Biographies and pictures of the actresses that have held the coveted title "Bond girl".
Honey Ryder
The first ever Bond girl, Honey Ryder emerged from the sea in a skimpy
white bikini singing "Underneath the Mango Tree", and set the standard for
all Bond girls to follow. In Dr. No,
Ursula Andress pouts her way to
perfection as she guides Bond through Dr. No's island.
Most memorable quote
Sylvia Trench
The first of Connery's conquests as 007, in Dr. No,
he meets Sylvia Trench (played by Eunice Gayson)
across the card table. Her love of games comes to the fore when she later appears playing
golf in his hotel room.
Most memorable quote
Tatiana Romanova
From Russia With Love's tempting seductress who is
used to lure Bond into a SPECTRE trap, Tatiana Romanova works as an office
clerk in the Russian cypher department.
Daniela Bianchi (who placed 2nd in
the 1960 Miss Universe pageant) is beautiful and trusting as Bond's love interest, whom
he endeavours to take safely back to England with her "dowry" - the Lektor
decoder.
Most memorable quote
Jill Masterson
Shirley Eaton
made herself a household name after her memorable appearance
as Jill Masterson in 1964's Goldfinger. The
image of her golden body became an icon of the sixties after appearing on
the cover of Life magazine. Auric Goldfinger's paid escort, she faces his
wrath after helping Bond to foil his money winning card scam and dies from
skin suffocation from being spray painted gold.
Most memorable quote
Tilly Masterson
Tilly Masterson (played by Tania Mallet) is
Jill's sister who takes it upon herself to seek revenge for the death of her sister. Following
Goldfinger to Switzerland, she attempts to assassinate the nefarious
villain with a single rifle shot. However, her accuracy, and her car, let her down when she
'runs into' Bond in his Aston Martin DB5.
Most memorable quote
Pussy Galore
Athletic, husky-voiced and ridiculously named, Pussy Galore is Goldfinger's personal pilot. Strongly played by
Honor Blackman, Pussy is a memorable Bond girl with a dislike for men.
With her team of female pilots (Pussy Galore's Flying Circus), she helps
to foil Goldfinger's plan to break into Fort Knox by replacing the
canisters of deadly gas she was supposed to spray around the gold reserve
with a harmless substitute.
Most memorable quote
Domino Derval
The mistress of SPECTRE's number two (Emilio Largo), Domino Derval is
played by the beautiful Claudine Auger,
a former Miss France. In Thunderball, Domino
betrays her guardian when Bond informs her that Largo was responsible for
her brother's death. She then helps 007 track down two missing nuclear
devices and foil SPECTRE's plan.
Most memorable quote
Fiona Volpe
Dangerous, deadly, but incredibly sexy,
Thunderball's Fiona Volpe is a strong,
self-willed SPECTRE operative. Sent to put an end to Bond's interference,
Fiona (played by the enchanting Luciana Paluzzi)
refuses to give in to Bond's masculine charms, but meets a sticky end when she
is accidentally killed by one of her own men.
Most memorable quote
Patricia Fearing
A trained masseuse working at the heath club visited by Bond, Patricia Fearing
(played by Molly
Peters) soon submits to 007's amorous advances. In
Thunderball, she unwittingly puts Bond into a
dangerous situations by strapping him to "the rack". He repays her well,
however, with a massage with a mink glove.
Most memorable quote
Aki
007's Japanese guardian angel, You Only Live
Twice's Aki saves Bond's life on more than one occasion. Played by
Akiko
Wakabayashi, and driving a Toyota 2000GT convertible, Aki lures 007
into Tiger Tanaka's secret headquarters with considerable ease.
Unfortunately, she meets an untimely end when a ninja assassin misses his
target.
Most memorable quote
Kissy Suzuki
Played by Mie Hama, Kissy is the
first girl who Bond marries, albeit as a cover, in
You Only Live Twice. A Japanese Ama
girl who makes her living diving for shells, she also works for the
secret service and assists 007 in his search for SPECTRE's hidden rocket
launching base.
Most memorable quote
Tracy Draco
Perhaps one of the strongest of all Bond girls, Tracy Draco is also the
only one James fell in love with. In On Her Majesty's
Secret Service, Tracy (played by Avenger's star
Diana Rigg) wins
Bond's heart and he asks her to marry him. Sadly, the new Mrs. Bond is
gunned down by Irma Bundt, Blofeld's sinister henchwoman, just minutes after the
wedding.
Most memorable quote
Plenty O'Toole
Although she doesn't last long in Diamonds Are
Forever, Plenty O'Toole, played by Lana Wood,
is memorable simply for her introduction. She meets Bond in a Las Vegas casino,
but makes a swift exit through his bedroom window.
Most memorable quote
Tiffany Case
An American diamond smuggler with skimpy dresses and ever-changing hair
colour, Tiffany Case gets caught up in much more than she bargained for
when Peter Franks arrives on her doorstep. In Diamonds
Are Forever, Tiffany, played by Jill St. John, "helps" Bond follow the
path of the smuggled diamonds until the trail leads to Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Most memorable quotes
Bambi and Thumper
An inseperable, deadly duo, Bambi (played by stuntwoman
Donna Garratt) and Thumper (played
by dancer Trina Parks) are left to
guard Willard Whyte in his forced seclusion. In Diamonds
Are Forever, the pair almost prove too much for 007 when he happens upon
their hidden lair.
Most memorable quotes
Solitaire
Making her big screen debut, Jane Seymour
plays a rather naive tarot card reader in the service of Mr. Big in
Live And Let Die. Trusting a little too much in a
stacked deck, Solitaire succumbs to Bond's advances and loses her powers of
perception, but gains freedom for her egotistical boss.
Most memorable quote
Rosie
Bond's seemingly hapless contact, in Live And Let
Die, Rosie turns out to be a lot more than she at first appears.
Well played by Gloria Hendry,
Rosie's air of innocence is finally revealed as a cleverly crafted ploy to deceive 007.
Most memorable quote
Miss Caruthers
Illegally smuggled out the country, Bond's Italian contact (played by Hammer Horror star
Madeline Smith) is,
unsurprisingly, still working on an important assignment with 007. Caught out by M, Miss Moneypenny
uses her powers of foreign diplomacy to avoid an international incident.
Most memorable quote
Mary Goodnight
In The Man With The Golden Gun, Mary Goodnight
is Bond's beautiful but inept contact in the Far East. She attempts to
prove her worth, but ends up unwittingly bundled into the boot of a
flying car. Played to frustrating perfection by Britt Ekland, Goodnight
starts out in hostile rejection of Bond's amorous advances, but soon
succombs to his sophisticated charms.
Most memorable quote
Anya Amasova
Hailed as the first liberated Bond girl, Major Anya Amasova of the Russian
Army is 007's Russian counterpart in The Spy Who
Loved Me. Code named XXX, Anya, like Bond, has never failed on a
mission, and cleverly outwits and outthinks 007 on more than one occasion.
Played well by Barbara
Bach (the second wife of Ringo Starr), Anya manages to play both the strong
secret agent and the damsel in distress without an incongruous disparity.
Most memorable quote
The Log Cabin Girl
Saucily played by Sue Vanner, Bond's log cabin interest in The Spy Who Loved Me is actually a Soviet
double agent with orders to seduce 007. When she can no longer keep him
otherwise occupied, the girl radios her KGB allies to inform them of Bond's
whereabouts.
Most memorable quote
Naomi
Stromberg's beautiful assistant, Naomi (played by the stunning
Caroline Munro)
is not only an excellent hostess, but also a helicopter pilot with a deadly
aim. In The Spy Who Loved Me, after allowing 007 and
XXX to leave Stromberg's Atlantis headquarters, she tries to gun them down in
their Lotus Esprit.
Most memorable quote
Holly Goodhead
The most intelligent of the Bond girls to date, Dr. Holly Goodhead (played
by Lois Chiles)
is a NASA trained astrophysicist working for the CIA. In
Moonraker, she teams up with Bond and pilots
the shuttle which takes them to Drax's hidden space station.
Most memorable quote
Corinne Dufour
Moonraker's Corinne Dufour is Drax's personal
helicopter pilot. Played by the beautiful Corinne Clery,
Dufour is seduced by 007, and helps him to unlock Drax's secrets. Drax does not appreciate her sweet
nature, however, and has her mercilessly hunted down by a pair of vicious dogs.
Most memorable quote
Manuela
Bond's contact when his assignment takes him to Brazil, Manuela (played by
Emily Bolton is a smart,
but not particularly tough, secret agent. In Moonraker,
she almost comes to a sticky end when she runs into Jaws during the middle
of the carnival season.
Most memorable quote
Dolly
By far the most unexpected of the Bond girls, Dolly (played by
Blanche Ravalec) is a sweet girl with blond
pigtails who takes an instant liking to the terrifying Jaws.
In Moonraker, she helps the huge henchman out of the rubble of
a cable car station he has just destroyed, and stays with him. Thanks largely to her influence,
Jaws turns against his evil boss in a tense moment when he is ordered to throw Bond into
the vast expanse of space.
Most memorable quote
Melina Havelock
Melina Havelock, played by Chanel model Carole Bouquet,
is a Greek marine biologist whose parents are killed in Kristatos' search for
the ATAC. In For Your Eyes Only, while
seeking revenge for their deaths, she saves Bond's life
and follows him on the trail that leads to the stolen defense system.
Most memorable quote
Bibi Dahl
The sweet and supposedly innocent Bibi (played by
Lynn-Holly Johnson is
Kristatos' ice skating protoge in For Your Eyes Only.
With her tutor, Jacoba Brink, she is training under Kristatos' sponsorship
for the winter Olympics. However, she tries to seduce 007, then walks out on
her guardian who has lost her trust. She finally finds another sponsor in
Columbo, another Greek smuggler.
Most memorable quote
Countess Lisl
A fake countess with a fake accent and a fake fortune, Countess Lisl
(masterfully played by Cassandra Harris
is supposed to be getting information out of Bond. Instead, he turns the
table and finds out a good deal about the evil Kristatos before Lisl is
ruthlessly killed by one of his hitmen.
Most memorable quote
Domino Petachi
Kim Basinger's
first real big movie appearance was as Domino in Kevin
McClory's remake, Never Say Never Again. Playing almost exactly the
same character as Claudine Auger, Basinger's Domino is somewhat
two-dimensional. Again, Domino is Largo's mistress, but betrays him when
007 informs her of her brother's death at the hands of her guardian's
henchmen during a very memorable tango.
Most memorable quote
Fatima Blush
Barbara Carrera makes SPECTRE
assassin Fatima Blush an incredibly over-the-top villainess with a
massive ego-complex. Stealing some of the scenes in
Never Say Never Again, Blush is Max
Largo's key henchwoman.
Most memorable quote
Octopussy
Octopussy runs a circus as a cover for an
elaborate smuggling scheme, which puts her on the wrong side of 007.
Although they are two of a kind, he rejects her business propositions
in favour of his more amorous ones. Octopussy is played by
Maud Adams,
who also played Andrea Anders, Scaramanga's girlfriend in The
Man With The Golden Gun.
Most memorable quote
Magda
A member of Octopussy's travelling circus, Magda (played by
Kristina Wayborn is not
only a great performing magician and acrobat, she also hides a deadly secret. Working
with Kamal Khan, she seduces Bond in order to steal
the real Faberge egg that he had cleverly switched for a fake in the middle of an auction.
The property of a lady should always be returned, one way or another.
Most memorable quote
Stacy Sutton
A San Francisco based geologist, Stacy Sutton, played by the beautiful
but talentless Tanya Roberts,
is paid off by Max Zorin
for old mines which he needs as part of his villainous plan. In
A View To A Kill, she meets
Bond at Zorin's party, and later helps 007 to unravel Project Main Strike,
the villain's scheme to destroy Silicon Valley. Her quote should really be
"Oh, James", as that's about all she ever says.
Most memorable quote
Pola Ivanova
A Russian agent from Bond's past, Pola Ivanova, played by
Fiona Fullerton,
turns up just in time to save Bond from trouble in A
View To A Kill. She falls foul of his slight of hand however, when he
swaps her hard earned recording of Zorin's plans for a lovely collection
of soothing Japanese music.
Most memorable quote
Kara Milovy
A celebrated concert cellist, Kara Milovy is set up by her boyfriend, General
Georgi Koskov, as the sniper to make his defection look real. Saved only by
007's instincts, in The Living Daylights, she is
unwittingly enlisted by Bond to track down the missing General. Played naively
by Maryam D'Abo,
Olivia's cousin, Kara falls for Bond on the search for Koskov.
Most memorable quote
Pam Bouvier
Pam Bouvier is the only living contact the CIA have on Franz Sanchez.
In Licence To Kill Bond uses her information
to get into the drug baron's organisation and exact his revenge.
Carey Lowell
plays Pam as a stronger Bond girl than most, and makes her
presence felt by her character as well as her looks.
Most memorable quote
Lupe Lamora
Talisa Soto
plays Lupe, Sanchez's mistress in Licence
To Kill. A pretty girl who is punished unmercifully by her lover
for trying to run away, Lupe helps Bond to win Sanchez's confidence
in an effort to escape his clutches.
Most memorable quote
Natalya Siminova
Natalya, played by Polish model and rock singer
Izabella Scorupco,
is a level two programmer at the Severnaya Space Installation
before it is destroyed by a blast from one of the two
GoldenEye satellites.
She is tied up with Bond in a stolen Tiger helicopter, and later helps him
to track down the villain's hidden base and thwart his dastardly plan.
Most memorable quote
Xenia Onatopp
An ex-Soviet pilot and KGB assassin, Xenia Onatopp kills her victims by
crushing them to death with her shapely thighs. In
GoldenEye, she now works for the Janus syndicate in their
plot to steal a fortune from the Bank of England.
Played by Columbia University graduate
Famke Janssen,
Xenia gets a kick from killing and lives life on the edge.
Most memorable quote
Irina
Valentin Zukovsky's mistress, Irina (played in a stroke of casting genius by the talented
Minnie Driver is not exactly the singing megastar
she thinks she is. In GoldenEye, her rendition of Tammy Wynette's
Stand By Your Man leaves a lot to be desired.
Most memorable quote
Paris Carver
Wife of the worldwide media baron, Elliot Carver, Paris has a secret past which proves
her undoing. In Tomorrow Never Dies, a relationship with her old
flame, James Bond, leads to an untimely demise at the hands of Dr. Kaufman. Paris is played well
by Teri Hatcher, made famous by role as Lois Lane in
TV's Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Most memorable quote
Wai Lin
Posing as a reporter, Wai Lin of the Chinese secret service goes
undercover to investigate the suspicious circumstances behind hostilities between her country's armed
forces and the British Navy. Not your typical Bond girl, martial arts specialist
Michelle Yeoh gives
Wai Lin an explosive on-screen presence in Tomorrow Never Dies.
Most memorable quote
Professor Bergstrom
Professor Inga Bergstrom is a University professor at Oxford. 007 seeks out her superior abilities (as a
teacher of the Danish language). In Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond's love interest
is played by Cecilie Thomsen, best known as Bryan Adams' girlfriend.
Most memorable quote
Dr. Christmas Jones
A doctor of nuclear physics, Christmas Jones (played by Denise Richards
Most memorable quotes
Bond: You've defused hundreds of these, right?
Elektra King
Elektra King (played by the wonderful Sophie Marceau
Most memorable quote
Honey: What are you doing here? Looking for shells?
Bond: No, I'm just looking.
Sylvia: I admire your luck, Mr...
Bond: Bond. James Bond.
Bond: You're one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen.
Tatiana: Thank you, but I think my mouth is too big.
Bond: No, it's just the right size - for me, that is.
"I'm beginning to like you, Mr. Bond."
Bond: Why were you shooting at me?
Tilly: I wasn't. I was shooting at Goldfinger.
Bond: Then you're an awful shot.
Pussy: My name is Pussy Galore.
Bond: I must be dreaming.
Bond: I've been admiring your form.
Domino: What sharp little eye's you've got.
"Do you like wild things, Mr. Bond, James Bond?"
Patricia: Any time, any place.
Bond: Another time, another place..
"I think I will enjoy very much serving under you."
Bond: We're supposed to be on honeymoon..
Kissy: Think again, please. This is business.
Bond: I love you. I'll never find another girl like you. Will you
marry me?
Plenty: Hi, I'm Plenty.
Bond: But of course you are.
Plenty: Plenty O'Toole.
Bond: Named after your father, perhaps?
Tiffany: I'm co-operating Mr. Leiter, really I am.
Bond: Oh, I can vouch for that.
Bambi: I'm Bambi.
Thumper: And I'm Thumper.
Bond turns over a tarot card: the Fool
Solitaire: You have found yourself.
Bond: Mrs. Bond...?
Bond: Sheer magnetism, darling.
"Do you mean I've been in here for two hours?"
Golgol: As a gesture of goodwill, I am willing to make available the
microfilm recovered by XXX.
Anya: With considerable ease, I might add.
Girl: But, James, I need you.
Bond: So does England!
Bond: What a handsome craft. Such lovely lines.
Bond: A woman!
Holly: Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond.
Bond: There, you see, you have a heart of gold.
Bond: So how do you kill two hours in Rio if you don't Samba?
Jaws: Well, here's to us!
"Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge their loved ones."
Bond: Yes, well, you put your clothes on, and I'll buy you an ice cream.
Lisl: Me nightie's slippin'.
Bond: So is your accent, Countess.
Domino: I don't know if I want him enough to risk losing you.
Bond: Well, I don't want to risk losing me either.
Fatima: Oh, how reckless of me. I've made you all wet.
Bond: Yes, but my Martini's still dry.
"I don't have to answer to you, a trained assassin, for what I am."
Bond: Now, there is a lady.
Bond: Now I shall be all alone.
Stacy: Oh, I doubt that.
"The bubbles. They tickle my ... Tchaikovsky!"
Kara: They're looking for a man and a woman...
Bond: And a cello.
"Out of gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time."
"I love James so much."
Natalya: How can you act like this, how can you be so cold?
Bond: That's what keeps me alive.
Natalya: No, that's what keeps you alone.
"He's going to derail us."
Irina: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman...
Bond: Was it something I said?
Paris: How about the words, "I'll be right back"?
Wai Lin: Every now and then you get to take a cruise with a corrupt agent from a decadent Western power.
Bond: Well, if I may say so, you've found the right corrupt, decadent Western agent as a partner.
Bergstrom: I am very pleased with your progress, Mr Bond.
Bond: Well, I've always enjoyed learning a new tongue.
"Do you want to put that in English for those of us who don't speak spy?"
Christmas: Yeah, but they're usually standing still.
"Who's afraid now, Mr. Bond?"