One day somebody will make a serial of movies from the degree of view of the Bond Girls . In them , James Bond , aka 007 , will feature as the ultimate " homme fatal , " because , let ’s face it , if you ’re a woman , the man is toxicant . You take your life in your hands any time you make out within his reach .
This , it turns out , is was important plot point in " Spectre , " the 2015 Bond film , which means that Bond Girls have now been elevated from disposable ornaments to story elements , cold comfort for the dozens of them who ’ve died .
Now , Léa Seydoux will make account in the long - expect " No Time to conk , " as the first Bond Girl to recapitulate her theatrical role as 007 ’s sexual love interest as Madeleine Swann from " Spectre . " " No Time to Die " is the 25th installment in the James Bond saga — and Daniel Craig ’s last as 007 . In honour of that milestone , here are 25 of the many woman in Bond ’s extremely checkered past .
1. Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder
No other image come closer to capturing the archetypal Bond Girl thanUrsula Andressin " Dr. No . " She emerges from Caribbean waters like some latter - day fusion ofAphroditeand Artemis , a hunt tongue lather to her thigh . Here , the allurement and risk of beautiful woman in Bond lore come in together in one cartoonishly obvious , yet enigmatically immortal , image .
2. Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench
Other than Moneypenny , few Bond cleaning woman have survived from one celluloid to the next . Sylvia Trenchwas actually Bond ’s lady friend in both " Dr. No " and " From Russia With Love . " She ’s also the germ of the famous Bond self - launching . In the first tantrum of the first Bond motion picture ever ( " Dr. No " ) she greets 007 with the words , " Trench . Sylvia Trench , " a locution he mimics , then and incessantly more .
3. Martine Beswick as Zora
Zora might not be everybody ’s pick for a memorable Bond Girl . In " From Russia With Love , " she ’s one of two women in love with the son of a Roma chief . They engage in a scrap to the dying to determine who will get him , but bail bond steps in and deal to put a block to the battle and subsequently spend the night with them both . But none of that is the real cause why she ’s on this list . The real understanding has to withMartine Beswick , the actor who portray her , as will become ostensible in the next launching …
4. Martine Beswick as Paula Caplan
In " Thunderball , " Paula Caplan is Bond ’s liaison in the Bahamas . Later in the film , taken prisoner by SPECTRE agent , she prefers destruction by nitrile pill over anguish . And here ’s the matter : She ’s play by none other thanMartine Beswick , who so memorably incarnated Zora in " From Russia With Love . " Did they guess we would n’t notice ? The curious thing is that was n’t the last metre a Bond Girl actor would reappear as another eccentric . Look for the 2nd case in the rest period of the list .
5. Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson
If there ’s a rival to Honey Ryder ’s bikini and knife in the pantheon of Bond Girl mental image , it ’s poorJill Mastersondipped in gold by Goldfinger . Her death is punishment for rat the eponymic villain with Bond , who wakes up to discover her numb , gilded body next to him . How he managed to sleep through such a operation is about as baffling as his own unpainted flesh .
6. Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
Of all the derisory names in all the Bond films , none comes close toPussy Galorefor bold bald - faced , puerile absurdity . It ’s not even a pun , never mind a clever one . Anyway , Galore is in charge of an all - female team of gymnastic pilots in " Goldfinger , " many of whom , we are given to understand , she regularly know . Apparently , Ian Fleming , Bond ’s creator , believe that Bond was able to " cure " Galore of her sapphism with his unavoidable Bond - cape .
7. Dame Diana Rigg as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo AKA Tracy Bond
perchance it wasDiana Rigg’sappearance as Emma Peel in a leather qat - suit in the cult British TV series , " The Avengers , " that alert the Bond franchise to her suitability as a Bond Girl . In " On Her Majesty ’s Secret Service " she became the only woman Bond ever wed . Of naturally , it did n’t end well . Was it for this role that she was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1994 ? Or was it her predominate onstage portrayal of Medea ?
8. Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki
OK , Bond trivia expert might dispute the title that the Contessa was the only woman 007 ever get married , because technically , literally , pedantically speaking , he also get hitched with aninjanamedKissy Suzukiin " You Only Live Twice . " But , to be even more pedantic , he was in disguise as a Nipponese fisherman ( having undergone surgical operation for the theatrical role — do n’t enquire ) and under an assumed name , so it does n’t really consider .
9. Trina Parks as Thumper
Thumperwas one - one-half of Thumper and Bambi , a team of gymnastics bodyguards in " Diamonds Are eternally . " They ’re memorable for having nearly gotten the skillful of Bond . In fact , on dry land he suffer no chance against them , but once the battleground shifted to a consortium , our erstwhile hero was capable to tame the active duo by virtually drowning them .
10. Jill St. John as Tiffany Case
From time to time in the Bond universe of discourse , Bond was not only able-bodied to exchange lesbians to his brand of heterosexuality , he was also capable of convince certain especially attractive villain to break good . Tiffany Casefollowed this quality electric discharge , devolve from cleverdiamond smugglerto vapid Bond Girl in " Diamonds Are incessantly . "
11. Jane Seymour as Solitaire
Like some continent priestess , Solitairewas doomed to lose her magical tarot record psychic powers if she sleep with anybody . cognise this , her employer / captor , Dr. Kananga , kept her well away from the Bond who , as every sinner well lie with , automatically overstate the sex drive of all women in his radius . In " Live and permit Die , " the inevitable came to extend — she lost her powers and , accordingly , most lose her life .
12. Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight
While alliance is excellently cosmopolitan in his tastes , he has a particular weakness for Swedish woman . In " The valet with the Golden Gun"Mary Goodnightis 007 ’s helper and as such , might be too competent to rightfully be classed as a Bond Girl . specially because , despite several dear miss , she never really log Z’s with him .
13. Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead
Although her name comes in a close indorsement to Pussy Galore for most egregiously dumb Bond Girl name , Dr. Holly Goodheadmakes up for it with , possibly , the cool fishgig in the 007 world — CIA factor in deep cover version as anastronaut . She gets to fulfill both roles while assist Bond carry through the human subspecies from death by poison gasoline in " Moonraker . "
14. Maud Adams as Andrea Anders
At a particularly humiliating juncture in " The Man With the Golden Gun , " Mary Goodnight , take down above , gets shoved in a closet by shackle so that he can bond , as it were , with another Swede , Andrea Anders played byMaud Adams , when she unexpectedly pays him a visit . Anders is hoping that Bond can liberate her from bondage ( again , as it were ) from her evil young man , Scaramanga , the eponymous serviceman with the Golden Gun . For this treachery , she paid with her life . But she live to , as it ( finally ) were , die another day ( see the next entry ) .
15. Maud Adams as Octopussy
The 007 franchise producers seem to be into recycling . Or possibly it ’s upcycling . Not only did the " p " word get repurposed in 1983 , it get top charge in the film ’s name : " Octopussy . " And staying with the recycling theme , Maud Adams , whose character Andrea Anders expired at the hands of the Man with the Golden Gun , re-emerge as the eponymous sorry - daughter - turned - Bond - missy Octopussy herself . This time , she survived .
16. Grace Jones as May Day
There never has been a Bond Girl quite likeGrace Jones , and probably never will be again . Supermodel , pop diva , fashion image , her use as an assassin in " A purview to a killing " might be the least of her many role . Given all that , the literal trajectory of her character ( cheat on malevolent boyfriend to team up with Bond and consequently go ) seems almost too piffling to mention .
17. Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp
As Bond Girl names go , Xenia Onatopp in " GoldenEye " must be one of the good . Making punning from Russian names is low - hanging fruit , but Pussy Galore and Holly Goodhead set the bar so very low that Onatopp seems witty by compare . Then there’sFamke Janssenin a pre - X Men theatrical role , play some serious oomph ( and a deadly thigh - bag ) to her role as a villain who never bothers to change by reversal good fille . Of of course , it does n’t finish well for her , but at least she dies with her evilness integral .
18. Sophie Marceau as Elektra King
Long before she shew up as a Bond Girl , Sophie Marceauhad been a star in France ever since her teenage turn in " La Boum . " In " The World Is Not Enough , " she follows in Famke Janssen ’s footsteps as a malefactor too utterly committed to her evil path to slew off it for Bond ’s saki . or else , she turns out to be 007 ’s first , full fledged female arch - nemesis . Naturally , Bond kills her .
19. Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin
Like Sophie Marceau before her , Michelle Yeohwas a huge star before she appeared in " Tomorrow Never die . " And she was a Brobdingnagian wizard afterward too , as she prove in classic like , " Crouching Tiger , Hidden Dragon . " In a brisk change of pace for Bond films , not only was the character of Wai Lin a hyper - competent spy , and therefore workfellow , of Bond ’s , she also managed to survive the pic .
20. Halle Berry as Jinx Johnson
In " snuff it Another Day,“Halle Berryfamously recapitulate the simulacrum of Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder emerging from the sea in bikini and knife . Like Michelle Yeoh , she too was a undercover agent and workings collaborator / lover of Bond ’s who exist to tell the story . Unlike any other Bond Girl actor , she went on towin an Oscarfor Best Actress for her role in " Monster ’s Lucille Ball , " the first African - American woman to do so .
21. Rosamund Pike as Miranda Frost
Rosamund Pikeexudes intelligence at such high-pitched electric power ( unless she ’s playing a ditz , as she unforgettably did in " An Education " ) that she nearly make you conceive in her reference in " go Another solar day . " This despite the fact that Miranda Frost is supposed to be such an excessively competitive fencing champion she ’s willing to stamp out to win .
22. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd
As Vesper Lynd in " Casino Royale,“Eva Greenhas a memorable panorama in which she bring in herself to Bond as " the money " and manages to rattle his cool when she correctly " reads " him for what he is : orphaned and " maladjusted " under his disdainfully worn wooing . He recovers himself enough to remark appreciatively that he feels as " skewered " as the lamb he just feed . Sadly , despite her vow to keep her optic on the money and not on his " absolutely form backtalk , " she eventually give in to 007 ’s charms and , well , does n’t make it …
23. Bérénice Marlohe as Sévérine
The character ofSévérinein " Skyfall " was a return to Bond Girl type — a beautiful and occult char who works for the manlike patronising - scoundrel , facilitate 007 out and gets honor with a violent , ill-timed last . Worse still , she ’s a former sex - hard worker who apportion her agonising story with the undercover agent before he seduces her . To top it off , when her boss decide to play William Tell with a glass of whisky on her head , and subsequently shoots her idle , Bond coldly laments the " permissive waste of well Scotch whisky . "
24. Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann
Marcel Proust , the source of " anamnesis of Things Past , " the first volume in his monumental modernist work , " À la recherche du temps perdu " is splendidly send into a retention when he eats a madeleine . Is the character ofMadeleine Swannin " Spectre " an obscure reference to this ? perhaps . Why not ? In any instance , Swann manage to become romantically involved with 007 and dwell through the final credits , an advance on the doomed characters run into in the previous several installments .
25. Dame Judi Dench as M
purist will aver that it ’s heretical to classifyDame Judi Denchas a Bond Girl and they ’ll have good ground . First , Dench meet M , the head of MI6 and Bond ’s boss . secondly , her relationship with him is mother / son , not lover / spy . That say , there ’s a casing to be made that Dench is the most important of them all . Like many , if not most Bond girl , she dies , at the end of " Skyfall . " But when she does , 007 ’s reaction to her passing makes for one of the few , genuinely run instant in the story of the franchise .
