The Bond Girls Page
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 she guides Bond through Dr. No's island.
Most memorable quote
Honey: Are you looking for shells?
Bond: No, I'm just looking.
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. Daniella Bianchi, who was Miss Universe in 1960, is beautiful and trusting as Bond's love interest, who he endeavours to take safely back to England with her "dowry" - the Lektor decoder.
Most memorable quote
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.
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
"I'm beginning to like you, Mr. Bond."
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
Pussy: My name is Pussy Galore.
Bond: I must be dreaming.
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
Bond: I've been admiring your form.
Domino: What sharp little eye's you've got.
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 is accidentally killed by one of her own men.
Most memorable quote
"Do you like wild things, Mr. Bond, James Bond?"
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
Patricia: Any time, any place.
Bond: Another time, another place..
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
"I think I will enjoy very much serving under you."
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
Bond: We're supposed to be on honeymoon..
Kissy: Think again, please. This is business.
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
Bond: I love you. I'll never find another girl like you. Will
you marry me?
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
Plenty: Hi, I'm Plenty.
Bond: But of course you are.
Plenty: Plenty O'Toole.
Bond: Named after your father, perhaps?
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
Tiffany: I'm co-operating Mr. Leiter, really I am.
Bond: Oh, I can vouch for that.
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
Bond turns over a tarot card: the Fool
Solitaire: You have found yourself.
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
"Do you mean I've been in here for two hours?"
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 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
Golgol: As a gesture of goodwill, I am willing to make available
the microfilm recovered by XXX.
Anya: With considerable ease, I might add.
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
Girl: But, James, I need you.
Bond: So does England!
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
Bond: What a handsome craft. Such lovely lines.
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
Bond: A woman!
Holly: Your powers of observation do you credit, Mr. Bond.
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
Bond: There, you see, you have a heart of gold.
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
"Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge their loved
ones."
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
Bond: Yes, well, you get your clothes on, and I'll buy you an
ice cream.
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 Scaramanga's girlfriend in The Man With The Golden Gun.
Most memorable quote
"I don't have to answer to you, a trained assassin, for
what I am."
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 nefarious 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 all she ever says.
Most memorable quote
Bond: Now I shall be all alone.
Stacy: Oh, I doubt that.
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
"The bubbles. They tickle my ... Tchaikovsky!"
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
Kara: They're looking for a man and a woman...
Bond: And a cello.
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
"Out of gas. I haven't heard that one in a long
time."
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
"I love James so much."
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
Bond: That's what keeps me alive.
Natalya: No, that's what keeps you alone.
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. Played by Columbia University graduate Famke Janssen, Xenia gets a kick from killing and lives life on the edge.
Most memorable quote
"He's going to derail us."