Spectre's Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci are the latest in a long line of Bond girls – but what of Bond girls gone by?
Join us in a nostalgic meander around 007's most famous love interests, and discover just what happened to Barbara Bach and company...
Ursula Andress: Honey Ryder in Dr No (1962)
The one-time lover of James Dean was a jobbing Swiss-German actress before Dr No – and that bikini – plucked her from obscurity. After becoming the "quintessential" Bond girl, she worked with Elvis Presley in Fun in Acapulco (1963), Laurence Olivier in Clash of the Titans (1981) and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 4 for Texas (1963).
She even took the mick out of 007 in a non-Eon Bond movie, playing Vesper Lynd in the spoof version of Casino Royale in 1967.
Fun Bond fact: Due to her heavy accent, Andress's voice was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl in Dr No, while her calypso was sung by Diana Coupland.
Honor Blackman: Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (1964)
Already famous in the UK for playing Cathy Gale in The Avengers TV series, Blackman was hot property when Bond producer Albert R Broccoli turned her into a cinematic icon. "The Brits would love her because they knew her as Mrs Gale, the Yanks would like her because she was so good, it was a perfect combination." Broccoli later said.
It wasn't her first big role in a big budget movie, either, with Blackman appearing in Titanic drama A Night to Remember in 1958 and myth mash-up Jason and the Argonauts in 1963. More recently, you might have spotted here in Bridget Jones Diary (2001) and um, Cockneys vs Zombies (2012).
Fun Bond fact: Blackman worked with Sean Connery for a second time in 1968 Western Shalako.
Diana Rigg: Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Another Avengers veteran, Rigg played Emma Peel for 51 episodes before Hollywood called. After the success – of a sort – of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Rigg enjoyed roles in the likes of Julius Caesar (1970), Theatre of Blood (1973), In This House of Brede (1975) and A Little Night Music (1977).
More recently, you'll have seen Daniel Radcliffe throw a condom at her in Extras, Matt Smith cock an eyebrow at her in Doctor Who and Natalie Dormer huff at her in Game of Thrones, where she played the "Queen of Thorns", Lady Olenna Tyrell.
Fun Bond fact: Rigg's legacy as Tracy, Bond's only wife, lived on into further Bond films, with For Your Eyes Only showing Bond laying flowers at her grave.
Jane Seymour: Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973)
It's hard to say what Seymour is best known for: her James Bond work or the starring role in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman in the mid-'90s. They're not the only things that have made her famous, however, with East of Eden (1981), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988) and War and Remembrance (1988) some of her biggest career hits.
More recently, she's enjoyed cameos in Wedding Crashers (2005), How I Met Your Mother and Smallville, and written several children's books. And as well as being an OBE, she's also earned a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award.
Fun Bond Fact: Solitaire's tarot costume inspired Padmé Amidala's imperial robes in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).
Maud Adams: Andrea Anders / Octopussy in Man with the Golden Gun (1974) / Octopussy (1983)
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The majority of Adams' career has been defined by James Bond – though that's not necessarily a bad thing. With a smaller role in The Man With The Golden Gun upgraded to a canonically-unrelated leading villain gig in Octopussy, the Swedish model-turned-actress was well loved by the Broccolis. If you squint, you can even spot her as an extra in San Francisco in A View To A Kill (1985).
Fun Bond fact: Adams wasn't the first choice to play the role of Octopussy, with Sybil Danning, Faye Dunaway and Barbara Carrera all falling at the final hurdle. Carrera even went on to appear in the rival non-Eon film, Never Say Never Again.
Barbara Bach: Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Aside from The Spy Who Loved Me, Bach's biggest movie role was in 1978's Force 10 from Navarone, the ill-fated sequel to the much more successful The Guns of Navarone (1961). That said, it did also star Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw and Carl Weathers, so it's not all bad.
A key moment in Bach's life post-Bond was meeting her husband to be, Ringo Starr, on the set of 1980's prehistoric slapstick flick – no really, that's a thing – Caveman. The word "Ug" gets said a lot, and whatever you think about it, it's certainly… one of a kind.
Fun Bond Fact: Amasova was meant to cameo in Moonraker, two years after The Spy Who Loved Me. She was set to play the woman in bed with General Gogol – the head of the KGB played by Walter Gotell – but this never came to pass.
Grace Jones: May Day in A View to a Kill (1985)
Before Bond, Grace Jones appeared in Conan The Destroyer (1984). After Bond, Grace Jones appeared in… well, not that much really, unless you count Eddie Murphy vehicle Boomerang (1992) and Tim Curry TV movie Wolf Girl (2001).
But Grace Jones – for it is she – was too busy doing much more important things to be appearing in films, pumping out hit singles such as 'Private Life', 'Slave to the Rhythm' and 'I'm Not Perfect'.
Fun Bond Fact: Dolph Lundgren only got his role in A View To A Kill because his then-girlfriend, Grace Jones, got him the part.
Maryam d'Abo: Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights (1987)
Before she became everyone's favourite Czechoslovakian cellist-cum-sniper, d'Abo was best known for a low-budget sci-fi horror called Xtro. And while she never hit the heights of Bond fame again, she did enjoy a number of fun cameos in such TV shows as Tales From the Crypt (1993), Red Shoe Diaries (1992) and Murder, She Wrote (1992).
In honour of Bond girls, d'Abo co-wrote a book called Bond Girls Are Forever, which was later turned into a documentary. Both the book and the doc were updated in 2006 in honour of the release of Casino Royale.
Fun Bond fact: d'Abo also auditioned for the role of Pola Ivanova in A View To A Kill, but Fiona Fullerton got the part instead.
Carey Lowell: Pam Bouvier in Licence to Kill (1989)
Lowell appeared in many successful films after her brush with Bond, from Sleepless in Seattle (1993) to Leaving Las Vegas (1995), but they were all smaller parts than she'd hoped for. Her biggest acting gig was a regular role in the original Law & Order, appearing in 49 episodes from 1996 to 2001.
After marrying Richard Gere in 2002, Lowell left the acting business, but did return briefly for the JJ Abrams-produced drama series 6 Degrees, which was cancelled after two seasons.
Fun Bond fact: Lowell returned to the Bond fold in 2012, reprising her Licence to Kill role in video game 007 Legends.
Izabella Scorupco: Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye (1995)
Never forget: Izabella Scorupco released an album in 1991 called IZA, which peaked at 11 in the Swedish album charts. This fledgling musical career, alongside several Swedish films, was part of what Scorupco was doing before GoldenEye cropped up, opening the door to Hollywood with gigs in Vertical Limit (2000), Reign of Fire (2002) and, um, Exorcist: The Beginning (2004).
Fun Bond Fact: In an early draft of Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond mentions that Natalya married a hockey player. This is a reference to Scorupco's real-life wedding to the NHL's Mariusz Czerkawski.
Michelle Yeoh: Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Yeoh is, of course, an acting legend in her own right, though she's still best known to Western audiences for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), or perhaps The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) or Star Trek: Discovery, where she appeared in a guest role as Captain Georgiou. That said, if you've watched Jackie Chan classic Police Story 3: Super Cop (1993) – one of Quentin Tarantino's favourite films – you'd probably know her best for that.
Of Malaysian Chinese descent, Yeoh started her career by winning the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant in 1983. Her big break acting-wise came about thanks to a Jackie Chan commercial (him again), which caught the attention of his movie producers.
Fun Bond fact: Widely regarded as one of the best Bond girls of all time, Michelle Yeoh's Wai Lin was so popular that MGM reportedly considered a spin-off movie starring the character.
Sophie Marceau: Elektra King in The World is Not Enough (1999)
Marceau enjoyed a successful acting career in France before she squared off against Bond, with comedies La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982) perhaps her best-known work.
The World Is Not Enough was not her first big Hollywood production, however, with Braveheart (1995) and Firelight (1997) both coming well before Pierce Brosnan pointed a gun at her and made a bad joke. Since then, Marceau has returned to French cinema, with one stand-out film being LOL (Laughing Out Loud), which received critical acclaim – enough to earn it a terrible American remake starring Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore.
Fun Bond fact: Before The World Is Not Enough was chosen, other rumoured titles included Death Waits for No Man, Fire and Ice, Pressure Point and Dangerously Yours.
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