Bond: \"That gun, it looks more fitting for a woman.\"
\r\nLargo: \"You know much about guns, Mr. Bond?\"
\r\nBond: \"No, but I know a little about women.\"<\/i><\/p>
The Bond girls are as essential to the 007 movies as a megalomaniac villain or a nifty gadget. Invariably a character or actress portraying a love interest or sex object, they can either make your career (Famke Janssen) or break it (Tanya Roberts).<\/p>
To spice things up their names have often been double entendres, such as - ooh missus - Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, May Day, Xenia Onatopp, and Holly Goodhead. Check out our gallery of the Bond Girls who raised male temperature over the last half century....<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Dr-No-15.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Dr. No"},{"captionHeading":"DR NO: HONEY RYDER (Ursula Andress)","caption":"
Honey Ryder: “What are you doing here? Looking for shells?
\r\nBond: “No, I’m just looking”.<\/i> <\/p>
The quintessential Bond girl, a statuesque seashell collector, stepped out of the Caribbean surf in a white bikini on the shores of Dr No’s island Crab Key. She believed that the evil fiend was involved in the death of her father and joined 007 in his bid to stop Dr No’s bid to cripple the US Space Race. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> Swiss actress and Playboy centrefold Andress – whose stunning entry was mimicked by Halle Berry in Die Another Day - was overdubbed for the role because her accent was so strong. Other parts included Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley and Clash of the Titans opposite Laurence Olivier. Bizarelly Andress – who dated Marlon Brando and James Dean – also appeared in art maverick Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cyle.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Dr-No-22.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Dr. No"},{"captionHeading":"FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: ROMANOVA TATIANA (Daniela Bianchi)","caption":"
Romanova: “I think my mouth is too big”.
\r\nBond: “No, it’s just the right size. For me, that is.”<\/i> <\/p>
The wannabe Russian ballerina had to drop out of the Bolshoi after she grew an inch too tall...only to become a corporal in Soviet Army Intelligence. Threatened with death by SPECTRE’s Rosa Klebb, she agrees to a honeytrap plot to snare 007. However, she falls for the smooth-talking spy and ends up helping in his plan to seize a priceless cryptograph machine. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The Rome-born actress was the first runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest. Due to her strong Italian accent she was dubbed by House of Eliott actress Barbara Jefford. Bianchi was the first of the Bond girls to never replicate the success of 007 and wound up married the president of an Italian cargo shipping company in 1985. So, not exactly an unhappy ending.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/From-Russia-With-Love-19.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"From Russia With Love"},{"captionHeading":"GOLDFINGER: PUSSY GALORE (Honor Blackman)","caption":"
Pussy: “You can turn off the charm. I’m immune.”<\/i> <\/p>
A frontrunner in the grand tradition of Bond girls with suggestive names, the brassy blonde leads the all-female aerial acrobatic troupe – Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus. Goldfinger’s personal pilot, she sides with Bond when he tells her the megalomaniac plans to use her girls to spray lethal nerve gas around Fort Knox during Operation Grand Slam. In the original novel, she led a gang of lesbian cat burglars, The Cement Mixers. <\/p>
The Actress: <\/b>The British actress had enjoyed a successful career prior to Bond as Cathy Gale in TV’s The Avengers. A successful star after her appearance alongside 007, subsequent roles included Veronica Barton in TV’s Never The Twain. She also played Professor Lasky in Dr Who and had a small role in Bridget Jones’s Diary. Blackman also joined Coronation Street for a wife-swapping storyline.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Goldfinger-19.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Goldfinger"},{"captionHeading":"THUNDERBALL: DOMINO (Claudine Auger)","caption":"
Domino: “What sharp little eyes you’ve got”
\r\nBond: Wait ‘til you get to my teeth.”<\/i> <\/p>
The mistress of SPECTRE number two Emilio Largo, Domino joins forces with Bond when she discovers that her lover killed her NATO pilot brother during the appropriation of two nuclear warheads under the sea.<\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The part originally went to Italian actress Dominetta Petacchi but Auger – a former Princess France Monde – impressed the producers so much they re-wrote the role for her. Nikki van der Zyl, who overdubbed Ursula Andress in Dr No, performed the same job for Auger. During a solid career in European film, in 1971, she starred with two other Bond girls – Barbara Bach and Barbara Bouchet - in an Italian mystery feature.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Thunderball-14.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Thunderball"},{"captionHeading":"YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: KISSY SUZUKI (Mie Hama)","caption":"
Bond: “But we must keep up appearances. We’re on our honeymoon.\"
\r\nKissy: \"No honeymoon. This is business.” <\/i> <\/p>
The Japanese intelligence agent poses as Bond’s wife so her can infiltrate Blofeld’s fiendish plot to pit that Americans and Russians against one another by seizing rockets in space. She joins 007 in the assault on the villain’s lair in a dormant Japanese volcano. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The former Tokyo bus conductress was already a household name in Japan for monster movies such as King Kong Escapes when she was cast as Kissy (she was originally to play the character of Aki, who was played by Akiko Wakabayashi). In the June 1967 issue of Playboy she posed nude with several other YOLT actresses as “007’s Oriental Eyefuls.” Now an active environmentalist.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/You-Only-Live-Twice-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"You Only Live Twice"},{"captionHeading":"OHMSS: TERESA ‘TRACY’ DI VICENZO (Diana Rigg)","caption":"
Tracy “Why do you persist in rescuing me, Mr Bond?\"
\r\nBond: \"It’s becoming quite a habit, isn’t it?\"<\/i> <\/p>
The only woman to marry Bond, Tracy is the daughter of a Corsican mobster and the widow of an Italian count who died in a road accident. When Bond saves her from a suicide bid in Portugal, she winds up rescuing him from Blofeld’s henchmen during a blizzard in Switzerland. She is killed with a single bullet to the head from Blofeld’s No2 Irma Bunt, hours after her marriage to Bond. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b>The Yorkshire-born actress was raised in India (she still speaks fluent Hindi) and – like Bond girl Honor Blackman – was a success in The Avengers as Emma Peel before 007 came calling. She has denied rumours that she didn’t get on with Bond co-star George Lazenby (it was claimed she ate garlic-laced food before love scenes) and has enjoyed a successful career on the stage. She’s subsequently appeared in Ricky Gervais’ Extras and the feature drama The Painted Veil.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/On-Her-Majesty-Service-15.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"On Her Majesty Service"},{"captionHeading":"DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: TIFFANY CASE (Jill St John)","caption":"
Bond: “Weren’t you a blonde when I came in?
\r\nTiffany: \"Could be.\"
\r\nBond: “I tend to notice little things like that.”<\/i> <\/p>
Tiffany – so called because she was born on the first floor of the jeweller Tiffany & Co while her mother shopped for a wedding ring – is a diamond smuggler who joins forces with Bond when she realises she’s being targeted by Blofeld’s henchmen. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> A child prodigy, St John was admitted to the University of California aged just 14 (she has an IQ of 162). Career highlights include the role of Barbara Tuttle in Jerry Lewis’s Who’s Minding The Store. Her four husbands have included Jack Jones and current hubby Robert Wagner and she’s also dated Henry Kissinger, Frank Sinatra and Bond co-star Sean Connery.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Diamonds-Are-Forever-2.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Diamonds Are Forever"},{"captionHeading":"LIVE AND LET DIE: SOLITAIRE (Jane Seymour)","caption":"
Solitaire: “Is there time for lesson number three?
\r\nBond: “Of course. There’s no sense going out half-cocked.”<\/i> <\/p>
Clairvoyant-by-appointment to drugs mobster and corrupt Caribbean politician Mr Big, Solitaire was initiated into voodoo when a child on Haiti. After losing her virginity to Bond, her powers desert her…and Mr Big seeks revenge. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> Starting with an uncredited role in Richard Attenborough’s Oh! What A Lovely War in 1969, Seymour’s first major part was in the war drama The Only Way. She starred in TV’s The Onedin Line and then landed the Bond role. Seymour has subsequently found fame as Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman and in the series Smallville. Radiohead recorded their album OK Computer at her Somerset home.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Live-And-Let-Die-8.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Live And Let Die"},{"captionHeading":"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: MARY GOODNIGHT (Britt Ekland)","caption":"
Mary: “My hard-to-get act didn’t last very long, did it?” <\/i><\/p>
The ditzy British staff intelligence officer has designs on Bond but suffers a series of indignities (in one scene she hides in a wardrobe while Bond makes love to Scaramanga’s girlfriend) before coming good by helping retrieve the Solex Agitator device and falling into Bond’s arms. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> Initially famous thanks to her whirlwind romance with Peter Sellers (who ended up dying of a heart attack), the Swedish actress went on to star in the classic British thriller Get Carter and the cult film The Whicker Man. She had a well-publicised fling with singer Rod Stewart and went on to date younger men, including Bay City Roller Les McKeown and also fostered an obsession with Duran Duran keyboard player Nick Rhodes.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-Man-With-A-Golden-Gun-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Man With A Golden Gun"},{"captionHeading":"THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: ANYA AMASOVA (Barbara Bach)","caption":"
Anya: “Then when this mission is over…I will kill you.” <\/i><\/p>
The KGB major and Bond forge an uneasy alliance as they chase a roll of microfilm which contains information about a submarine tracking system. To complicate matters, Bond is the killer of her lover...but 007's chivalry in rescuing her from the villainous shipping magnate Stromberg means a period of saucy détente. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The New York cop’s daughter enjoyed an early career as a model before marrying (and divorcing) an Italian businessman she met on a plane. She went on to star in a series of Italian movies and after Bond she starred in the thriller Force 10 From Navarone. In 1980 she met her husband, ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, on the set of Caveman. Retired as an actress, she set up an addiction recovery programme with Eric Clapton and George Harrison.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-16.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Spy Who Loved Me"},{"captionHeading":"MOONRAKER: HOLLY GOODHEAD (Lois Chiles)","caption":"
Holly: “Take me round the world one more time…”
\r\nBond: Why not?<\/i> <\/p>
The CIA agent and fully-trained astronaut works undercover for the Drax Corporation investigating its nefarious plans to wipe out mankind. She comes up against Bond following the disappearance of one of the Moonraker shuttles…but does not trust him until he saves her life on the Rio De Janeiro cable car. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> Born into a Texan oil dynasty, she first became a model and then starred with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. She had been approached to star in The Spy Who Loved Me but was taking a break from acting at the time. Subsequent appearances have included Broadcast News and Creepshow 2. She once said being a Bond girl “is a fun way to be remembered.”<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Moonraker-21.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Moonraker"},{"captionHeading":"FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: MELINA HAVELOCK (Carole Bouquet)","caption":"
Melina: I’m half Greek and Greek women like Elektra always avenge their loved ones.”<\/i> <\/p>
The daughter of a couple working for British Intelligence, Melina witnesses their murder by Cuban hitman Hector Gonzales. Bond is also sent to investigate the killing and witnesses her taking out Gonzales with a crossbow. Joining forces they track down the criminal mastermind behind the assassinations – Artistotle Kristatos. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The former Chanel model and fiancée of Gerard Depardieu first attracted attention in Luis Bunel’s surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977. After Bond, she appeared in a succession of European movies including Nemo, New York Stories, Trop belle pour toi and L’Enfer.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/For-Your-Eyes-Only-6.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"For Your Eyes Only"},{"captionHeading":"OCTOPUSSY: OCTOPUSSY (Maud Adams)","caption":"
Octopussy: “Good evening, I wondered when you might arrive.”<\/i> <\/p>
Named after her father’s love of octopi, she is an accomplished jewel smuggler who runs a secret order of bandits, running her own circus and living on a floating palace. She helps villain Kamal Khan obtain a priceless Faberge egg…but finds herself siding with Bond as a thank-you for his honourable treatment of her father years before. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The former Miss Sweden guest-starred in the American TV series Hawaii Five-0 and Kojak before landing the role of Scaramanga’s mistress Andrea Anders in Man With The Golden Gun. She was one of the few actresses to land a second Bond role, which she did with Octopussy. After Bond, she starred in TV shows such as Mission Impossible, Walker, Texas Ranger and That ‘70s Show. She was also an extra in A View To A Kill.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Octopussy-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Octopussy"},{"captionHeading":"A VIEW TO A KILL: STACEY SUTTON (Tanya Roberts)","caption":"
Stacey: “I’d sell everything and live in a tent before I give up.”<\/i> <\/p>
The oil heiress-turned-geologist is determined to wrest back control of her her father’s company Sutton Oil after it was grabbed by Max Zorin in a rigged shares scam. Working for the government, she uncovers Zorin’s madcap scheme to trigger an earthquake and flood Silicon Valley. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> As a 15-year-old she quit school and hitch-hiked across the USA before returning to New York to work as a model and dance teacher. After marrying a screenwriter, she took up acting and made her debut in the thriller Forced Entry. In 1980, she replaced Shelley Hack in Charlie’s Angels and went on to pose nude for Playboy. After Bond she specialistd in erotic thrillers on cable and adverts for timeshare companies.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Bond-A-View-to-a-Kill-02-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Bond - A View to a Kill 02"},{"captionHeading":"THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS: KARA MILOVY (Maryam D’Abo)","caption":"
Bond: “You didn’t think I’d miss this performance did you?
\r\nKara: “Oh James.”<\/i> <\/p>
The Czech cellist and lover of a rogue KGB general allies herself with Bond when she discovers she’s been set up. It turns out her duplicitous boyfriend is in league with American arms dealer Brad Whitaker. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The London-born actress made her debut as a French au pair who becomes an alien breeding chamber in the horror film Xtro. After starring in The Living Daylights she did a Playboy cover and went on to star in the cult hit Leon The Pig Farmer. Subsequent appearances included L’Enfer and she also wrote the book Bond Girls Are Forever detailing her experiences. She is married to Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-Living-Daylights-2.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Living Daylights"},{"captionHeading":"LICENCE TO KILL: PAM BOUVIER (Carey Lowell)","caption":"
Pam: “If it hadn’t been for me your ass would have been nailed to the wall.” <\/i><\/p>
The CIA contract pilot is trying to contain drug lord Franz Sanchez’s operations in the Caribbean. Bond hires her to fly him to the villain’s HQ in Isthmus and she poses as his secretary. However, their relationship is strained by Bond’s desire for Sanchez’s mistress Lupe Lamora. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The American-born former model followed Bond with roles in Sleepless in Seattle, Leaving Las Vegas and the TV drama Law & Order. Following her first marriage to actor Griffin Dunne, she got hitched to Richard Gere in 2002.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Licence-To-Kill-10.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Licence To Kill"},{"captionHeading":"GOLDENEYE: Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco)","caption":"
Natalya: “How can you be so cold?”
\r\nBond: “It’s what keeps me alive.”
\r\nNatalya: “No, it’s what keeps you alone.”<\/i> <\/p>
The lone survivor of an attack on a Russian weapons research centre in Siberia, the computer progammer hooks up with Bond and helps in hunt for treasonous Russian General Ouromov and turncoat British Intelligence agent Alec Trevelyan. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The Polish-born former model followed Bond with roles in the Sly Stallone thriller Vertical Limit and the 2002 sci-fi thriller Reign of Fire. However, she also turned down the lead roles in LA Confidential and The Mask of Zorro. She also enjoyed limited success as a pop singer.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Golden-Eye-3.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Golden Eye"},{"captionHeading":"TOMORROW NEVER DIES: WAI LIN (Michelle Yeoh)","caption":"
Wai: “Don’t get any ideas, Mr Bond
\r\nBond: “I wouldn’t dream of it.”<\/i> <\/p>
The crack Chinese agent hooks up with Bond, posing as a news reporter to probe suspicions that renegade Chinese General Chang may be allying himself with maverick media mogul Elliot Carver. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The Malaysian-Chinese actress insists on doing her own stunts, most noticeably in the action drama Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. An injury prevented her pursuing a career as a ballerina but she did land the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant. She worked with action heroes such as Jackie Chan before beating Natasha Henstridge to the role of Wai Lin. Subsequent Hollywood appearances have included Memoirs of a Geisha, Sunshine and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Tomorrow-Never-Dies-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Tomorrow Never Dies"},{"captionHeading":"THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: DR CHRISTMAS JONES (Denise Richards)","caption":"
Bond: “I was wrong about you.
\r\nChristmas: Yeah, how so?
\r\nBond: “I thought Christmas only comes once a year.”<\/i> <\/p>
The American nuclear physicist twigs that Bond – posing as a Russian atomic scientist – is not who he says he is. After Renard, a kidnapper and extortionist, flees with a nuclear weapon, she hooks up with 007 to track him down. <\/p>
The Actress: The onetime fashion model made her big break with the sci-fi spoof Starship Troopers before being cast in Bond. However, she was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as “the worst Bond girl of all time”. Offscreen, she made the headlines with her volatile on/off (now off) marriage to Charlie Sheen – she claimed he threatened to kill her. She also got into trouble for lobbing the laptop computers of two photographers off a balcony, striking an 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-World-Is-Not-Enough-8.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The World Is Not Enough"},{"captionHeading":"DIE ANOTHER DAY: JINX (Halle Berry)","caption":"
Jinx: “I’m so good.”
\r\nBond: “Especially when you’re bad”<\/i> <\/p>
So-called because she was born on Friday the 13th, Jinx – real name Giancinta Johnson – works with Bond in preventing Gustav Graves using his Icarus satellite to turn North Korea into a predatory superpower. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> In Die Another Day, Jinx’s emergence from the sea echoed Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder’s first appearance in Dr No forty years before. The former Miss USA World and fashion model made her feature breakthrough in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever. Roles followed in Bulworth, X-Men and her Oscar-winning performance in Monster’s Ball. After Bond, Berry starred in Gothika and the abysmal Catwoman (Berry accepted her Razzle Award in person).<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Die-Another-Day-24.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Die Another Day"},{"captionHeading":"CASINO ROYALE: VESPER LYND (EVA GREEN)","caption":"
Vesper: “I’m the money”
\r\nBond: “Every penny of it.”<\/i> <\/p>
The British treasury agent is assigned to personally bankroll 007 in his multi-million card game against Le Chiffre at Casino Royale. However, she is also a double agent working for Mr White, a reluctant role she was pressured into by the kidnap of her boyfriend. <\/p>
The Actress:<\/b> The French actress raised eyebrows when she posed nude in her debut feature, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers. Subsequent appearances included Ridley Scott's medieval blockbuster Kingdom of Heaven. After she was considered for The Constant Gardener and The Black Dahlia, she agreed the role of Vesper Lynd after initially turning it down. She joined Bond co-star Daniel Craig in The Golden Compass.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Casino-Royale-2006-48.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Casino Royale - 2006"},{"captionHeading":"QUANTUM OF SOLACE: Agent Strawberry Fields (Gemma Arterton)","caption":"
Bond: \"When is the next flight to London?\"
\r\nFields: \"Tomorrow morning.\"
\r\nBond: \"Well, then we have all night.\"<\/i>
<\/p>
The brunette MI6 agent works for the British consulate in Bolivia and meets Bond when he arrives in La Paz in pursuit of Dominic Greene. The cover she provides them - to Bond's distaste - is that of two teachers on sabbatical.<\/p>
The Actress<\/b> The daughter of a Kent welder and a cleaner, Arterton was selected from 7,000 candidates after one of the casting directors saw her portrayal of Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost at London's Globe Theatre. She made her film debut in the 2007 movie St Trinian's as Head Girl Kelly, a role she gained in competition with Sienna Miller. She also appeared in the 2008 comedy Three And Out with Mackenzie Crook and Imelda Staunton.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/10/Quantum-Of-Solace-48-3.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Quantum Of Solace 48"},{"captionHeading":"QUANTUM OF SOLACE: Camille (Olga Kurylenko)","caption":"
A Russian-Bolivian agent, Camille has her own vendetta regarding Dominic Greene, who she has used to reach corrupt exiled Bolivan General Medrano, the man responsible for the murder of her family. Bond first encounters her in Haiti and they later join forces to infiltrate Greene's lair in the Bolivian desert.<\/p>
The Actress<\/b>The Ukrainian-born former model was picked from 400 hopefuls by director Marc Forster despite the film-makers originally wanting a South American actress. Previous outings have included the French thriller The Serpent and the action drama Hitman. Kurylenko spent three weeks training to fight with weapons and cites Michelle Yeoh as her inspiration for her fight scenes in Tomorrow Never Dies.<\/i><\/p>","url":"2008/7/28/quantum-of-solace-24-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"quantum of solace 24"}];