Our Pick: Top 20 Bond Girls
Here's our list of to 25 Bond girls.
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Honey Ryder, Dr. No (1962- Sean Connery): Donning the now-famous white bikini, Ursula Andress' character Honey Ryder set the standard high for the many legendary Bond Girls that followed her. In this case, classic was really the best. Almost half a century later, Ursula Andress emerging from the sea remains among the most-paused movie moments ever.
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Jill Masterson, Goldfinger (1964-Sean Connery): As Jill Masterson, Shirley Eaton captured the fascination of men left, right and centre. She appeared on the cover of Life Magazine painted head to toe in skin suffocating gold, leading to an urban myth that Eaton had died during filming.
She appeared in a 2003 episode of the series MythBusters to dispel the rumour. -
Dominique 'Domino' Derval, Thunderball (1965-Sean Connery): Dominique 'Domino' Derval, played by Claudine Auger, is the feisty mistress of Emilio Largo who breaks free from her caged life and avenges her brother's death by killing Largo and saving the super-agent's life.
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Kissy Suzuki, You Only Live Twice (1967-Sean Connery)- Mie Hama plays Kissy Suzuki, a ninja agent working for Tanaka who helps Bond find Blofeld's secret base. When Hama became ill during shooting, Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento doubled for her in the swimming sequence.
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Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969-George Lazenby): Diana Rigg (Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is the woman our daredevil superagent meets, falls in love with and eventually marries. She dies tragically in the end, but not before making a mark for herself in the series.
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Pam Bouvier, Licence to Kill (1989-Timothy Dalton): CIA informer Pam Bouvier, played by Carey Lowell, makes for a lovely Bond girl. Falling in and out of love with each other, Bond and Pam go through the motions Bond series is so famous for- Bond snatches her back from the jaws of death quite a few times, but his ‘bond' with her doesn't mean he forgets the other lovely ladies.
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Elektra King, The World is Not Enough (1999-Pierce Brosnan): As Elektra King, Sophie Marceau enthralls and dazzles as she places Bond in a torture device designed to break his neck by forcing a metal rod against his spine. The super-agent manages to escape, but it's exciting nevertheless.
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Jinx, Die Another Day (2002-Pierce Brosnan): Gorgeous NSA agent Jinx was sexy and intriguing and forever left an image in the minds of Bond fanatics- with a lot of help from an itsy-bitsy orange bikini. Halle Berry was one of the few high points in the 2002 movie.
