seemed to be a fundamental issue with casting agents. By the late '60s she had matured into a classy, ravishing redhead who not only came equipped with a knockout figure but some sly, suggestive one-liners as well that had her male co-stars (and audiences) more than interested. She skillfully traded sexy quips with Anthony Franciosa in the engaging TV pilot to the hit series The Name of the Game (1968) and scored a major coup as the ever-tantalizing Tiffany Case, a ripe and ready Bond girl, in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) opposite Sean Connery's popular "007" character. She also co-starred with Bob Hope in the dismal Eight on the Lam (1967), but the connection allowed her to be included in a number of the comedian's NBC specials over the years. A part of Frank Sinatra's "in" crowd, she worked with him on both Come Blow Your Horn (1963) and Tony Rome (1967).
On camera, Jill's glossy femme fatales had a delightfully brazen, tongue-in-cheek quality to them. Off-camera, she lived the life of a jet-setter and was known for her romantic excursions with such eligibles as Jack Nicholson, David Frost, Joe Namath, Bill Hudson, Roman Polanski and even Henry Kissinger. Of her four marriages, which included laundry heir Neil Dubin, the late sports car racer Lance Reventlow, son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, and easy-listening crooner Jack Jones, she seems to have found her soulmate in present husband Robert Wagner, whom she married in 1990 after an eight-year courtship. Jill first met Wagner when they were both just beginning their careers as contract players at 20th Century Fox. The couple share credits on several productions, notably Banning (1967) as well as the top-tier TV movies How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967) and Around the World in 80 Days (1989).
Abandoning acting out of boredom, she has returned only on rare occasions. She played against type as a crazed warden in the prison drama The Concrete Jungle (1982) and has had some fun cameos alongside Wagner both on film (The Player (1992)) and even TV (Seinfeld (1989)). In the late 1990s they started touring together in A.R. Gurney's popular two-person stage reading of "Love Letters." Jill's lifelong passion for cooking (her parents were restaurateurs) has turned profitable over the years. She has written a cookbook and appeared as a TV chef and "in-house" cooking expert on Good Morning America (1975). She also served as a food columnist for the USA Weekend newspaper. On the philanthropic front, she is founder of the Aunts Club, a Rancho Mirage-based group of special women who contribute at least $1,000 per year to provide financial support for a child.
She was glimpsed more recently in the films The Calling (2002) and The Trip (2002) and she and Wagner had small roles as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the TV movie Northpole (2014). The Wagners make their home in Aspen.Who played Tiffany Case, the only woman Bond actually shagged in 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971), so a low point for Bond, she played a feisty character, who Bond soon bedded (Connery had her in real life), but did not die and stayed in the film almost throughout, somewhat of a first for 007. Jill is an American, and was a child actress, she had a wonderful career, retiring in 2014, she married the famous actor Robert Wagner and still lives happily with him in the USA now aged 80. She had a stunning body and was the most beautiful in the film.- Shapely, dark haired British actress who appeared in a number of sensual film and TV roles that showcased her beauty. She is probably best recognizable as Miss Caruso, the beautiful young Italian agent sleeping with James Bond in the opening of Live and Let Die (1973) whose blue dress zipper meets its match in Bond's magnetic watch. Prior to this, she had worked with Roger Moore in an early TV appearance and he recommended her for the role.Madeline played Miss Caruso, the Italian Secret Service Agent that had gone missing, she was shacked up with Bond in the intro of 'Live and Let Die' (1973) and had to hide in the wardrobe when M arrived, her famous scene was when Bond lowered her dress zip with his magnet watch, she was very pretty, maybe the best in the film. However Madeline was not Italian she was English and dubbed, but she looked the part. She still acts, mostly in English TV, and looking good despite being 72 years old.
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Born in Florida and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Gloria's first job was as an assistant to the legal secretary in the New York office of the NAACP. She also became a model around this time and worked at the Playboy Club as a "Bunny." This exposure led to her being cast in her first movie, For Love of Ivy (1968). In the 1970s, she became a popular star of black actioners such as Black Caesar (1973) and Black Belt Jones (1974). She has completed her first CD and also produced The Paul Robeson Story.Famous for the biggest (fake) afro in Bond history, she played Rosie in 'Live and Let Die' (1973) an assistant to Bond who turned out to be a baddie, not long after he shagged her she was killed. She was not the best looking but had a great body, Gloria is from the USA, born in Florida and still acts today, she has just turned 72 as well.- Actress
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Jane Seymour was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in 1951 in Middlesex, England, to a nurse mother and gynaecologist/obstetrician father. She is of Polish Jewish (father) and Dutch (mother) descent. She adopted the acting name of "Jane Seymour" when she entered show business as it was easier for people to remember (and the name of one of King Henry VIII's wives). She attracted the attention of the James Bond film producers when they saw her on British television. She was cast as the main Bond girl, "Solitaire", in Live and Let Die (1973). The role gained her international recognition but she was in danger of losing it all like the previous Bond girls, so she came to the U.S.
A casting director advised her to lose her English accent and acquire an American accent to land roles on American television. She did and started getting roles, earning five Emmy nominations, resulting in one win for Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988) for playing Maria Callas. She won Golden Globe awards for both East of Eden (1981) and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), where she played the title role for 5 years. She occasionally appeared in feature films, memorably in Somewhere in Time (1980) and in Wedding Crashers (2005).
Married and divorced four times, she gave birth to four children and is a stepmother to two. They have children of their own, making her a grandmother. As of 2018, she has been acting in television movies and making guest-appearances.One of the beauties of British TV and Movies, she was the main Bond Girl in 'Live and Let Die' (1973), Bond tricked her into sex with him by cheating with the Tarot cards, then got her to abandon helping Kananga. She went off with him at the end on the train, it would of been nice if they had got married, the screenplay was heading that way and they looked good together despite Moore looking like her father, but if they did she would have to be killed off, so maybe not in retrospect. Jane was born in England but of Dutch/Polish heritage, and is a prolific actor, mostly in American TV and still looking great and going strong today aged 70. She was one of the younger Bond Girls, aged 22 at release.- Actress
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Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a hotel, he fell hard for her and they soon married. The combination of Sellers' stardom and her stunning beauty contributed to her fame (the fact that Sellers suffered a heart attack in bed on their wedding night did not hurt, either). She appeared in two films with her husband: After the Fox (1966), written by Neil Simon, and the forgettable The Bobo (1967). Her claim to fame would come as the young girl who invented the striptease in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968). After that, she appeared in a string of movies that were built around her looks and not much else. She did appear in some first-rate productions over the years, though, two of them being Get Carter (1971) and the cult classic The Wicker Man (1973). The high point in her career would be her role as Bond girl Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). After her much publicized breakup with rocker Rod Stewart in 1977, Britt continued to make movies--both features and made-for-TV films--and tried the stage. By that time, the quality of her film projects had decreased markedly, and she was reduced to appearing in things like Fraternity Vacation (1985) and Beverly Hills Vamp (1989).Goodnight was her character in 'The Man With The Golden Gun' (1974), she turned up as an assistant to Bond in Hong Kong, then in Thailand, apparently he had already had her, but just to prove it he shagged her at the end. Britt would normally be the most beautiful in any film, but in this she was up against fellow Swede Maud Adams who looked stunning, but Britt had the better body. Britt was already a star, and famous for several high profile failed relationships, she continued working for may years, now in semi-retirement and living back in her native Sweden now aged 78 and still beautiful.- Actress
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Stunning Swedish born ex-model who broke into film in 1970, and quickly appeared in several high profile films including playing the ex-wife of James Caan in the futuristic Rollerball (1975) and the ill-fated lover of super-assassin Francisco Scaramanga played by Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). To date, the beautiful Maud Adams has appeared in three James Bond films... the other two performances were as one of the lead villains in Octopussy (1983) and as an extra in A View to a Kill (1985). She has appeared in numerous television specials on the Bond series of films, and also played the love interest of crazy Bruce Dern in Tattoo (1981). In the late 1990s, Adams had a regular role on a Swedish soap opera; however, she has not been seen on cinema screens since late 1996.Played Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's go-fer and sex puppet in 'The Man With The Golden Gun' (1974), so on the side of the baddies, Bond is ruthless with her and practically rapes her in his attempt to blackmail her into helping him, after he shags her she is killed by Scaramanga. Maud is stunning in this role, she was also returned in a different character in 'Octopussy' (1981) and as an accidental extra in 'A View To A Kill' (1985) but no sex in that one, if she had she would have been older than Honor Blackman at 40 years, 3 months and 29 days, and a little older than Valerie Leon in 'Never Say Never Again' (1983), but it was not even a supporting role. She was fairly prolific on film and was also a successful model, she is now semi-retired but still does a bit now and then, and going strong at 76.- Sue Vanner is known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Nighthawks (1981) and Play for Today (1970). She has been married to Warren Todd since 1987. They have one child.Sue was the Log Cabin girl that Bond shagged in the intro of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977), and well gorgeous she is. I don't know much about Sue, an English girl who had a short acting career, mostly in British TV her last acting role was in 1985. She still lives in England now aged 70.
- British model and actress from the 70s. Cover girl in several vinyls-LP from the 70s of different bands.
Dawn made brief appearances in "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), one of four Arab beauties who offer 007 desert hospitality when the 'Liparus' trail leads him to the Pyramids and the Nile in Egypt, "Undercover Lover" (1979) and the TV Series "Hazell"(1978).Another actress I know even less about, Dawn played an Arab beauty who was offered to Bond for the night in a Sheik's tent, in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977), he gratefully accepted, who could blame him she was stunning and the most beautiful in the film, Dawn had an even shorter career, only featuring in 4 productions in the 1970's.
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Barbara Goldbach was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for business tourism in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him and they married in 1968. They had two children, Francesca Gregorini and Gianni Gregorini. During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition.
In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California. The couple separated in 1978, sharing custody of their two children. Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of the comedy Caveman (1981), and they became a couple during the filming. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot. Ringo and Barbara went to New York City to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981.
Her acting career began in Italy, where she played Nausicaa in Odissea (1968), a television adaptation of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", directed by Franco Rossi and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. Bach co-starred with two other "Bond Girls", Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) and had small roles in other Italian films. In 1977, she played Russian secret agent Anya Amasova in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). The following year, she appeared in the war film Force 10 from Navarone (1978), which also starred Robert Shaw and Harrison Ford.Played Major Amasova "Agent Triple X" in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977), she was the main bond girl, she was a KGB agent sent to investigate and hooked up with Bond on the mission, when she found out he had killed her partner, she intended to assassinate Bond after their mission was over, but Bond eventually won her round and shagged her at the end. Barbara had a nice body and great cleavage but was not that good looking, she had a kind of scowl most of the time, she was playing a Russian, so in that case her acting was ok, her crunching the gears in the van scene wasn't acting though, as she couldn't drive for real. Barbara who hails from the USA, has had a short but intensive career, she retired in 1986 to concentrate on family life with her husband, former Beatle - Ringo Starr.- Leila Chenna, is a Moroccan actress and cousin to Malika Oufkir, the writer of "Stolen Lifes: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail," an account of the failed 1972 assasination attempt on the King of Morocco by her father (and Lelia's uncle), General Muhammad Oufkir.Leila is another actor with I have little info about, she played an Air Hostess on a private jet that Bond was seducing in the intro of 'Moonraker' (1979), but she was a baddie and got the jump on Bond, and then she and the pilot parachuted out leaving Bond to his fate. Leila is Moroccan and had a short career ending just after this in 1982, very good looking but not the most beautiful.
- Corinne Cléry was born on 23 March 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), The Story of O (1975) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).She played Corinne Dufour one of Drax's assistants in 'Moonraker (1979)' Bond seduced her whilst in the process of sneaking around Drax's Chateau at night, she was very willing, and quite pretty, Drax found out and had the Doberman's set on her, this was one of the most dramatic death's in Bond history. Corinne is a French actor who is quite prolific, mostly in Italian sex films, she is still acting, now aged 71.
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Lois Chiles is a former supermodel-turned-actress who gave elegant performances in a variety of films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Her motion picture debut role was as Robert Redford's sexual endeavor in the old-fashioned Hollywood melodrama, The Way We Were (1973). Shortly after, she starred opposite Clifton Davis in the indie blaxploitation film, Together for Days (1972); they portrayed a mixed-race couple enduring societal disapproval and political pandemonium. She also appeared as the irreverent socialite Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby (1974), in which she starred alongside Mia Farrow and, again, Robert Redford.
Chiles delivered a series of pivotal characters particularly as a woman who mysteriously falls into a state of unconsciousness after entering the hospital for an early term abortion in Coma (1978), and as an impudent heiress and murder victim in the center of Death on the Nile (1978).
Chiles' most recognized role is the sophisticated NASA astronaut, scientist, and "Bond girl", Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in Moonraker (1979). It is worth noting that Goodhead was different than any previous "Bond girl", in that she was dignified and not so much sexualized. Sadly, that same year, just as Chiles' career was at its height, she lost her youngest brother to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma which resulted in her three-year hiatus from acting. Her career never fully recovered and she struggled to find roles that necessitated her individuality but she persevered and received positive reviews for her continued performances in film and television, particularly in Sweet Liberty (1986), Broadcast News (1987), Creepshow 2 (1987), Diary of a Hitman (1991) and Curdled (1996).
In recent years, she's appeared in a few television sitcoms, participated in interviews recalling her experience as a "Bond girl", and taught an acting class at the University of Houston.Played Dr. Holly Goodhead in 'Moonraker' (1979) who was posing as a scientist but was working for the CIA, who then joined forces with Bond to infiltrate Drax, she came in handy as she could pilot Space Shuttles, she was the main Bond girl, it did not take Bond long to shagging her and again at the end, in a Space Shuttle. Lois was put forward to do a Bond girl previously but it didn't happen, this time she got the job. Lois has had a good acting and modelling career, bit it has been a bit erratic due to family tragedies, she eventually retired in 2006 and lives happily as an artist with her husband in New York now aged 74 and still looks gorgeous.- She was the Brazilian assistant (Manuela) to Bond in 'Moonraker' (1979) when he arrived in Rio, just in time for the festival, she almost got killed by Jaws, but got lucky when festival goers intervened, Bond shagged her when he had a bit of time to kill at the hotel, she was definitely the most beautiful in the film. Emily is from Aruba of Dutch and English heritage, she had a middling acting career lately in British TV which she retired from in 1992. Now working behind the scenes as an agent in England, she is 69 years old.
- Cassandra Harris was born on 15 December 1942 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), Remington Steele (1982) and Rough Cut (1980). She was married to Pierce Brosnan, Dermot Harris and William Firth. She died on 28 December 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Cassandra played Countess Lisl in 'For Your Eyes Only' (1981) but that was a scam, her character was really a Scouser from Liverpool who faked her way into High society, Bond met her in the casino and shagged her a bit later, she looked a bit older than the usual bimbo's Bond shags (she was one of Bond's older shags at 38), but since Roger Moore was looking a bit older himself it sort of fitted well, however she was still 15 years younger than Roger. Cassandra was an Australian actor who had a fairly short career, from 1977-1986, she had moved to America, and when she made this film with Roger Moore as Bond she was actually married to a future Bond - Pierce Brosnan, unfortunately she passed away, from Cancer, at the young age of 49 in 1991, she had introduced Brosnan to the makers of Bond with hopes that he could play the character and obviously he did but not until after Cassandra had died.
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Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model. She is best known for played Bond girl Melina Havelock in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981).
She also starred in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Nemo (1984), The Bridge (1999) and Do Not Disturb (2014).
In 2017 she starred in the Mini-Series The Mantis.
In the 1980s and 1990s she was a model for Chanel.
That Obscure Object of Desire was her film debut.She played the main Bond girl in 'For Your Eyes Only' (1981) - Melina, she was the best looking woman in the film, but she seemed a bit distant to me, like she wanted to be somewhere else, which was helpful for the role anyway, in which her parents had just been killed. Carole is French and had a long career in Film and TV and is still going strong in French TV, she currently has several productions on the go, now aged 64 and still looks good. She said of Roger Moore that he was old enough to be her father in the film, he was, at 30 years older and he looked it as well, she was not keen on the role.
The character Bi Bi was better and more fun (listed in the later section), played by Lynn-Holly Johnson, but Moore said he would not do a sex scene with her when she jumped naked into his bed, because she was too young (so not a Bond Girl), however she was 22/23 at filming and only 1 year younger than Carole Bouquet, but he shagged Melina several times, so Moore was being a bit of an hypocrite, also as Bond he had shagged other women previously who were younger than Johnson, including Jane Seymour in Live and Let Die, who was 21 at the time of filming.- Tina Hudson is known for Octopussy (1983).Another Bond Girl I can't find much about, she played Bianca (not named in film) in 'Octopussy' (1983), in the intro, she was Bond's aide in the un-named South American Country (supposedly Argentina but filmed in England), the inclination was that he had already shagged her, she was stunning, a dusky hued beauty who was easily the best looking in the film. I don't even know what nationality she was, or her dob/age and 'Octopussy' was the only film she made, shame.
- Kristina Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Sweden. After being elected Miss Sweden in 1970 she was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant. The same year she was also elected Miss Scandinavia.
Wayborn portrayed screen legend Greta Garbo in The Silent Lovers (1980) which brought her to the attention of the producers of the James Bond films.
She was cast as Magda in the James Bond film Octopussy (1983). During a fight scene in the film, the act went wrong and Wayborn suffered several broken toes. Despite the accident, she became well known for her fight scenes in Octopussy, in an era predating the big female action heroines of the box office. Her character Magda beat up many of Kamal Khan's guards, showing a surprising agility and acumen for martial arts.
She subsequently appeared in a number of American television series such as The Love Boat (1982-1986), Airwolf (1986), MacGyver (1986), Dallas (1986), General Hospital (1987), Designing Women (1991), Baywatch (1993-1999) and That '70s Show (2000) in which she was re-united with her Octopussy co-star Maud Adams.
In the 1990's, Kristina appeared in the Swedish television series Vänner och Fiender (1996-2000), one of the longest running series ever in Sweden. (Another Swedish Bond girl, Mary Stavin, also appeared in the series.)
In 2010, she appeared in the horror film The Frankenstein Syndrome.Played Magda in 'Octopussy' (1983), one of Octopussy's leading girls, who was sort of a double agent, Bond stalked her before shagging her in an attempt to find out about things, she lived unlike most female double agents in Bond films, but she was not beautiful she looked a bit bog-eyed and when she talked her lips only moved on one side. Kristina was a Swedish Model and won Miss Sweden, I can't imagine how, the judges must have been pissed, she looked a bit odd, she has only had a little acting work, mostly in TV, her last film was in 2018, she has lived in the USA for many years, now aged 70.
There were many 'Octopussy' girls, but I am only including Magda and their boss Octopussy (Maud Adams) since Bond did not shag any of the others, only one other - Mary Stavin, featured in another Bond film, and she did become a Bond Girl then, see later entry. - Actress
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Stunning Swedish born ex-model who broke into film in 1970, and quickly appeared in several high profile films including playing the ex-wife of James Caan in the futuristic Rollerball (1975) and the ill-fated lover of super-assassin Francisco Scaramanga played by Christopher Lee in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). To date, the beautiful Maud Adams has appeared in three James Bond films... the other two performances were as one of the lead villains in Octopussy (1983) and as an extra in A View to a Kill (1985). She has appeared in numerous television specials on the Bond series of films, and also played the love interest of crazy Bruce Dern in Tattoo (1981). In the late 1990s, Adams had a regular role on a Swedish soap opera; however, she has not been seen on cinema screens since late 1996.Octopussy (1983) is the 2nd Bond film she has been in, also as a Bond girl, but with a different character, so a second entry, the only one to have 2 entries, there are a few he has either shagged in more than one film, but as the same character, or that have been in one or more films but he only shagged in one, she played the title role 'Octopussy', not looking as good as she did in 'The Man With The Golden Gun' but still one of the best. At least she got to live in this film. Maud was 38 when this was released, so one of the older Bond Girls. She appeared as an accidental extra in 'A View To A Kill (1985), but that does not count, besides she is already a Bond Girl twice over. Her last role was in 2010, but not fully retired yet I think.- The glamorous Prunella Gee was trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Her first television series, Shabby Tiger (1973), gave her instant notoriety due to her nude scenes. She regularly cropped up on British television thereafter, being chosen to guest star in single episodes of The Sweeney (1975), Return of the Saint (1978), Hammer House of Horror (1980), and The Professionals (1977). Gee's list of film credits includes The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) with Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine, the James Bond adventure Never Say Never Again (1983) with Sean Connery, and Stormy Monday (1988), in which she played Sting's wife. On stage, she has played all three women in 'The Last of the Red Hot Lovers', the blind Sheila in 'Wait Until Dark', the double role of Alice in 'Double Take' and Romaine in 'Witness for the Prosecution'. In 1998, Gee went to Los Angeles to make Merchants of Venus (1998), in which she starred with Michael York, Beverly D'Angelo, and Brian Cox. One year later she appeared as Doreen Heavey for a five month stint in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street (1960). Since giving up acting in 2004, Gee has worked as a counselor and therapist in Camden, London. In 2011, she agreed to appear in the short film Trimming Pablo (2013), a one-off return to the acting field.Prunella played Nurse Miss Fearing in 'Never Say Never Again' (1983), the opposition film to Octopussy and remake of 'Thunderball' and its almost exactly the same situation and character, they even have the same Bond actor in Connery, but she does not look as good as Molly Peters from that film, she looks a bit older, possibly to match Bond (although at 33 she was still 20 years younger than Connery). Prunella, an English woman, has had a good acting career, mostly in British TV, although now retired from that, she is now working as a therapist in London, now aged 71.
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Barbara Carrera was born Barbara Kingsbury on December 31, 1945 in Bluefields, Nicaragua. This stunning former model became best known for her screen performances playing a sinister femme fatale. In doing so, she has achieved minor cult status and has quite a loyal fanbase. The tall and tanned Carrera first cropped up in minor roles taking advantage of her exotic features in The Master Gunfighter (1975), Embryo (1976) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). She broke through with mainstream North American audiences playing Clay Basket in the miniseries Centennial (1978), and Lucia Flavius Silva's mistress in the miniseries Masada (1981).
She sizzled on screen with Armand Assante as the sexy yet evil doctor in I, the Jury (1982), was the love interest of Texas Ranger Chuck Norris in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983), and gave her best role to date as assassin Fatima Blush opposite Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again (1983), and then as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988). In 1985-86, she played the role of business executive turned serial killer Angelica Nero on the primetime soap opera Dallas (1978). Carrera has most recently been seen guest starring on the popular television series That '70s Show (1998) and Judging Amy (1999).Barabara had wanted to get into a Bond film for a few years but only with Connery, when he made his comeback for this one film this was her chance, she played the vamp henchwoman in 'Never Say Never Again' (1983) and she looked particularly psychotic, so good acting, she is beautiful but a bit scary. She came onto Bond in a big way and he did the honours but later she got killed. Barbara hails from Nicaragua, but has lived in USA since she was 16, she had retired, but has taken up a new role in 2021, now aged 75.- Actress
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Saskia Cohen Tanugi was born in 1959 in Tunis, Tunisia. She was an actress and writer, known for Never Say Never Again (1983), Le faucon (1983) and Le maître des éléphants (1995). She died on 20 July 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel.She featured in 'Never Say Never Again' quite prominently, although she had a low billing, but appeared to have been shagged by Bond a few times after accidentally bumping into her twice, then he intentionally bumped into her a good few times, however Fatima Blush killed her just to upset Bond. Saskia was born in Tunisia, she only had a brief acting career in the 1980's, this was the highlight of her career, unfortunately she died in Jerusalem in 2020.- Actress
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Kim Basinger was born December 8, 1953, in Athens, Georgia, the third of five children. Both her parents had been in entertainment, her dad had played big-band jazz, and her mother had performed water ballet in several Esther Williams movies. Kim was introspective, from her father's side. As a schoolgirl, she was very shy. To help her overcome this, her parents had Kim study ballet from an early age. By the time she reached sweet sixteen, the once-shy Kim entered the Athens Junior Miss contest. From there, she went on to win the Junior Miss Georgia title, and traveled to New York to compete in the national Junior Miss pageant. Kim, who had blossomed to a 5' 7" beauty, was offered a contract on the spot with the Ford Modeling Agency. At the age of 20, Kim was a top model commanding $1,000 a day. Throughout the early 1970s, she appeared on dozens of magazine covers and in hundreds of ads, most notably as the Breck girl. Kim took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, performed in various Greenwich Village clubs, and she sang under the stage name Chelsea. Kim moved to Los Angeles in 1976, ready to conquer Hollywood. Kim broke into television doing episodes of such hit series as Charlie's Angels (1976). In 1980, she married Ron Snyder (they divorced in 1989). In movies, she had roles like being a Bond girl in Never Say Never Again (1983) and playing a small-town Texan beauty in Nadine (1987). Her breakout role was as photojournalist Vicki Vale in the blockbuster hit Batman (1989). There was no long-orchestrated campaign on her part to snag this plum role, Kim was a last-minute replacement for Sean Young. This took her to a career high.
With perhaps too much disposable income, Kim headed up an investment group that purchased the entire town of Braselton, in her native Georgia, for $20 million (she would later have to sell it). In 1993, Kim married Alec Baldwin, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Ireland Eliesse. Kim took some time off to stay at home with her child. Kim, who loves animals and is a strict vegetarian, devoted energy to animal rights issues, and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), even posing for some ads. In 1997, Kim gave an Oscar-winning performance in the film noir classic L.A. Confidential (1997). Kim's salary for I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was $5,000,000, putting her firmly in the category of big-name movie star. And no doubt there are still many great things ahead, in the career of cover girl turned Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger.Sultry american actor, she played the main Bond girl, Domino in 'Never Say Never Again (1983), mostly in flimsy negligee's, bra & knickers, she did not leave much to the imagination, of course Bond had to shag her, she was on the baddie side, but not really a baddie, so she got to live. Kim has had a stellar career in film and is still going strong at 67 years old and still sexy.- Lovely and slender blonde model and actress Mary Ann Catrin Stavin was born on August 20, 1957 in Orebro, Sweden. The blue-eyed beauty was crowned Miss World in 1977. Stavin released the disco single "Feeling Good, Being Bad/Headline News" on the Ariola label in 1979. She's featured in the music videos for "Ant Rap" and "Strip" by Adam Ant. Mary appeared in the exercise video "Shake Up and Dance" with George Best in the 80s. Moreover, Stavin has acted in several movies; she has the rare distinction of appearing in two James Bond films in different roles and was especially memorable as William Katt's enticing neighbor Tanya in the delightful hit horror comedy "House." Married to businessman Nicholas Wilcockson, Mary is the mother of daughter Liliana Rose. She served as a judge for the Miss World contest in both 1980 and 2010.Mary made up for just being an extra in 'Octopussy' (1983), she returned in 'A View To A Kill' (1985) as Kimberley Jones and shags Bond in the action intro, but she would better have served the Bond franchise if she was a main Bond Girl (instead of Tanya Roberts) as she was extremely beautiful, but alas she missed out, they missed a trick there I think. Mary is another beautiful Swedish model, who was Miss World in 1977, and had a good acting career, she finished her last feature in 2018 and is still going strong at 64 years old.
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Grace Jones was born on May 19, 1948 in Spanish Town, St Catherine, Jamaica to Marjorie Jones (née Williams) and Reverend Robert W. Jones. When she was 12 she moved to Syracuse, New York, joining her family who had already moved there. She studied acting at Syracuse University and appeared in her first musical; halfway through college, she was approached by a drama professor who proposed that she work with him in a play he was putting on in Philadelphia, she accepted.
Jones later moved to New York City and signed on as a model with Wilhelmina Models, but when her looks weren't successfully received, she moved to Paris, France, where her androgynous, bold, dark-skinned appearance was so highly visible, she began to model for Yves Saint-Laurent, Claude Montana, Kenzo Takada, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, Hans Feurer, and Azzedine Alaïa, and she appeared on the covers of "Elle", "Vogue", and "Der Stern."
Disillusioned with modeling, and since she always wanted to be an actress, she began her movie career playing small parts, her first being in the blaxploitation flick Gordon's War (1973) followed by an uncomfortable cameo in the unwatchable French sex comedy Let's Make a Dirty Movie (1976). It wasn't until the the '80s that Jones' on-screen career really soared, when she appeared in three supporting roles: Zula, the amazonian warrior in the American sword and sorcery/adventure film Conan the Destroyer (1984); May Day, the secondary antagonist in the 14th James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985); and Katrina, a bloodthirsty Egyptian vampire queen in the comedy horror Vamp (1986). Leaving audiences with only the resonance of unique and tantalizing movie performances, Jones hasn't acted in a feature film since the '90s.
In recent years, Jones's primary focus is sharing the vulnerability behind her larger-than-life persona. Jones and director Sophie Fiennes released the documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017). According to Fiennes, the documentary is not a retelling of what can easily be found in books and magazines, but an intimate portrait of Jones in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion.Probably the freakiest looking Bond Girl but a little sexy, Grace played May Day in 'A View To A Kill' (1985), she was psychotic hench-woman that Bond bedded in Zorin's mansion whilst on night manouvres, she actually turned into a goodie at the end when Zorin abandoned her and left her to die, she sacrificed herself to save others. Grace hails from Jamaica and also was a model, although not the best looking woman (her face looks like a Baboon's arse to me), and a musician, her music being on many film soundtracks, she has also had a good acting career despite a reputation for being trouble, and is still acting at the age of 73.- Actress
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The only child of Pamela and Bernard Fullerton was born in Kaduna, Nigeria on 10 October 1956. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer and at 11 she enrolled at the Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey where she was spotted and signed to appear in the film 'Run Wild, Run Free' in 1969. This was followed by 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in 1971, and in 1972 the title role in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', which was her big break. In 1975 was one of the original leads in the BBC television hospital drama series 'Angels'. The next year she married actor Simon MacCorkindale, divorcing him in 1981. Her career went quiet until in 1985 she became a Bond Girl, playing Pola Ivanova in 'A View To A Kill', then was one of the women involved with Nigel Harvers in the miniseries 'The Charmer.' As her career progressed, she encountered old family friend Neil Shakell again and fell in love with him; she married him in 1994 and became stepmother to his son James, and the next year she gave birth to Lucy. In 1996 she answered a knock on her door to face a gunman; later she discovered that the reason he didn't shoot her was that her baby was in her arms. She had already become disillusioned with her career, and the incident made her shun the limelight. She began buying, renovating, and selling houses, and she became so successful that she now owns a company that looks after property and an interior-design consultancy. Writing a property-advice column for two national newspapers for 10 years encouraged her to write three property-focused books. Besides her film and television work she played two well-known women on stage: Guinevere in Camelot opposite Richard Harris, and Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion.Played Pola Ivanova in 'A View To A Kill' (1985) and was the most sexy in the film, apparently, according to the dialogue, he shagged her before and did so again in this. She played a KGB agent, who was after the same thing Bond was, but Bond deceived her, but at least she did not die. Fiona was a topless model and had a good TV & Film career, she retired in 1992 to focus on family and became a property dealer, although she has done a few cameo roles since, she was born in Nigeria but is an English woman, and is still living in England aged 64.- Actress
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The second daughter of manufacturing executive Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy, Tanya Roberts was born 1949 in Manhattan and grew up in the elite Westchester County suburbs Scarsdale and Greenburgh. Tanya reportedly dropped out of high school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled. She met psychology student Barry Roberts while waiting in line to see a movie. A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married. She studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen. In her early years in New York, she supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor and by modeling. She appeared in off-Broadway productions of "Picnic" and "Antigone", and in television commercials for Ultra Brite, Clairol and Cool Ray sunglasses.
In 1977, Tanya and her husband -- by then a scriptwriter -- moved to Hollywood. She began appearing in made-for-TV films including Pleasure Cove (1979), Zuma Beach (1978), and Waikiki (1980). Her film debut was in The Last Victim (1976). After appearing in several minor films, her first big break came when she was selected as the last Angel on the final season of Charlie's Angels (1976), and was featured on the cover of People magazine (02/09/1981). The attention she garnered helped secure her most significant film roles: The Beastmaster (1982) (and posed for the cover and an inside spread in Playboy magazine to promote the film), the title role in Sheena (1984) and as a Bond girl in A View to a Kill (1985). She continued to appear in films, though mainly direct-to-video and direct-to-cable features. She was featured in the CD computer game The Pandora Directive (1996) and had a recurring lead role in the television series That '70s Show (1998). Widowed in 2006, Tanya Roberts died of sepsis from a urinary tract infection in 2021.Tanya played the main Bond girl in 'A View To A Kill (1985), Stacey Sutton an American heiress who did not have much left, and was selling out to Zorin until Bond intervened, later he shagged her, she was quite beautiful but had an annoying hoarse voice, but not much to choose from between her, Fiona Fullerton and Mary Stavin in the way of looks, 3 of the best looking Bond Girls in the franchise in 1 film, but I put Fiona and Mary ahead of her, because she was annoying. Tanya hails from New York, USA, she died in California in 2021 aged 71.- Producer
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Another who I don't know much about, she had one of the shortest roles as a Bond girl in the intro of 'The Living Daylights' (1987), she is on a Boat in the Mediterranean talking to a friend about the difficulties finding a real man when Bond para glides onto her boat, he then proceeds to shag her before returning, so she got her "real" man there and then. Belle (from USA) has only acted in 7 features, now she is a producer and is still working as that today. Living in Virginia, USA.- Actress
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Born in London, England and raised in European cities such as Paris and Geneva, Maryam d'Abo has rewarded audiences with her beauty and presence for over twenty years. Maryam first appeared in Xtro (1982), a gory horror film that is considered a cult entry in the genre. She appeared consistently throughout the mid-1980s in a variety of films, including two mini-series based on novels of author Sidney Sheldon: Master of the Game (1984) and If Tomorrow Comes (1986). She accepted "Laughter in the Dark" based on the Vladimir Nabokov novel. Her co-stars were Maximilian Schell and Mick Jagger. She thought it would be her big break, since it was a very challenging role, and she was in every scene. But financing fell through, and the film was never completed. The stress made her lose weight, and she appeared more mature. Which turned out to be just the right look for a classical cellist in her next film. Thus, her real big break came in the form of the James Bond film, The Living Daylights (1987). Maryam played Bond girl "Kara Milovy", opposite Timothy Dalton's "James Bond". The film gave her career a real jolt, and she found herself in leading roles throughout the early 1990s, in a variety of films. She based herself in both England and the USA, appearing in Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993) and the European horror movie Immortal Sins (1991). She played her hand in the erotic thriller genre, appearing in Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993), Tropical Heat (1993) and an episode of Red Shoe Diaries (1992), featured on the video [error]. She starred in more films throughout the mid-1990s, opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in Double Obsession (1992), a remake: The Browning Version (1994), a romantic comedy called Solitaire for 2 (1994), and thrillers such as Timelock (1996) and An American Affair (1997).
In 2002, Maryam drew on her experiences as a Bond Girl to write, produce and host Bond Girls Are Forever (2002), examining the culture and connotations of being a Bond girl, and the subsequent effects on a film career. This interesting documentary shed new light on the topic of James Bond films, and appeared on British and American television, whilst gaining a DVD release. Maryam strayed away from commercial features, opting to appear in a variety of television dramas, including: a TV mini series of Doctor Zhivago (2002) and Helen of Troy (2003). More recently, she appeared in San Antonio (2004), Evil Remains (2004), a movie filmed in France L'enfer (2005) and a direct-to-video sequel, The Prince & Me II: The Royal Wedding (2006). Maryam has displayed talent in a variety of genres, she continues to make guest appearances for her fans, and is likely to appear in more films. She also works on films with her husband director Hugh Hudson, whom she married in 2003. This striking blonde actress, a former Bond girl, holds her own up with the best of them.The main Bond girl in 'The Living Daylights' (1987) as Kara Milovy, Maryam is probably the least pretty of the main ones and in the lower half of all the Bond girls when it comes to looks - she looked like a Gerbil, but since the Latest Bond - Timothy Dalton looks like a Lizard, so on a par. Bond discovers her as a misplaced hit(woman), but does not kill her and proceeds to fall in love with her, I was surprised they didn't marry her off to him. Maryam who was born in London but of mixed European heritage has had a long acting career, and still at it, now aged 60.- A former leading fashion model, almost 5'10'' tall, Carey was a favorite with top American designers such as Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. Her father is a distinguished geologist who was voted Scientist of the Year in 1979 at the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. As a result of his career Carey grew up all around the world. She started modeling part time while she was at the University of Colorado and caught the attention of a representative of the Ford model Agency in New York. She moved to France in 1980 and lived briefly in Paris and Bordeaux before deciding to return to New York to continue with her college education and modeling career and was soon appearing on the covers of Vogue, Glamour, etc. In between her modeling assignments she was a full time student obtaining a major in literature at New York University. Gradually she became interested in acting and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. She made her acting debut with a small role in 'Club Paradise' in 1986 with Robin Williams. Her leisure time is spent skiing, wind surfing, rock climbing and white water rafting.Carey played Pam Bouvier the main Bond girl, Privateer pilot and sometime CIA operative in 'Licence To Kill' (1989), Bond joins up with her in his quest to destroy drug lord Sanchez, and its not long before he beds her. Carey is not one of the sexiest, she looks more like a boy than a girl but has a great body., she was a model before her acting career took off, she has not done that much but is still acting, from the USA and still lives there, her other claim to fame is that she was married to Richard Gere, but they are now divorced, she is now 60 years old.
- Born to a Puerto Rican family in Brooklyn, Talisa was raised there and in Massachusetts. She started modeling at age 15 and has appeared on the covers of "Vogue," "Mademoiselle," "Glamour," and "Self," as well as in a "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue. She has been making film appearances since 1988, beginning with Spike of Bensonhurst (1988).Easily the best looking girl in the film, despite a bit of a hooked nose, she played Lupe in 'Licence To Kill' (1989), she was on the side of the baddies but not really a bad person, just a bit of a gold-digger, Bond shags her whilst on night manouvoures. Fortunately for a change, she lives and hooks up with El Presidente at the end. Talisa is Puerto Rican but born in the USA and still lives there, she was one of the younger Bond girls, 22 years and 4 months old at release, she has had a good acting career, she has not worked since 2009, so maybe retired now.
- She first became interested in acting while at Hurst Lodge School, primarily a ballet and drama school.in Sunningdale, and originally, she fancied being a ballet dancer. She then had a short period at Cobham Hall girls' school in Kent then 2 years at a boys' school in Bryanston, Dorset, which had a great theatre which influenced her decision to go there as by that time she had shown an aptitude for acting. She spent 2 and a 1/2 years at RADA then straight into the role of Helena at Regents Park open air theatre in a production of 'Midsummer Nights Dream' and Diana in 'Ring Around the Moon' which subsequently toured the Middle East. A further year of stage work was followed by her television debut in a mini-series called 'Queenie then a small role in the film 'Maurice' and the part of Lucy Manette in 'A Tale of Two Cities' which was filmed in France.An English actor, Serena played Caroline, the evaluating officer who Bond shagged in the Aston Martin after the car race with Xenia in 'Goldeneye' (1995), like smoking a cigarette after sex, but the other way around. Serena has had an average career, mostly in British TV and is still going, her last production was in 2016, she lives in England.
- Born in the northern Polish town of Bialystok, Izabella Scorupco moved to Sweden with her mother as a young child. She studied drama and music and, at 17, was discovered by a Swedish film director who cast her in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (1988), which made her a local teen idol. She then became a successful model in Sweden and throughout Europe, where she made good use of her fluency in four languages.
In 1989, Scorupco displayed another facet of her talents, launching her career as a pop singer with her first single, Substitute. The single and subsequent album, IZA, both went gold, and she followed with another hit single, Shame, Shame, which she recorded in 1991. Returning to acting in 1994, she immediately won the lead role in the Swedish film The Tears of Saint Peter (1995). Scorupco stars as a woman who lives her life as a man in the medieval drama, which was released in August 1995.
Shortly after Izabella received international attention after landing the leading female role in the Bond movie "Goldeneye" starring against Pierce Brosnan. In 2000 she played one of the adventurers in "Vertical limit" and went on to the lead female in the science-fantasy movie "Reign of fire" against Matthew Mc Conaughey and Christian Bale. In 2004 Izabella acted against fellow Swede Stellan Skarsgård in the Renny Harlin film "The Exorcist- the beginning". After a couple of roles in American TV-series, Izabella decided to work on the Scandinavian market again, first in the crime/thriller story "Solstrom" against Michael Persbrandt and and then onto the drama "Guardian angel", a heartbreaking story opposite Michael Nyqvist. Izabella tried a whole different genre in 2014 when she starred the in the hit comedy movie "Micke and Veronica". Izabella resides in Los Angeles with her two teenage kids and three dogs.A very attractive Polish girl, Izabella played the main Bond girl Natalya Simonova in 'Goldeneye' (1995) as a computer operator, who then got involved with Bond in the operation, eventually shagging him. But she was not the most attractive in the Film, that went to Famke Jannsen (Holland) who played the psychotic henchwoman Xenia Onatopp, who Bond got into a clinch with twice, but no sex. She died of course but Natalya lived. Izabella started acting in Sweden where she had moved, but now lives in the USA and still acting. - Actress
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Cecilie Thomsen was born on 29 October 1974 in Bogø, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), 54 (1998) and House of Fools (2002).Easily the most sexy and beautiful in the film 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997), Cecilie played Professor Inga Bergstrom (not named in film) who he was shagging in a hotel in the intro, presumably a left-over from his last mission. Cecilie is from Denmark and has had a short acting career, her last production was in 2009, she tries to keep her life private though, so no info on her since.- Actress
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Teri Hatcher is an American actress, writer, presenter, and former NFL cheerleader. She is known for her television roles, portraying Lois Lane on the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997), and as Susan Mayer on the television series Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Teri Lynn Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the only child of Esther (Beshur), a computer programmer, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. She has Syrian (from her immigrant maternal grandfather), Frisian, English, and Irish ancestry. Teri grew up in Sunnyvale, California, and spent her childhood dancing, and fishing with her father. While at Fremont High School, she was captain of the Featherettes, a dance team that had the look of regular cheerleaders, with the exception of the large headdresses they wore. She was voted "Most Likely to Become a Solid Gold (1980) Dancer" by her graduating class in 1982. Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while taking a degree course in mathematics and engineering at De Anza College in Cupertino, California. She became a member of the 1984 Gold Rush, the name of the professional cheer leading squad of the American football San Francisco 49ers.
Hatcher went to Hollywood to lend moral support to a friend during a open casting call. She, however, auditioned and won the role of the singing and dancing mermaid for the television series The Love Boat (1977). She went on to play "Penny Parker," a ditsy but sweet-hearted struggling actress on MacGyver (1985). When that show ended, she auditioned for and won the role of smart and savvy "Lois Lane" on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), saying that she didn't want to be stuck with the pretty airhead image she had acquired as "Penny Parker."
She married actor Jon Tenney in May 1994. She gave birth to daughter Emerson Tenney on November 10, 1997. Later, she signed to play "Sally Bowles" in a road tour of Cabaret. The tour debuted in Los Angeles on March 2, 1999. Her final show was on September 4, 1999. She stayed out of the industry for a little bit before nabbing a role on the darkly comedic soap opera Desperate Housewives (2004), which could have been a huge mistake. The show turned out to be a mega-hit, which skyrocketed Hatcher to the A-list. Her portrayal of a divorced mother, "Susan Mayer," was consistently named as America's favorite "Desperate Housewife." Hatcher won both a Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and the SAG Award for Female Actor in a Comedy Series before the show's first season was even over.Played Paris Carver in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997) and it is revealed that she used to be his girlfriend, but now she is married to bad guy Elliot Carver, however she goes to Bond to try to extract what he knows about Carver, sent by Carver, obviously, but she wanted to shag Bond anyway, but Carver has her killed after for good measure. Teri is from California and has had a stellar career in American Film & TV and was still going at it until 2019.- Actress
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Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant title in and the Miss Moomba beauty pageant title in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1980s. Her first on camera work was a 1984 commercial with martial arts star Jackie Chan. In 1985, she began making action movies with D&B Films of Hong Kong. She was first billed as Michelle Khan, then Michelle Yeoh. Never a trained martial artist, she relied on her dance discipline and on-set trainers to prepare for martial arts action scenes.
She uses many dance moves in her films and does most of her own stunts. In 1988, she married wealthy D&B Films executive Dickson Poon & retired from acting. Even though they divorced in 1992, she's close to Poon's second wife and a godmother to his daughter. When she returned to acting, she became very popular w/ Chinese audiences. She later became known to Western audiences through role in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and in the phenomenally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). She turned down a role in a sequel to The Matrix (1999).
She has her own production company, Mythical Films. She trained with the Shen Yang Acrobatic team for her role in The Touch (2002), an English-language film she both starred in and produced. She hopes to use her company to discover and nurture new film-making talent. She also aspires to act in roles that combine both action and deeper spiritual themes.She was Wei Lin in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997) working for the Chinese Secret Service, they team together and she comes in handy with her Gong Fu, and she nearly gets killed but Bond saves her and at the end she gives herself to him. Michelle who is from Malaysia but with Chinese heritage has also had a stellar career, but in Chinese cinema, working in Martial Arts films such as 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', she is still going strong with several productions on the go, having just done Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings" and still looking great, the photo with this listing his her at 57 years old.- Actress
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Serena Scott Thomas was born on 21 September 1961 in Nether Compton, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Inherent Vice (2014), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Hostage (2005). She was previously married to Scott J. Tepper.Serena was playing a Doctor - Molly Warmflash, who was giving a medical to Bond in 'The World is Not Enough' (1999), he shags her so she passes him fit even though he wasn't. I know during Brosnan's tenure there was less sexual innuendo, but they could have named her "Warmbush" instead, just this one sexual pun would have been ok, however sadly it was not to be. Serena was one of the older Bond girls at 38 upon release, she was born in England but now lives in the USA and has had a good career in TV and Film, and still at it, now aged 60.- Actress
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Sophie Marceau was born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu in Paris, France, to Simone (Morisset), a shop assistant, and Benoît Maupu, a truck driver. She grew up far from the studio spotlights. When she was 14 she was living in the Paris suburb of Gentilly with her father. She learned from friends that director Claude Pinoteau was looking for new faces for a movie about teenagers called The Party (1980). She auditioned for the role, got it, and the film was a success. She played in The Party 2 (1982), then bought back her contract with Gaumont when she was 16 years old for one million French francs. She is a critically acclaimed actress, having received the Cesar for Best Feminine Hope for "La Boum 2" in 1983. She was elected Romantic actress for Chouans! (1988) at the Festival International du Film Romantique (International Festival of Romantic Movie) of Cabourg in 1988, and was awarded the Moliere of the Best Theatrical Revelation for "Eurydice et Pygmalion" in 1994.Stunning French beauty, Sophie played the Azerbaijani oil heiress Elektra King in 'The World is Not Enough' (1999) who turns out to be a baddie in partnership with Renard (Robert Carlyle). Bond in his protective guise slips her one whilst supposing to be her bodyguard. But it doesn't make too much impression on her, she tries to kill him later, but fails and Bond kills her. Sophie has already had a substantial acting career, and is still acting.- Actress
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Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances in Starship Troopers (1997) with Casper Van Dien, Wild Things (1998) and The World Is Not Enough (1999), in which she plays a Bond Girl. She also was in Undercover Brother (2002) with Eddie Griffin and appeared in Scary Movie 3 (2003) with her now ex-husband, Charlie Sheen.She appears a bit late in 'The World is Not Enough' (1999) but I suppose she is the main Bond girl, but its a bit thin, she plays Dr Christmas Jones, a nuclear scientist who is unwittingly helping the baddies and ends up getting in with Bond, but no sex for a while at least, but he nails her at the end, with the added pun "I thought Christmas only came once a year". Denise is American and a former model, but she has a boyish face, so I don't know why she was a model, but she does have a great body, she has been acting a while now and still in the thick of it with several productions on the go.- Actress
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Halle Maria Berry was born Maria Halle Berry on August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Oakwood, Ohio to Judith Ann Berry (née Hawkins), a psychiatric nurse & Jerome Jesse Berry, a hospital attendant. Her father was African-American and her mother is of mostly English and German descent. Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant. After participating in the pageant, Halle became a model. It eventually led to her first weekly TV series, 1989's Living Dolls (1989), where she soon gained a reputation for her on-set tenacity, preferring to "live" her roles and remaining in character even when the cameras stopped rolling. It paid off though when she reportedly refused to bathe for several days before starting work on her role as a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) because the role provided her big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang (1992), one of the few times that Murphy was evenly matched on screen. In 1994, Berry gained a youthful following for her performance as sexy secretary "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones (1994). She next had a highly publicized starring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah (1995). Though the movie received mixed reviews, Berry didn't let that slow her down, and continued down her path to super-stardom.
In 1998, she received critical success when she starred as a street smart young woman who takes up with a struggling politician in Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998). The following year, she won even greater acclaim for her role as actress Dorothy Dandridge in made-for-cable's Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Movie/Mini-Series. In 2000, she received box office success in X-Men (2000) in which she played "Storm", a mutant who has the ability to control the weather. In 2001, she starred in the thriller Swordfish (2001), and became the first African-American to win Best Actress at the Academy Awards, for her role as a grieving mother in the drama Monster's Ball (2001).Absolutely gorgeous Halle was Jinx in 'Die Another Day' (2002), the main one and what a great Bond Girl, not just because she has a fantastic figure and beautiful face, but she has character and can act really well. Bond hooks up with her after she rises from the sea on the beach ala Ursula Andress, but much sexier, and they cross paths again and team together to try and sort out Gustave Graves. Halle is an Oscar Winning American actress of some note, with an extensive list of roles and still going, and still looks fantastic, if after 'No Time To Die' they continue making Bond films, they have to get her back.- Actress
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Born in 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and an opera singer father, Julian Pike. Due to her parents' work, she spent her early childhood traveling around Europe. Pike attended Badminton School in Bristol, England and began acting at the National Youth Theatre. While appearing in a National Youth Theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet", she was first spotted and signed by an agent, although she continued her education at Wadham College, Oxford, where she read English Literature, eventually graduating with an upper second class honors degree.
Pike appeared in a number of UK television series, including Wives and Daughters (1999), before scoring an auspicious feature film debut as the glacial beauty "Miranda Frost" in the James Bond film, Die Another Day (2002); when the film was released, she was only 23. Though her debut was a big-budget action film, the film work that followed was primarily in smaller, independent films, including Promised Land (2004), The Libertine (2004), (for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award at The British Independent Film Awards), and Pride & Prejudice (2005), as one of the Bennet daughters. A brief foray into Hollywood film followed with the action flick, Doom (2005), and the thriller, Fracture (2007), but she returned to smaller films with exceptional performances in three films: An Education (2009), Made in Dagenham (2010), and the lead opposite Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version (2010).
As she continued her stage work in England, Pike appeared in the spy spoof, Johnny English Reborn (2011), and inhabited the role of "Andromeda" in the sci-fi epic, Wrath of the Titans (2012). She returned to action films with the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher (2012).
Pike entered into a relationship with a mathematical researcher named Robie Uniacke in 2009. She gave birth to their first son, named Solo, in May 2012. She returned to acting and landed the coveted title role in Gone Girl (2014). The film became a critical and box-office hit, with Pike earning the film's sole Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She also earned nominations as Best Actress from Screen Actor's Guild, Golden Globes, and BAFTA. She gave birth to her second son with Uniacke in December 2014.Played a double agent in 'Die Another Day' (2002), she was supposed to be working for MI6 but in reality was a baddie under Gustave Graves, Bond shagged her as part of his cover, as he described it, in the Ice Palace, whilst he still thought of her as a goodie, later Jinx killed her on the plane. Rosamund was not the sexiest Bond girl, she looked a little boyish, and she was one of the younger Bond Girls at 23, however she has had an extensive career since and been nominated for an Oscar, she has many years of good acting in her yet.- Actress
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French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French, Spanish, and Sephardic Jewish heritage (during that time, Algeria was part of France), and Eva's father is of Swedish, French, and Breton descent. She has a fraternal twin sister, Joy. Eva left French school at 17. She switched to the American School in France for one year. She left the American School and studied acting at Saint Paul Drama School in Paris for three years, then had a 10-week polishing course at the Weber Douglas Academy of dramatic Art in London. She returned to Paris as an accomplished young actress, and played on stage in several theater productions: "La Jalousie en Trois Fax" and "Turcaret". There, she caught the eye of director Bernardo Bertolucci. Green followed a recommendation to work on her English. She studied for two months with an English coach before doing The Dreamers (2003) with Bernardo Bertolucci. During their work, Bertolucci described Green as being "so beautiful it's indecent".
Green won critical acclaim for her role in The Dreamers (2003). After "The Dreamers", Green played the love interest of cult French gentleman-thief, Arsène Lupin (2004), opposite Romain Duris. In 2005, she co-starred, opposite Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson, in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), produced and directed by Ridley Scott. The film brought her a wider international exposure. She turned down the femme fatale role in The Black Dahlia (2006), that went to Hilary Swank, because she didn't want to end up typecast after her role in "The Dreamers". Instead, Eva accepted the prestigious role of "Vesper Lynd", one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig, in Casino Royale (2006) and became the fifth French actress to play a James Bond girl, after Claudine Auger in Thunderball (1965), Corinne Cléry in Moonraker (1979), Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Sophie Marceau in The World Is Not Enough (1999). She achieved international recognition for the film, one of the highest-grossing Bond movies ever.
Since then, Green has starred in the films Dark Shadows (2012), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). She also starred as Vanessa Ives in Showtime's horror drama Penny Dreadful (2014). Her performance in the series earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.
Since her school years, Green has been a cosmopolitan multilingual and multicultural person. Yet, since her father always lived in France with them and her mother, she and her twin sister can't speak Swedish. She developed a wide scope of interests beyond her acting profession and became an aspiring art connoisseur and an avid museum visitor. Her other activities, outside of acting, include playing and composing music, cooking at home, walking her terrier, and collecting art. She shares time between her two residencies, one is in Paris, France, and one in London, England.She played Vesper Lynd, Bond's first love in the Ian Fleming novels, and this is a film of the first story 'Casino Royale' (2006), she is the only Bond girl in it. There was great dialogue between her and Bond and she resisted his attentions for a while, before they started running around having a love affair, shagging each other senseless, Bond putting all his sexual energy into one woman, but it all went sour when she double crossed him over a deal she made with Quantum (SPECTRE) to save her Algerian boyfriend, and she drowned herself. Bond was going to quit to be with her.
Eva is not British as some seem to think despite her accent, she is French and is having a lot of success in movies since her arrival on the scene in 2003, I don't think she as beautiful as everyone else seems to think, but she is a good actor, with many more good years to come.
Since Daniel Craig took the role and the re-start of the franchise with 'Casino Royale' the sex action has been notably less than in the previous films, usually keeping himself to one woman in each, Bond saving some of his energy to the job at hand, for the most part anyway.- Actress
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Gemma Christina Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, where she was raised. She is the daughter of Sally-Anne (Heap), a cleaner, and Barry J. Arterton, a welder. Her mother's cousin is singer-songwriter Eric Goulden.
Her parents divorced when she was age five, and Gemma subsequently lived with her younger sister and her mother. Her parents encouraged their children to explore their creative abilities. Gemma's sister, Hannah, liked to sing, whereas Gemma chose acting. During her teenage years, she was part of the Masquerade and Miskin theater companies, appearing in productions of The Massacre of Civitella and Guiding Star. In 2004, she won an award for Best Supporting Actress, which helped her to win a grant to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
Whilst studying at RADA, she landed her first professional role in Capturing Mary (2007), directed by Stephen Poliakoff and starring Maggie Smith. Gemma graduated from RADA in 2007 and won her first film role in St. Trinian's (2007). Her breakthrough role came in 2008, when she appeared in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008). In 2009, she was the winner of Empire's Best Newcomer Award.She is the only true Bond Girl in 'Quantum of Solace' (2008), but she is not the main one? She plays Agent (Strawberry) Fields who won't tell Bond her first name, and is his assistant, Bond shags her when he had some spare time (the only one he shagged in the film), but she got killed in a scene copying Shirley Eaton's famous death scene in 'Goldfinger' but instead of Gold, Gemma is covered in and drowned in oil. Gemma is a British actress with a string of roles under her belt despite her youth and still getting good roles. She was 22 years and 8 months old on release, one of the younger girls to be bedded by Bond.
The main Bond girl in the film is also the most beautiful, Olga Kurylenko, a Ukranian actress who played Camille, but despite being in almost all of the film she does not have much of a relationship with Bond and no sex, she just wants to kill the man who killed her parents' and she did. So although the main girl, not a Bond girl in my list. I have mentioned her separately below.- Actress
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Tonia Sotiropoulou was born on 28 April 1987 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and producer, known for Skyfall (2012), Hercules (2014) and Waiting Room (2018). She has been married to Kostis Maraveyas since 11 October 2021.Played the prostitute that Bond was having sex with at the start of 'Skyfall' (2012), Bond was lying low (ish) in Turkey and out of the Spy business after Moneypenny shot him off the top of a train roof. Tonia is Greek so fit the role well, and she is the most beautiful in the film. She was born in Greece but moved to London to do acting, she is still getting plenty of work, and in terms of actual age is the youngest Bond Girl, although not the youngest in a film.- British actress Naomie Harris was born in London, England, the only child of television scriptwriter Lisselle Kayla. Her father is from Trinidad and her mother is from Jamaica. They separated before she was born, and Harris was raised by her mother and has no relationship with her father. She showed an interest in acting from an early age and attended the prestigious Anna Scher Theatre School. From here, Harris won roles in various projects, such as Simon and the Witch (1987) and The Tomorrow People (1992). She went on to study social and political sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, an experience Harris did not enjoy.
After graduating from the University, Harris trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Acting success soon followed and her breakthrough film role came in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2002). Other notable projects include Miami Vice (2006) and Small Island (2009) (for which she was named best female actor by the Royal Television Society). Harris also won fans for her role as voodoo witch Tia Dalma in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), and further international attention came her way when she played field agent Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond film Skyfall (2012).
Naomie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the drama Moonlight (2016), which won the Best Picture Oscar that year.
Naomie Harris was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2017 New Years Honours for her services to drama.Very attractive British actor Naomie Harris took over the role of Moneypenny in 'Skyfall' (2012), but a different character from the original, her name is Eve, it is not explained how or why, but probably, or we are assuming, she is a relative of the first Moneypenny (played by Lois Maxwell). After all the frustration on the part of the original Moneypenny where she fails to get into a sexual relationship or marry Bond, at last this Moneypenny got to do just that in this film (the sex bit), its inferred that after the sexy shaving scene Bond had her for the night, but at this point Bond does not know her name, so he does not know he just shagged a Moneypenny, she reveals that at the end of the film.
I suppose she was the main Bond Girl in this, but due to the nature of the film it is hard to define that. She was in 'Spectre' as well, but nothing happened in that, so maybe she will fall into the same role as the old Moneypenny now that he's found out she works with him rather than being a bit on the side, he doesn't like commitment!
Naomie is a cracking actor as well as being quite beautiful and has already appeared in some first rate movies, and in demand. - French actress Bérénice Marlohe first came to international attention when she was cast as the glamorous and enigmatic Severine in the twenty-third Bond film Skyfall (2012), alongside Daniel Craig which grossed over 1.11 billion dollars worldwide. Marlohe will continue to expand her presence in the States on the silver screen. In 2015 she starred in writer-director Victor Levin's romantic dramedy 5 to 7 (2014), which had its world premiere at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Marlohe stars opposite Anton Yelchin (Star Trek) as an aspiring novelist in New York who has a 5-to-7 affair with the wife of a French diplomat (Bérénice Marlohe). IFC released the film in April 2015. This year , Bérénice wrapped on Tim Smit's "Redivider" and Lech Majewski's Valley of the Gods (2019) where she appears alongside Josh Hartnett, Charlotte Rampling and John Malkovich. In 2017 Bérénice will appear in both Joe Miale's sci-fi thriller Revolt (2017) opposite Lee Pace and Terrence Malick's "Weightless" alongside an amazing ensemble cast that includes Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett. She will also appear in David Lynch's Twin Peaks (2017) alongside Naomi Watts, Laura Dern and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Bérénice Marlohe was born in Paris, France and is of French, Chinese and Cambodian descent .Was the femme fatale in 'Skyfall' (2012) Bond met her in a Casino (where else would you meet a femme fatale?), and persuaded her into helping him in return for killing her lover Silva, as long as he could get out of the Casino alive, there were baddies waiting to kill him, but of course he got through that with the help of Moneypenny, if a shags in the offering, a few hitmen/thugs would be no problem for him, at least he put the same effort into his job. He got to the boat and shagged her in the shower, and of course when they met Silva he killed her. She was not the best looking though, she had a large jutting chin and high cheekbones, but a lovely body. Berenice is French but now lives in the USA, she has already had a good career and now looks much more beautiful than she did in this.
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Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. In 1988, she moved to one of Europe's fashion centers, Milan, and joined Elite Model Management. Although enjoying great success as a model, she made her acting debut on television in 1990, and her American film debut in Bram Stoker's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Her role in the French thriller The Apartment (1996), shot her to stardom as she won the French equivalent of an Oscar nomination. Other credits include Malena (2000), Under Suspicion (2000) and Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001).Monica played Dona Lucia in 'Spectre' (2015), a widow who Bond seduced in order to find out information, the media made a big thing that Monica was too old to play a Bond Girl, but I don't know why, she was more attractive than many of the others and at least on par with the main Bond girl in this feature. Monica was referred as a Bond Girl many years before, but did not get the job, despite being one of the most beautiful actresses in the world, but she has not had to worry about it, she has had an extensive career, starting in Italy where she is from, and now works all over the world and still going strong. And yes, she became the oldest Bond Girl at 51 years old on release, beating Valerie Leon and Honor Blackman by a good 11 years.- Actress
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French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also descends from the Schlumberger family). Her parents are both of mixed French and Alsatian German descent, with more distant Venezuelan (Spanish, Basque) roots on her father's side.
Léa began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). She first came to attention after she received her first César Award nomination for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008), and won the Trophée Chopard, an award given to promising actors at the Cannes Film Festival. Since then, she has appeared in major Hollywood films including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011), and Brad Bird's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). In French cinema, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for a second time for her role in Belle Épine (2010) and was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for the film Farewell, My Queen (2012).
In 2013, Seydoux came to widespread attention when Seydoux and co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos, alongside director Abdellatif Kechiche, were awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, for their involvement in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)). As a special prize for their roles, Along with Jane Campion, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever won a Palme d'Or.
That same year, she also received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and, in 2014, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films Beauty and the Beast, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent. In 2015 she played Madeleine Swann in the 24th James Bond film Spectre.She was the main Bond Girl in both 'Spectre' (2015), and 'No Time To Die' (2021), playing the daughter of Mr. White, the erstwhile villain of 3 Bond movies, just before her dad killed himself, he put Bond onto her, to get information, which Bond went for, he got the info he needed and took her with him, despite her protests, there was no initial attraction, despite her good looks, but they worked their way around to it, he shagged her on the train after the fight with the henchman (ala 'From Russia With Love', 'Live and Let Die' and 'The Spy Who Loved Me'). She reprised the role in 'No Time To Die', with more shagging, as she was his one and only woman in that film. Lea is unsurprisingly French and despite her youth has already done lots of roles and also in great demand.- Actress
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Dolores Keator was born on 16 February 1925 in New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Dr. No (1962) and Lord of the Flies (1963). She was married to Sanford L. Ziff, Albert Goodstein, Richard S. Keator and George William Hoppe. She died on 11 January 2011 in Miami, Florida, USA.Ignore the list numbers from this and after (I don't have control of the numbers only what gets entered), from now on I am not listing True Bond Girls in the films up until 'No Time To Die', after that I will have to update this list.
From this item (no. 68) onwards, some people might consider these Bond Girls, but I do not, but they do have significant roles in the Bond franchise.
I am calling them the 'Notable Bond Women' :-
The first up is Dolores Keator, never heard of her? Maybe it is because she was not an actress as such, although she did appear in 'Dr. No' (1962), hers was the very first female role in a Bond Movie (just before her appearance there were a few local Jamaican women and 1 young girl in the background either as extras or just in the street when the scene was being filmed of the 3 hit-men walking towards the club, they don't count).
Dolores played Strangway's secretary Mary Trueblood (not named in the film) and she is seen sending a message on the radio to MI6 in the UK, just after - the three hitmen kill her, she is only on screen for a few seconds, but at least it was a speaking role, she did not even get to meet Bond. The reason Dolores got the role was the house she was in, the one they filmed in, belonged to her and it must have been an agreement to use her if they wanted to use the house, but she does a good job in the short role. Dolores was an American who lived on Jamaica during this period, and this was her only ever role, she never caught the acting bug, she later moved back to the states and unfortunately passed away in Florida in 2011 aged 85. But her one claim to film History is she was the very first Woman to appear in a Bond movie, and if you are that way inclined, could be the very first Bond Girl if you consider all the female actors in the franchise.- Everyone knows (or should know) Lois Maxwell as the one and only "Miss Moneypenny," but there's much more to her acting career than that. She started out against her parents' will, and without their knowledge, in a Canadian children's radio program, credited as "Robin Wells." Before the age of 15 she left for England with the Canadian army's Entertainment Corps and managed (after her age had been discovered) to get herself enrolled in The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met and became friends with Roger Moore. Her movie career started with a Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger production, A Matter of Life and Death (1946). After having won The Most Promising Newcomer Golden Globe Award in 1947, she went to Hollywood and made six films before she decided to try her luck in Italy. She had to leave Italy to go to England when her husband became ill, and since then she has had roles in a number of movies besides the first 14 Bond movies. In 1989 she retired.
The original and best Miss Moneypenny, the character has been in almost every Bond film to date, and its all down to Lois Maxwell, Lois was Moneypenny from 'Dr. No' (1962) to 'A View To A Kill' (1985) 14 films over 24 years, with all of Connery's (except the rogue Never Say Never Again), the Lazonby film and all of Roger Moore's. She never had sex with Bond, but there was a lot of sexual tension there, but not enough to warrant her as a Bond Girl, especially when she was with Lazonby, and Moore liked the young-uns. A Canadian and a lovely woman with a great smile, she also passed away not too long ago, in 2007 aged 80. No other actress has been able to convey the same class in the role since. When 'A View To A Kill, was released she was 58.
I am only counting Moneypenny once, despite the repeat performances, since she was the same character, also she was not a Bond Girl in the biblical sense. - Actress
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Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and her recordings of songs from those works.
She was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer on October 18, 1898, in Vienna, Austria (at that time Austro-Hungarian Empire), into a working class family. Young Lenya was fond of dancing. In 1914 she moved to Zurich, Switzerland. There she began using her stage name, Lotte Lenya. In Swizerland she studied classical dance, singing and acting and made her stage debut at the Schauspielhaus. In 1921 she moved to Berlin and blended in the city's cosmopolitan cultural milieu. In 1924 she met composer Kurt Weill, and they married in 1926. She performed in several productions of 'The Threepenny Opera', which became an important step in her acting career.
In 1933, with the rise of Nazism in Germany, Lotte Lenya escaped from the country. At the same time, being stressed by the circumstances of life, she divorced from Kurt Weil, to be reunited with him two years later. In 1935 both emigrated to the United States and remarried in 1937. After Kurt Weill's death, she dedicated her efforts to keeping Weill's music played in numerous productions worldwide. In 1957 she won a Tony award for her role as Jenny, performed in English, in a Broadway production of 'The Threepenny Opera'.
Lotte Lenya shot to international fame with her portrayal of Contessa Magda Terbilli-Gozales, Vivien Leigh's friend in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). The role brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She gained additional fame after she appeared as Rosa Klebb, former head of operations for SMERSH/KGB, and now a sadistic Spectre agent with poisonous knife in her shoe, in From Russia with Love (1963). She died of cancer on November 27, 1981, in New York. She is entombed with Kurt Weill in a mausoleum, in Mount Repose Cemetery, in Haverstraw, New York, USA.She played the infamous Rosa Klebb the first Hench-woman (for SPECTRE) in 'From Russia With Love' (1963), with the dagger in her shoe. There was never any relationship between her and Bond, although he did know of her, but she was the first hench-woman and because of that worthy of a mention.
Lotte was Austro-Hungarian, born in Vienna in the 19th century - 1898, so if you think of her as a Bond Girl would quite easily have been the oldest. She had a bit of history, first moving to Switzerland in 1914 then to Germany in 1921, when the Nazi's came to power she left and emigrated to the USA, she was married to a then famous composer - Kurt Weill until he passed away, but being an accomplished musician she took over the concerts of his music.
When she made 'From Russia With Love' she was 65 (so the oldest Woman in a bond film for many years) and a bit ugly, but she was very pretty when younger, despite a short film career she was nominated for an Academy Award for one role and got a Tony for an opera. She passed away in New York 1981 aged 83.- Leila/ Lisa Nelson was an airline hostess for TWA, having emigrated from London, England, UK. Started Oriental dancing by accident at 12 Adler Place, San Francisco, 1961 (the dancer Aisha had run off to Reno to marry)... Instant Success - Warner Bros - checked all the dancers on the West Coast and chose her for the yacht scene in Days Of Wine And Roses. She had only been dancing 3 months! From that time Lisa (Leila) was always featured as The Star Of The Show. Returned to England for one year. Appearing at Persian Night Club Omar Khayam. Again Instant Success... Was written up in all the English newspapers - 2 appearances on David Frost Show That Was The Week That Was: plus other T.V. and charity shows. United Artists had been filming in Turkey and chose Leila to appear in the James Bond film From Russia With Love... "Green-card" time was up - rushed back to the States, so missed-out on all the publicity - but also avoided admitting being a "Nice English Girl"! Danced as the STAR at all the famous casinos and night clubs of the world - Europe - Far East - Middle East - Singapore - Indonesia - etc. Was guest solo artist with the Lebanese National Ballet in Iran for the Shah's coronation... Starred at Tito's Palma Xmas 1969 and fell in love with Majorca - owned one night club, then two bars there during approx. 30 years. The Alhambra in the Pueblo Espanol - Bar Carrousel and Bar Dallas... Lisa Nelson lives in Cala Mayor, Spain.Another in 'From Russia With Love' (1963) is Lisa, also known as Leila Guiraut or Lisa Nelson (her birth name was, probably Lisa Nelson, I don't know much about her, she wrote her own mini bio on here), she played a Belly Dancer (they had a few in the early Bond movies), and she was the best looking woman in the film, Bond did not shag her so I cannot call her a Bond Girl. Lisa was English but emigrated to the USA where her dancing career took off, she only did a few films, but since travelled extensively working as a dancer, and if still alive would be in her 80's last heard to be residing in Spain.
- Tania Mallet was born in Blackpool, England. Her English-born mother, Olga Mironoff, was of Russian descent, and had been a beautiful chorus girl. Her father was a successful English car salesman, Henry Mallet. Her parents divorced and Olga remarried, to George Dawson, with whom she had three sons. George turned out to be a non-violent con man who was sent to prison for three years for committing fraud. Her older brother is actress Helen Mirren's father, making Mallet and Mirren first cousins. They grew up together. Helen wrote in her 2007 autobiography that her cousin "survived this extraordinary upbringing and came out miraculously a loyal and generous person." Tania took a course at the Lucy Clayton School of Modelling and started working as a model at just 16 years old.
In 1961, she appeared as herself in the documentary about models in Michael Winner's Girls Girls Girls! (1961). In 1963 she was considered for the role of the lead James Bond girl in From Russia with Love (1963). Although half-Russian, her provincial English accent deemed her unsuitable for the role of the Russian love interest, so she lost the role to Daniela Bianchi. However, the following year she was cast in the next Bond film, Goldfinger (1964) , playing the ill-fated Tilly Masterson. She agreed to appear in "Goldfinger" as an experiment. She was earning £2,000 a week as a model, and after much bargaining managed to secure only £150 a week as her fee for the film. She claimed that she could not afford to continue working as an actress, because she was earning more as a model. She was supporting her mother and putting her half-brothers thru school with her income as a model.
Tania had mixed feelings about her time on "Goldfinger". Filming was fun, but in her personal life her long-time boyfriend had died at the same time. She had no desire to pursue a career as an actress and went back to modeling. Her first marriage ended when she was still young. In 1976, she married her second husband, Simon Radcliffe, a management consultant. She became a stepmother to his children, including publicist Louisa Radcliffe. It was a marriage that lasted 40 years, when her husband died in 2016, leaving her a widow. She enjoyed a warm relationship with Mirren since childhood, as evidenced by the photos of the two smiling cousins in the latter's autobiography. Mallet continued to attend James Bond events and autographed her photographs at these events.
She died on March 30, 2019 at the age of 77 from undisclosed causes. A day later, Mirren publicly posted a loving tribute, calling Tania a "kind and generous" person and a "great optimist".Tania played Tilly Masterson, Jill Masterson's sister in 'Goldfinger' (1964) she turned up in Switzerland trying to kill Goldfinger in revenge for her sisters death, Bond hooked up with her, but she got killed before any relationship got going. Tania was born in Blackpool, England and was a model, she only had a very short acting career, she almost got cast in 'From Russia With Love' but this was her only film, apparently modelling paid better, she was quite beautiful, sadly she passed away in 2019 aged 77. - Rose Alba was born on 5 February 1918 in Cairo, Egypt. She was an actress, known for Thunderball (1965), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Lord Tramp (1977). She died in December 2005 in Covent Garden, London, England, UK.She was Madame Boitier in the intro of 'Thunderball' (1965) a French Secret Service operative who was assisting Bond, there was no indication that they had done anything, but it seemed they were pretty comfortable with each other in those scenes, perhaps he had already done her, but we will never know. Rose is not French, she was actually born in Egypt in 1918, so aged 47 when making this, but still looked great, she is of English heritage though and lived most of her life there, she had a reasonable acting career, mostly in British TV, from 1955-1983 when she retired, she passed away in 2005 aged 87.
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Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford Repertory Company 1939-40. Her first appearance on the West End stage was as Ellie Dunn in "Heartbreak House" at the Cambridge Theatre in 1943. She performed in France, Belgium and Holland with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association, or Every Night Something Awful) - The British Army entertainment service. She has appeared in many films from her first appearance in Major Barbara (1941).This might be a surprising entry to many. More famous for her other roles, like 'The King and I', Deborah had a stellar career and was a legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
She played Lady Fiona McTarry in the comedy spoof 'Casino Royale' (1967), she wasn't a Bond Girl because the actual Bond (David Niven) was retired and did not participate in sexual affairs in this film, but she did have a crush on him, the inclination was that they previously had a relationship. Despite being much older than the many other girls in the film, most who were models, she was just as beautiful, if not more than many of them, she was 45 when making this.
Deborah was Scottish but brought up in England, in the film she had a plummy Scottish accent which was done on purpose to be dodgy due to the spoof nature of the film, she was the best actor in it. She was nominated for an Oscar 6 times without winning one, but was awarded an honourary Oscar in 1994, she quit Hollywood in 1969, just doing a few TV roles before eventually retiring from acting in 1987, she lived in Switzerland and Spain before returning to England, she sadly passed away in 2007 aged 86.
In my estimation there were no actual Bond Girls in 'Casino Royale (1967)' because Bond did not get romantically attached to anyone, Evelyn Tremble (Peter Sellers) and Cooper (Terence Cooper) who pretended to be 007 in the film, did have sex with Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress) and Mata Bond (Barbara Bouchet) but they don't count, since they were just pretending to be James Bond. Ursula was already a Bond girl anyway from 'Dr. No' (no.4 in this list) and I will enter Barbara and others from that film below this item.- This beautiful, stylish, London-born blonde started out quite promisingly on the stage and in late 1960s films before phasing out her career in the 1990s. Joanna Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon and raised in Canada. Her father, a British Royal Air Force pilot, was killed in WWII. Her trek to New York to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse paid off with subsequent Broadway roles in "Take Her, She's Mine" (debut: understudy to Elizabeth Ashley), "The Chinese Prime Minister" and "Poor Richard" with Alan Bates, which earned her the Theatre World Award in 1965.
A steady role on The Doctors (1963) daytime soap occurred around this time. Escorted to Hollywood, Pettet stood her ground among the other talented hopefuls such as Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter and the late Joan Hackett and Elizabeth Hartman in the glossy Ivy League film soap The Group (1966). Continuing, she proved a diverting love interest in the British thriller Robbery (1967) and in the French/English co-production The Night of the Generals (1967), and was one of the more interesting figures to come out of the elephantine James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), in which she played the fetching, exotic-dancing Mata Bond.
A versatile player, she was unfortunately cast in roles that emphasized her beauty rather than her talent. Playboy magazine took an interest, and she graced a nude pictorial in 1968, the same year she married actor Alex Cord. A host of bad films, however, such as Blue (1968) and The Best House in London (1969), put the kibosh on her film career. In the 1970s she was prominently featured in run-of-the-mill TV movies such as The Weekend Nun (1972), Pioneer Woman (1973), A Cry in the Wilderness (1974), A Midsummer Nightmare (1975) (aka "Appointment with a Killer"), Captains and the Kings (1976), Sex and the Married Woman (1977) and The Return of Frank Cannon (1980). Series work included Night Gallery (1969) and Harry O (1973), but none of this stretched her abilities. By the late 1970s she was appearing in "has-been" shows like Fantasy Island (1977) and The Love Boat (1977). She was little seen after that; her career ended in low-budget work such as Double Exposure (1982), Sweet Country (1987) and Terror in Paradise (1991). Since then, Pettet has been out of the scene.
She was divorced from Cord in 1989. Her only child, Damien Zachary Cord, fell into a fatal coma after an acute heroin overdose in 1995, aged 26. She later became the caregiver and companion of her friend, actor Alan Bates, until his death from cancer in 2003.A vastly underrated actor, Joanna did not get into a 'normal' Bond film, but she played Mata Bond in 'Casino Royale' (1967), the daughter of Mata Hari and Bond (David Niven), she was extremely beautiful second only to Barbara Bouchet in the film, and would have graced any other Bond movie with ease, she was also a good actor, playing the spoof angle in this to perfection. She could not possibly be a Bond girl since she was his daughter. Joanna an English actor, born in London, but raised in Canada and worked in the USA, has had an extensive acting career, eventually retiring in 1990, she now lives back in England aged 78. - Stunningly beautiful and charismatic blonde Barbara Bouchet was born Barbel Goutscherola on August 15th, 1943 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, known as Reichenberg, during the German occupation. Her father, Fritz, was a war photographer.
Her family was forced to leave the country when Barbara was a little girl and her name was changed to Barbara Gutscher. They got separated, but ended up getting together again. They migrated in December 1956 and settled in San Francisco, California, where Barbara attended the prestigious Galileo High School, a polytechnic school with commercial and industrial branches. Bouchet speaks English, German and Italian with equal fluency. In an interview to Shock Cinema (Number 44), Barbara Bouchet says her name had been changed again to Bouchet at the start of her career, because it sounded like her German name.
Barbara was inspired to be a screen actress after seeing the work of German actress Christine Kaufmann in Der schweigende Engel (1954) ("The Silent Angel").
In 1959, her father submitted a photo of her to the "Miss Gidget" beauty contest, and she won. The contest was held by the local television station KPIX-TV, based on the character of what has been considered the first "beach party movie" in Hollywood history, Gidget (1959). The prize included a date with James Darren the famous star of that movie, and a screen test. The screen test never materialized.
Barbara was featured as a dancer on the teen-targeted rock'n'roll TV show, The KPIX Dance Party, from 1959 to 1962.
Bouchet began a career of teen model that led to her extensive magazine cover model (35 covers). In October 1983, at age 40, Bouchet did a nude pictorial for the Italian edition of "Penthouse" magazine.
Barbara acted in TV commercials. She made her film debut with an uncredited bit part in the comedy What a Way to Go! (1964). Bouchet soon became known for openly flaunting her spectacularly curvaceous figure in several pictures: clad in alluring silk harem robes in John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965), cavorting nude on the beaches of Pearl Harbor in the World War II epic In Harm's Way (1965), and wearing a bikini for the bulk of her screen time in Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966). She also portrayed "Ursula" in Bob Fosse's outstanding musical Sweet Charity (1969), made for a nicely sultry "Miss Moneypenny" in the tongue-in-cheek 007 outing Casino Royale (1967), and had guest spots on such TV series as The Virginian (1962), Star Trek (1966), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964).
In 1970, fed-up with being typecast as a mindless sexpot in Hollywood fare, she moved to Italy. She soon became one of Italy's top actresses, carving out a fruitful niche for herself in sex comedies, giallo murder mysteries and gritty crime thrillers. Among her most memorable roles in these Italian features are the brazen spoiled rich lady "Patrizia" in Lucio Fulci's disturbing Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) ("Don't Torture A Duckling"), prostitute "Francine" in The French Sex Murders (1972) ("The French Sex Murders"), modeling agency choreographer "Kitty" in The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) ("Red Queen Kills 7 Times"), saucy love interest "Scilla" in the splendidly sleazy The Mean Machine (1973), and enticing stripper "Anny" in Death Rage (1976) ("Death Rage"). Bouchet had an unforgettably steamy lesbian love scene with Rosalba Neri in Amuck! (1972) ("Amuck"). Barbara Bouchet appeared alongside fellow Bond girls Barbara Bach and Claudine Auger in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) ("The Black Belly of the Tarantula"). Barbara Bouchet continues to act in both films and TV shows, alike, made in Italy. Barbara popped up in a small role (as the wife of giallo star David Hemmings) in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002).
Barbara married producer Luigi Borghese in 1976. They had two sons: Alessandro Borgese (b. 1974), a chef hosting a show on the Italian cable TV; and Massimiliano Borghese (b. 1989), a bartender. During the shooting of Diamond Connection (1984) in Istanbul, there was mention of a separation in the Turkish language "New World Video & Magazine" of September 1984, but the divorce happened much later.
In 1985, Bouchet started her own production company, opened her own health club in Rome, and launched her own line of fitness books and videos.
[based on woodyanders]Probably the most beautiful actor who ever appeared in a Bond film, she played Moneypenny in the spoof 'Casino Royale' (1967), she did have sex with Cooper, who was pretending to be 007, but wasn't, so I can't count it. Barbara is German, born in what is now Liberec, Czech Republic but then was in Sudetenland, the area of Czechoslavakia that the Nazi's ceded at the start of WW2, but it was returned to the Czech's after the war, hers was a German family that had settled there, who were forced out when the war ended, they later emigrated to the USA. Barbara has had a long career, and is still going strong at the age of 78. - Actress
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Stylish, slender-framed, raven-haired Daliah Lavi was made for alluring, exotic types and princess roles with her mesmerizing beauty, chiseled cheek bones and long, flowing mane. The Israeli actress first became a star in Europe before making a dent in Hollywood as part of a wave of knockout foreign star imports that flooded Hollywood during the mid 1960s -- Claudia Cardinale, Julie Christie, Jeanne Moreau, Liv Ullmann, Melina Mercouri, Ursula Andress, Jacqueline Bisset, Romy Schneider, Elke Sommer, Senta Berger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Geneviève Bujold, Capucine, Shirley Eaton, Sylva Koscina, Barbara Bouchet, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Monica Vitti, Vanessa Redgrave and her sister Lynn Redgrave, and Catherine Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac. Like most of the others, Daliah was to be viewed as a viable sex symbol contender. In her case, she found decorative, second-tier notice via tongue-in-cheek spy spoofs, crime mysteries, erotic thrillers and rugged adventures. In retrospect, she may have fallen short of the illustrious Hollywood pedestal, but she did create a fine, if brief, stir.
She was born Daliah Levenbuch in the Moshav Shavey Zion, in the British Mandate of Palestine on October 12, 1942. The daughter of Reuben and Ruth Lewinbuk (or Levenbuch), who were of German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent, she was sent as a child to Stockholm, Sweden in the early 1950s to train in dance. She made her first film there at age 13 in the drama Hemsöborna (1955) playing the daughter of a professor. Her start in films was interrupted when she returned to Israeli following her father's death and joined the Israeli Army.
Following this period, she returned to acting and, being fluent in many European languages, began to figure in prominently with a host of French, Italian, German and English productions, often as a co-star. Such early films include a starring role in the German/Israeli co-production Brennender Sand (1960); the classic Voltaire comedy Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960) co-starring as Cunegonde alongside Jean-Pierre Cassel in the title role; and the Martine Carol drama Un soir sur la plage (1961). She continued to build up a strong European film reputation with the war drama No Time for Ecstasy (1961) co-starring Peter van Eyck; the mystery crime The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) starring Gert Fröbe and post-Tarzan Lex Barker; and made her American movie debut (earning a Golden Globe "Newcomer" Award in the process) as the second femme lead in the Kirk Douglas starer Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Daliah gained considerable ground enhancing and beautifying such foreign movie product as the ensemble French crime mystery Le jeu de la vérité (1961) (aka The Game of Truth); the German comedy satire Das schwarz-weiß-rote Himmelbett (1962); the title role of a sultry peasant girl accused of being a witch in the Italian/French co-production Il demonio (1963) (aka The Demon); the European western action film Old Shatterhand (1964) starring U.S. imports Lex Barker and Guy Madison; the continental costumed adventure Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) starring José Ferrer and Jean-Pierre Cassel as Cyrano and D'Artagnan; the German comedy thriller They're Too Much (1965) starring Curd Jürgens, and the one of the ensemble suspects in the internationally cast whodunit Ten Little Indians (1965).
The actress hit her height of international popularity with four popular English/US-based films: as "The Girl" in the epic adventure Lord Jim (1965) starring Peter O'Toole and James Mason; as Princess Natasha in the spy comedy The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966) opposite Laurence Harvey; an alluring double agent in the first Matt Helm entry The Silencers (1966) starring Dean Martin; and as a sexy enemy weapon in the phantasmagorical Bondian spoof Casino Royale (1967), starring Peter Sellers and an all-star international cast. The last-mentioned film, in particular, had American male audiences taking major notice.
Decked out in tight mini-skirts, thigh-high go-go boots and a helmet of black hair, Daliah fit in perfectly with the times, a swinging, gorgeous chick of the psychedelic 60s. She quickly lost momentum, however, cast in such overlooked films as Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967), The High Commissioner (1968) and Some Girls Do (1969). Her final film would be in the western comedy Catlow (1971) starring Yul Brynner.
In the 1970s Daliah pursued a singing career in Germany after being discovered by record producer Jimmy Bowien. A popular draw, she had a few hit songs and covered many international songwriters and artists. She was also glimpsed again on German television in the 90s for a brief spell. Daliah died on May 3, 2017, in North Carolina. Her fourth husband of 40 years, Charles Gans, survived her, along with four children, including her son Alex Gans who follow in her footsteps in film as a film editor, producer and director.Another stunning actress who was in 'Casino Royale' (1967), she played "The Detainer", who slipped the atomic pills into Jimmy Bond's drink. Daliah was a Jewish girl of German heritage born in Palestine in 1942, she became an actress and her early work was in Europe, before going to America, after a short but successful period she quit Hollywood returning to Europe where she did TV and was a Singer, but later went back to the USA, she sadly passed away recently (2017) in North Carolina, aged 74.
There were a good few other Models and Actresses I could mention from 'Casino Royale' (1967), it was loaded up with gorgeous girls in a send up of the normal Bond films, others that appeared in this and regular Bond films were:- Angela Scoular, who later became a Bond Girl for her performance in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969), Ursula Andress from 'Dr. No' (1962), Jeanne Roland (English/Burmese) who was not a Bond Girl but was also in 'You Only Live Twice' (1967) as a Masseuse and Caroline Munro (England) who was later in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977), in this she was only 18 years, 3 months and 22 days, making her the youngest, Bond woman, however still not a Bond Girl, since no relationship occurred in either film.
Other notable Models/Actresses who appeared in 'Casino Royale' (1967) were, Alexandra Bastedo (England) who was in the British TV series 'The Champions' she passed away in 2014 aged 67. Jacqueline Bisset (England) who played "Miss Goodthighs" and was in 'Bullet' with Steve McQueen, still going aged 77. Gabriella Licudi (England) now retired aged 80. Elaine Taylor (England) retired 1992, married actor Christopher Plummer and lives in England now aged 77. Anna Quayle (England) who played Frau Hoffman and was in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' sadly passed away 2019 aged 86, Tracy Reed (England) who also passed away in 2012 in Ireland aged 70, Mireille Darc, the Jag driver, who was a prolific French actor, she passed away in 2017 aged 79, and Geraldine Chaplin daughter of Charlie Chaplin who was in the Keystone Cops scenes, still going with several productions on the go, now aged 77.- Actress
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Ilse Steppat was born on 30 November 1917 in Barmen, Germany. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and The Blue Swords (1949). She was married to Max Nosseck. She died on 21 December 1969 in West Berlin, West Germany.Was Irma Bunt, the second ever Hench woman in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969) she worked at Blofelds institute, she was not a great hench-woman she did not do much fighting, but looked a bit sinister and no kind of relationship with Bond. Ilse was born in Germany during WW1 in 1917, making her 52 years old when this was released which would have made her the oldest if she had something going with Bond, but that would have been a bit of a stretch, she was not likely to be that, she looked a bit of a monster, but as you can see from her file photo, she was actually pretty good looking in her younger years, a bit of a babe. She lived through WW2 in Germany and started acting in 1947, she had an extensive career, almost all in Germany, this was her only non German film, tragically she had a heart attack and died just after the film was released, she was only 52, they wanted her to do 'Diamonds Are Forever'.- Mona Chong was born in 1945 in Singapore. She was an actress, known for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965) and Secret Agent (1964). She was married to Neville Meyer Bass. She died in 2017 in Paddington, London, England, UK.She was one of the 12 allergy patients (Models) in Blofeld's Institute, in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969), the Chinese Girl, (Mona was actually from Singapore) there was an indication that Bond might have had sex with her, with a wink, but nothing on screen (maybe it was a deleted scene) so I cannot include her as a Bond Girl, but noted here as a maybe? He did have sex with 2 of the others. Mona moved to England and started her short career there, mostly British TV, her last appearance was in 1972, unfortunately she passed away in 2017 aged 72.
Of the 9 other models in the institute, 5 were quite famous, Catherine Schell is in the main list since he did shag her, along with Angela Scoular, Joanna Lumley (English, but born in India) is still going strong at 75 and looks great, and Julie Ege (Norway) who sadly passed away of Cancer in 2008 aged 64, Sally Sheridan (USA) and Anouska Hempel (New Zealand) all who should have got more of a role, not the brief glimpses we got. Also in the film was Shakira Baksh (British Guyana) the famous advert model who married Michael Caine. - Actress
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Provocative and ever the temptress in her prime, the dark-maned, gorgeous Lana Wood was born Svetlana Gurdin on March 1, 1946, in Santa Monica, California, to Nick Gurdin (née Nikolai Zacharenko) and Maria Gurdin (known by countless aliases, usually Mary Zudilova), émigrés of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Both her parents' families fled their Russian homeland following the Communist takeover and the couple met and married in San Francisco. Lana's more famous acting sister was christened Natalia eight years earlier and the eldest girl in the family was an Armenian half-sister named Olga Tatuloff, their mother's child from a 1920s marriage.
Young Natalia (renamed Natalie Wood, out of respect to director Sam Wood) became a child star in the late 1940s, with such classics as Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and younger sis Lana would inevitably be drawn into films as a result of Natalie's overwhelming success. She made her "debut" as a baby in Natalie's "B" film Driftwood (1947) only to have her cute bit cut from the picture. Her first screen credit actually came with the John Ford classic The Searchers (1956) as a younger version of Natalie's character, and she was off and running.
In an effort to break away from her sister's looming shadow and find her own place in Hollywood, Lana set out to secure TV roles and did quite well on such popular programs as Playhouse 90 (1956), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), Dr. Kildare (1961) and The Fugitive (1963), while continuing her minor appearances in such films as Marjorie Morningstar (1958) (again with Natalie), Five Finger Exercise (1962) and the The Girls on the Beach (1965).
In 1965 she earned a contract at Twentieth Century-Fox and was cast in her first television series, The Long, Hot Summer (1965), playing the Southern belle role Lee Remick had played in the 1958 film (The Long, Hot Summer (1958)). Better yet was her 1966 breakthrough role as hash-slinging waitress "Sandy Webber" on the original prime-time soap opera smash Peyton Place (1964), which she played for two seasons. Unlike the glamorous and refined Natalie, Lana developed an earthier "bad girl" persona. Her character femmes bore typical hard-luck stories--tarnished girls from the wrong side of the tracks who were often more trouble than they were worth. Off-screen, she married Peyton Place (1964) co-star Steve Oliver, who played her abusive husband and jailbird "Lee Webber." The marriage lasted approximately one month.
After Peyton Place (1964), Lana continued to exude sex appeal in such films as For Singles Only (1968) and Scream Free! (1969), a drug tale that reunited Natalie's West Side Story (1961) co-stars Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn. She kept her name alive on TV as well, making the guest rounds on The Wild Wild West (1965), Bonanza (1959), The Felony Squad (1966) and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967).
In April 1971, Lana posed for Playboy in an attempt to gain added exposure. It worked. A major career boost presented itself in the form of producer Albert R. Broccoli (nicknamed "Cubby"), who caught the spread and offered her the role of Bondian femme fatale "Plenty O'Toole" in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) opposite Sean Connery. Following all this sexy publicity, Lana somehow nabbed an unexpected role in the Disney romp Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972).
Although she stayed fairly active throughout the next decade or so with such TV movies as Black Water Gold (1970), QB VII (1974) and Nightmare in Badham County (1976), and the films Grayeagle (1977) and Demon Rage (1982), her star began to diminish.
Marriages during the 1970s included a union with actor/co-star Richard Smedley, whom she met on the set of A Place Called Today (1972). They produced her only child, daughter Evan, in 1974. She later married producer Allan Balter after meeting him during the filming of Captain America (1979). Six marriages would come and go before 1980.
In the mid-'80s she appeared for a time on the daytime soap opera Capitol (1982) but made a decision to move away from the acting arena after this period. Following the tragic drowning death of sister Natalie in 1981, Lana penned the controversial tell-all book "Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister". What was meant as a candid, caring and cathartic expose on Lana's part was denounced by both critics and family alike as self-serving and hurtful. Later years included behind-the-camera work as a producer, which included co-producing the ABC-TV special The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004). She also had her own casting company at one point.
After an extended absence, Lana was seen again on the screen into the millennium. Independent features include Deadly Renovations (2010), Donors (2014), Bestseller (2015), Killing Poe (2016), Subconscious Reality (2016), Wild Faith (2018) and The Marshal (2019). A devoted animal lover, the still-stunning grandmother-of-three occasionally appears at celebrity conventions and continues to work in films.Lana Wood (sister of the infamous Natalie Wood) played Plenty O'Toole in 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971), she picked Bond up in a Casino in Vegas, but despite his intentions, Bond did not shag her, as some gangsters threw her out of the Hotel window, so I cannot count her as a Bond Girl.
There was bad blood between Lana and Jill St John, who was the main Bond girl in the film, apart from the friction during the film, (Connery was shagging both Lana and Jill in real life, whilst he was still married to Diane Cilento), Jill married Lana's sister Natalie's ex-husband - Robert Wagner (still happily married) who is suspected of Murdering Natalie and which Lana believes it to be the case, a story worthy of a film on its own. Lana is American but of Ukrainian descent. and still going strong in her acting career, now aged 75.
Also in 'Diamonds Are Forever' are two women bodyguards who had a bit of a fight with Bond, Bambi and Thumper played by Lola Larson and Trina Parks, they were not Bond Girls nor proper Hench-women, but worthy of a mention, unusually they did not die. Both are American, Trina was born in 1947 and is still working. I don't know about Lola.- Actress
She played Chew Mee in 'The Man With The Golden Gun'(1974), she was swimming naked in a pool when Bond walks by and flirts with her and she invites him in, presumably for a shag, but Bond is a bit busy, so she's not a Bond Girl, but worth a mention, particularly as she looked well shaggable. I don't know anything about Francoise, she is a bit of a mystery, she is oriental but has a French name, perhaps she might be a Vietnamese or Cambodian? This was her only acting role.
2 other notable young Asian women in 'The Man With The Golden Gun' were Hip's nieces, the 2 kung fu artistes, Nara (Qiu Yuen) and Cha (Joie Vejjajiva), I don't know much about Joie, she is a Thai who has only had 3 roles, and moved to Australia. However Qiu is a different matter, she is a real martial arts performer and has had a successful career in Hong Kong and Chinese Kung Fu Movies, she is now 71 and still performing.- Actress
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Olga Bisera was born on 26 May 1944 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an actress and producer, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Super Fly T.N.T. (1973) and Castle Keep (1969).Olga played Fekesh's secretary, Felicca (not named in Film) in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977), Bond tried to seduce her trying to get info, but was interrupted by bad guys, who killed her my mistake, so she didn't make it into my hall of fame. Olga was born in Mostar, Yugoslavia, now in Bosnia & Herzegovina but lived in Italy for most of the time, working in Italian cinema, she retired from it in 1982, now aged 77.- Actress
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Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British newspaper The Evening News and won. This led to modeling chores, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at age 17. She moved to London to pursue top modeling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and television commercials while there.
Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale (1967) and Where's Jack? (1969). One of her many gorgeous photo ads earned her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark's daughter in the comedy/western A Talent for Loving (1973). She first met husband/actor Judd Hamilton filming this movie but they later divorced. Also in 1969, she became the commercial poster girl for "Lamb's Navy Rum", a gig that lasted ten years. She had no lines as Vincent Price's dead wife in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) which, in turn, led to a Hammer Studios contract and such low-budget spine-tinglers as Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) and Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974). More noticeable roles came outside the studio as the slave girl/love interest in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), the princess in At the Earth's Core (1976), and a lethal Bond girl in the top-notch The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Her voluptuous looks sustained her for a bit longer but the quality of her roles did not improve with higher visibility. Later 70's and 80's roles included the lowergrade Starcrash (1978), Maniac (1980) and Slaughter High (1986), the last-mentioned written and directed by second husband George Dugdale, whom she married in 1990. He died in 2020.
Following her marriage, she was less seen. The septuagenarian continued to perform sporadically on camera, primarily in England and often in the horror genre. Subsequent lead and supporting movie roles have included Heaven's a Drag (1994), Domestic Strangers (1996), Flesh for the Beast (2003), Vampyres (2015), Cute Little Buggers (2017) and House of the Gorgon (2019) which also featured her daughter, actress Georgina Dugdale.Was in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977) as Stromberg's assistant Naomi, when she came to pick up Bond and Amasova, Bond was licking his lips at her, but he never got the opportunity to do her and later killed her with a missile from his underwater car. Caroline has been in a Bond movie before, the spoof comedy 'Casino Royale' (1967), but it was a very small part, she is English and has a good career, mostly doing horror movies, and still going strong.- Blanche Ravalec was born on 19 September 1954. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), Une maison, une histoire (1980) and Diabolik (1997).Not a love interest for Bond, but for the Henchman- Jaws (Richard Kiel), Jaws met her in Rio in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977) and it was instant attraction, it was unique in Bond movies so worth entry, she also had a lovely pair of tits, it was a non speaking role. Blanche is French and has had a good career, mostly in France, her last film was in 2017. Richard Kiel died in 2014 aged 74. I don't know much of what happened to Blanche, but I am fairly sure she is still alive and now in her 60's.
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Lynn-Holly Johnson was born on 13 December 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and director, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and Ice Castles (1978). She has been married to Kelly James Givens since 12 November 1994. They have two children.She played Bibi Dahl in 'For Your Eyes Only' (1981), an ice skater in a side story issue which did not add much to the film, Bi Bi was better and more fun, than the main Bond girl, she jumped into Bonds bed naked and wanted him to shag her, but Bond chucked her out so I cannot make her a Bond Girl.
Moore said he would not do it if he was supposed to have shagged her because she was too young, she was 22 years and 7 months old at release. There have been a few other Bond Girls who were younger than her, including Jane Seymour as Solitaire in 'Live And Let Die' (1973) who was only 22 years and 5 months old at release, when Roger Moore as Bond shagged her several times (although he was younger himself, but still 24 years older than Jane) so he is being a bit hypocritical, and she was only 1 year younger than Carole Bouquet (Melina), and Bond shagged Melina several times. Lynn was an actual champion Ice Skater in America and had a good film career, she retired in 2010 to concentrate on her family.
In the film, Bibi had a coach - Jacoba Brink, a former Ice Skater herself, played by Jill Benett, an English woman born in Malaysia, unlike Lynn, Jill was never an ice skater, but she had an extensive career, however she committed suicide in 1990 aged 58 to bring all that to a halt.- Actress
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Famke Janssen was born November 5, 1964, in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, and has two other siblings. Moving to America in the 1980s, she modeled for Chanel in New York. Later, taking a break from modeling, she attended Columbia University, majoring in literature.
This model-turned-actress broke into Hollywood in the early 1990s. Her first film was Fathers & Sons (1992). Later she became James Bond's enemy in GoldenEye (1995). Her career has bloomed since then with her starring in such films as House on Haunted Hill (1999), Hide and Seek (2005), a recurring role on FX's Nip/Tuck (2003), and the blockbuster movies X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).Probably one of the most central sexy female characters not to end up a Bond Girl (in my criteria), she plays Xenia Onatopp in 'Goldeneye' (1995), the sexy modern hench-woman, although he does meet her a couple of times, and she gets to grips with Bond on a these occasions, but no actual sex, she is just trying to kill him with a squeeze from her thighs, Bond kills her near the end though. Famke is a very good Dutch actress and the best looking in the film, she has had a stellar career, and still going strong, currently in several productions.- Actress
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Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She is a ten-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for A Fine Romance (1981) in which she appeared with her husband, Michael Williams, and Best Supporting Actress in A Handful of Dust (1988) and A Room with a View (1985). She received an ACE award for her performance in the television series Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985). She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970, a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1988 and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2005.Seasoned, celebrated and top actress, Judi got the role of M in the Bond franchise, and kept it for 7 movies, and because of her great acting was the only actor kept from the transformation from the Brosnan era to the Craig era, she started in 'Goldeneye' (1995). More of a Mother figure to Bond as his boss, so no chance of there being any sex, so not a Bond Girl but if anyone was suitable for a special mention, it is her. Judi has had a stellar career and celebrated as one of the best actors, she has just finished her latest role. When she (M) died at the end of 'Skyfall' (2012) she was 77, so the oldest Bond woman in an actual film, rather than Lotte Lenya who was 65 when she did 'From Russia With Love' (1963) but born in 1898, but if she lives a few more years, in 2029 she will become the oldest ever, beating Honor Blackman who died at 94.
Also in 'Goldeneye' was Minnie Driver, one of my favourite actresses, she did not even meet Bond, she played a cameo as Irina (Zukovsky's mistress), who was performing the song 'Stand By Your Man' in a cat wailing plummy Russian accent (dubbed), so not a Bond Girl in any way and for such a short role hardly worth a listing in this, but I thought I would mention her as its one of my favourite bits of the film.- Actress
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Samantha's early theatre work includes repertory seasons at Coventry, Edinburgh, Derby, and Bristol and 'Never in My Life 'at the Soho Poly in London. After appearing in Kenneth Branagh's production of 'Romeo and Juliet' she went on to West End productions of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', 'Man of the Moment', 'Three Tall Women' and 'Much Ado About Nothing' which was directed by Judi Dench. As a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company she acted in 'A Winters Tale' and 'As You Like It' She made her film debut in 'Eric the Viking' Television work includes 'Inspector Morse', 'Rumpole of the Bailey', 'Under the Moon', 'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'The Ruby Ring'Played Moneypenny during the 4 Brosnan films from 'Goldeneye' (1989), but still no sex with Bond, despite her more direct hints and blunt sexual innuendo, she was a bit more spirited than the original. At the end of 'Die Another Day' she had a virtual reality sexual encounter with Bond, interrupted by Q before it got too steamy, but since it was not real, and came only from her side, I cannot count her as a Bond Girl. When 'Die Another Day' was released she became one of the oldest at 41 years and 7 days old.
2 other women played Moneypenny that I have not already mentioned, Pamela Salem played her in the rogue 'Never Say Never Again' (1983) but apart from amorous looks, no sex. She has done a lot of British TV and still going at 71.
And in the 2 Dalton films, Caroline Bliss was Moneypenny, but she had only a few seconds on screen, I don't know why they even bothered putting the character in both these films, as she did not get to say or do anything meaningful and did not add anything to the film. However Caroline was the best looking Moneypenny (in the main franchise), but has only had a middling acting career, she seems to have retired her last role was in 1996.
In 'Die Another Day' (2002) was a much more famous woman - Madonna, she played Verity, it was only a cameo appearance, but worth noting.- Actress
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Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born 27 July 1968) is an Italian actress who has featured in many films and television series since 1990. She has also worked as a producer, screenwriter and model. Cucinotta was born in Messina, Province of Messina, Sicily, Italy. She is well known in Italy as a movie and television actress, but internationally she is best known for her roles in Il Postino and as the Bond girl, credited as the Cigar Girl, in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.A stunning beauty she was the best looking in the film, but no sex with Bond, she was the hit-woman in the intro to 'The World is Not Enough' (1999), who Bond chases along the Thames River before she ends up killing herself in the hot-air balloon over the Millennium Dome in London, she is named as the 'Cigar Girl' in the credits, I don't know why? Maria Grazia Cucinotta, an Italian born in Sicily, and has an extensive career mostly in Italian film and TV, she has currently got a few productions on the go, now aged 53 and still looking stunning.- Caterina Murino was born on September 15, 1977, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. In 1996 she took fourth place in the Miss Italy contest. Then she moved to Milan, where she began working as a model in commercials for MasterCard, Swatch, Mercedes-Benz and Nescafe, among other gigs. From 1999-2000 she studied acting at the Scuola di Cinema e Teatro di Francesca de Sapio in Italy.
In 1999 she made her acting debut in a stage production of "Richard III" and appeared in several Italian-language plays. In 2002 she began her film and television career with bit parts in Italian, German and French productions. Her breakthrough came in 2004, when she co-starred opposite Jean Reno in the French comedy The Corsican File (2004).
She is trilingual, speaking French, English and Italian. She is a versatile actress and a good athlete. Her talents include singing, dancing tango, flamenco and oriental dances, as well as horseback riding. She co-starred as Solange, one of three Bond girls, opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006).Played Solange in 'Casino Royale' (2006) , after cleaning out her boyfriend in the Casino, Bond seduced her in order to obtain info, there was no romance, just looks, and he did not get around to shagging her, he left to pursue her boyfriend so not a Bond Girl in my criteria, Caterina had a lovely body but an odd face with a jutting chin, she is a Sardinian who has already had a good career in acting, and currently involved in several productions. - Actress
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Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian-French actress and model, went from sharing a cramped flat with her aunt, uncle, grandparents and cousin to starring as a Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig.
She was born Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko on November 14, 1979, in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, Marina Alyabysheva, divorced her father, Konstantin Kurylenko, soon after her birth. After the divorce her mother struggled to survive as an art teacher. Young Olga was brought up by her mother and her grandmother, Raisa. During her youth Olga had the humbling experience of living in poverty; she had no choice but to wear rags and had to darn the holes on her sweater. During her years in Ukraine she studied art and languages and spent seven years studying piano at a local school of music in Berdyansk. She also went to a ballet studio until 13.
At age 13 Olga and her mother made a trip to Moscow. There she was spotted by an agent, who approached her at a subway station and offered her a job as a model. Initially Olga's mother was suspicious, but she checked the agent's credentials and eventually allowed Olga to accept training as a model in Moscow, which turned out to be a good career choice.
By age 16 she was ready for the next step. She moved to Paris, learned French in six months and was signed by the Madison agency. At age 18 she appeared on the cover of Glamour, and in short order graced the covers of Elle, Madame Figaro, Marie Claire, and Vogue. She also became the face of Lejaby lingerie, Bebe clothing, Clarins and Helena Rubinstein cosmetic companies.
In 1999 Olga married French photographer Cedric Van Mol, but divorced him 3-1/2 years later. One day Olga presented herself to an acting agency. Eventually she swapped the catwalk for the movie screen, and her acting career took off. In 2005 she made her film debut as "Iris", a sensual beauty, in The Ring Finger (2005), by director Diane Bertrand.
Olga's cinematic roles have been notably steamy, and her natural beauty and explicit nudity attracted the attention of the male audiences. She appeared opposite Elijah Wood in Paris, I Love You (2006) and as "Sofia" in The Snake (2006), then co-starred as Russian beauty "Nika Boronina" opposite Timothy Olyphant in Hitman (2007). She also appeared as "Mina Harud" in the indie surveillance-thriller Tyranny (2008). On Christmas Eve 2007, Olga was offered to play what will become her biggest hit: co-starring as "Camille", the Bond girl, opposite Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace (2008), a sequel to Casino Royale (2006).
With the international success as Bond Girl, Olga also made appearances on various TV productions in Russia and Ukraine. In 2012, Olga Kurylenko was cast as Julia, supporting role in the Sci-Fi adventure Oblivion (2013) opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman.The woman who most people think is nailed on to be a Bond Girl, she had the main role of Camille alongside Bond in 'Quantum of Solace' (2008), she was working with the baddies but only to get at the General who killed her parents, despite their closeness, there was not really any sexual interaction, so I don't consider her a true Bond Girl, the main Bond Girl who isn't a Bond Girl you could say. But Olga was definitely the most attractive in the film, she is from the Ukraine, born when it was part of USSR. She has already had a stellar career and has several productions on the go.
Also in the film was Oona Chaplin (not the former wife of Charlie, his grand-daughter), she played the waiter in the Hotel who the general was trying to rape, not a Bond girl, but worth a mention and she did look beautiful.- Actress
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Stephanie Sigman is a Mexican actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2011 crime drama film Miss Bala. She has gone on to appear in Pioneer (2013), Spectre (2015), Going Under (2016), and Annabelle: Creation (2017). On television, Sigman starred as Valeria Vélez in the first and second seasons of Netflix crime thriller, Narcos (2015).
Sigman was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, to a Mexican mother and an American father, Lee Sigman, a New York Yankees scout from Kansas. She is a U.S. citizen through her father.
Sigman began her career appearing on Mexican television, before making her film debut in Rio de Oro. In 2011, she played the leading role of Laura Guerrero in the Mexican crime drama film, Miss Bala. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Sigman was nominated for a Dublin Film Critics' Circle Award in 2011 for her performance in film. The following year, she played Catalina Aguado in the Canadian documentary film Flight of the Butterflies. In 2013, Sigman co-starred in the Norwegian thriller Pioneer.
In 2013, Sigman played the leading role in the USA Network drama pilot The Arrangement opposite Bryan Greenberg. It not was ordered to series. Later that year, she was cast in a recurring role on the FX crime drama series, The Bridge. She also starred in the Arctic Monkeys music video for "Snap Out of It" in 2014. In 2015, Sigman played Valeria Vélez, character based on Virginia Vallejo, in the Netflix crime thriller, Narcos.
In 2015, Sigman appeared in the James Bond film, Spectre, becoming the second Mexican actress to play a Bond girl after Linda Christian first played the role of Valerie Mathis in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale. She later was cast as a female lead in the action comedy Going Under, and well as War on Everyone.
In 2016, Sigman had a recurring role as Monica Ava during the second season of the ABC anthology drama series, American Crime created by John Ridley. Ridley later cast Sigman in the leading role as Presence Foster, the former Army veteran who finds herself as unlicensed Private Investigator, in the ABC detective drama pilot, Presence.
In 2017, Sigman began playing Jessica Cortez, captain and commanding officer of the LAPD Metropolitan Division in S.W.A.T..
Sigman starred as Sister Charlotte in Annabelle: Creation, opposite Miranda Otto. The horror film was released on 11 August 2017.She played Estrella (not named in the film) at the start of 'Spectre' (2015), she was Bond's companion in the Day of The Dead festival in Mexico, they went back to a room, presumably to have sex, but Bond left her by jumping out of a window to search for bad guys
It is implied that he may have already had her, but there is no scene or dialogue to indicate whether he had done already, or was in the process of trying to shag her for the first time, he may have just been using her to get to that room to be able to continue his mission, and he was not shown to come back to finish the job, so I cannot count her as a main Bond Girl, but she was the most beautiful in the film. Born in Mexico she fit the part well, but she now lives in the States and has already had a good career so far.- Actress
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Ana de Armas was born in Cuba on April 30, 1988. At the age of 14 (2002) she began her studies at the National Theatre School of Havana, where she graduated after 4 years. At the age of 16 (2004) she made her first film, Virgin Rose (2006), directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. A few titles came after until she moved to Spain, where she continued her film career, and started on TV. In 2014 she moved to Los Angeles. She has appeared in films such as War Dogs (2016), Hands of Stone (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).She plays CIA Agent - Paloma in 'No Time To Die' (2021), and is very sexy, but she was not in the film long and no sex with Bond, so not a main Bond Girl as per my list. Paloma was played by Ana de Armas, born in Cuba, but now making her fame in the USA, and is in great demand.
In 'No Time To Die' Bond was monogamous, only having a relationship with Madeleine (Léa Seydoux), following on from 'Spectre' (2015), so any other woman in the film would not make the main list.- Actress
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Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She plays the leading role of Rosaline in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed.
Lynch is a graduate of the BA Acting course at ArtsEd drama school in London. She made her film debut in the 2011 drama film Fast Girls. She later co-starred in the BBC television film The 7.39. On television, she also has appeared in Silent Witness, Death in Paradise, and was regular cast member on the short-lived BBC comedy Crims in 2015.
In 2016, Lynch was cast as leading character, Rosaline, in the American period drama series Still Star-Crossed produced by Shonda Rhimes.
Lynch is of Jamaican descent.Lashana played the new 007 -Nomi in 'No Time To Die (2021), despite this role she did not have any relationship with Bond, who was otherwise embroiled with his on/off girlfriend Madeleine and his unknown daughter, she did not have a great role either. Lashana is English but of Jamaican descent, born in London, she has not had a great career, mostly as a character on TV episodes, first in the UK now in the USA, but she is still young and could go far.
The only other female role (not including the young Madeleine or his daughter), was Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), but no sexuality or relationship with her, she only briefly appeared in the film, probably as a continuity exercise.