‘Bond Girls’ Archives
Eva Green “Is” Vesper in Casino Royale
Vesper Lynd: I’m the money. James Bond: Every penny of it In the novel, the character explains that she was born on a “dark and stormy” night, and her parents named her “Vesper” after the Latin word meaning evening to commemorate the night. [Read More]
The Many Lives of Miss Moneypenny
Lois Maxwel, the actress who played Miss Moneypenny for most of the James Bond films was also a race car driver, Golden Globe winner, Canadian Army Corps volunteer and classmate of Roger Moore way before she played the famous secretary of MI6 Section Chief M and [Read More]
Claudine Auger “Thunderball”
Largo: “You’ve given me much pleasure Domino, but unless you tell me how much Bond knows I will be forced to cause you great pain.” The role of Domino in Thunderball was originally to be an Italian woman: Dominetta Petacchi. Auger impressed the producers [Read More]
Luciana Paluzzi “Thunderball”
Fiona: Some men just don’t like to be driven. Bond: No, some men don’t like to be taken for a ride. Paluzzi’s role might have been short but memorable in Thunderball playing the Spectre assassin Viona Volpe. Bond: My dear girl, don’t flatter [Read More]
Caroline Munro – “The Spy Who Loved Me”
In 1977, Munro turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman in favor of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. In one of the franchise’s most memorable car chase [Read More]
Olga Kurylenko “Quantum Of Solace”
Olga plays the Bond Girl, Camille Montes, in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace and portrays Nika Boronina in the movie adaptation of the video game Hitman. Kurylenko was discovered by a female model scout while on vacation in Moscow at the age of 13. When she [Read More]
Daniela Bianchi “From Russia With Love”
Tatiana Romanova: The mechanism is… Oh, James, James… Will you make love to me all the time in England? James Bond: Day and night. Go on about the mechanism. Daniela Bianchi Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in [Read More]
Carey Lowell “License To Kill”
James Bond: Why don’t you wait until you’re asked? Pam Bouvier: Why don’t you ask me? Carey Lowell plays Pam Bouvier, A former army pilot, Bouvier works as a CIA informer, posing as a courier for drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond tracks her down to a bar in [Read More]
Talisa Soto “License To Kill”
James Bond: You’d better find yourself a new lover! Lupe Lamora: Don’t you men know any other way? James Bond: It’s Sanchez’s way! You seem to like it! Talisa Soto played Lupe Lamora in “License To Kill” and is first seen in bed with a [Read More]
Barbara Bach “The Spy Who Love Me”
In 1971, Bach co-starred with two other Bond girls, Claudine Auger and Barbara Bouchet in the mystery La Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero and had small roles in other Italian films. In 1977, her role as the Russian spy Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me gained her recognition as [Read More]
