The Bond Girls Who Made An Impression
There have been many impressive Bond girls over the decades—but these are the characters that truly stood out from all the rest.
Ursula Andress: Honey Ryder
Bond Film: Dr No (1962)
The very first Bond girl certainly set the bar high. Wielding a menacing hunting blade, Honey Ryder stuns in her white bikini—not to mention her iconic entrance, walking straight out of the Caribbean Sea.
Shirley Eaton: Jill Masterson
Bond Film: Goldfinger (1964)
Jill Masterson switches sides after James Bond catches her helping Auric Goldfinger cheat during a card game. However, her change of heart dooms her. Goldfinger's henchman comes after her and takes her life. Bond eventually discovers her body. The wild part? She's painted entirely in gold.
United Artists, Goldfinger (1964)
Britt Ekland: Mary Goodnight
Bond Film: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
In London, Mary Goodnight is Bond's secretary—and later becomes his assistant, helping him track down the villain Scaramanga's girlfriend, Miss Anders. However, she definitely gets put through the wringer when Scaramanga kidnaps her. Bond, of course, saves the day.
United Artists, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Halle Berry: Jinx
Bond Film: Die Another Day (2002)
There's something undeniably memorable about Jinx coming out of the water in her orange bikini. In fact, her introduction absolutely pays homage to the very first Bond girl, Honey Ryder. In Die Another Day, Jinx works for the NSA. Her mission? To take out Zao.
Grace Jones: May Day
Bond Film: A View To a Kill (1985)
As Max Zorin's girlfriend, May Day is not on the good side... at first. She's an assassin who tries to end Bond's life and succeeds in slaying his chauffeur. However, she later switches sides after Zorin betrays her. She decides to help Bond—but ultimately loses her life.
Izabella Scorupco: Natalya Simonova
Bond Film: Goldeneye (1995)
The programmer Natalya Simonova works with one of Goldeneye's antagonists, Boris Grishenko, at a Russian Space Control Center. She ends up working alongside Bond to defeat the bad guys—both Grishenko and Xenia Onatopp.
Michelle Yeoh: Wai Lin
Bond Film: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Wai Lin is an agent sent on the very same mission as James Bond: To look into the media magnate Elliot Carver. Lin is especially memorable because many of her strategies outshine Bond's. In the end, the two agents join forces to take down Carver together.
MGM, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Rosamund Pike: Miranda Frost
Bond Film: Die Another Day (2002)
Miranda Frost is an intelligence agent working for MI6—but she has a nefarious secret. In truth, she is actually a double agent, employed by the diamond magnate Gustav Graves.
Eva Green: Vesper Lynd
Bond Film: Casino Royale (2006)
In the newer James Bond films, starring Daniel Craig, Vesper Lynd is James Bond's first true love. However, she has a double life he doesn't know about—and her circumstances eventually lead her to her watery end. Her loss leaves Bond with deep emotional scars.
Denise Richards: Christmas Jones
Bond Film: The World is Not Enough (1999)
Christmas Jones is a nuclear physicist who helps Bond after he helps her survive a deadly explosion. Her expertise becomes essential to the mission. Luckily, she survives her time spent with Bond—and the film even ends with the two of them spending Christmas together.
MGM, The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Zena Marshall: Miss Taro
Bond Film: Dr No (1962)
As Dr No's spy, Miss Taro is up to no good from the very beginning. She even plans to have James Bond eliminated—but is foiled when he sniffs out her nefarious plan and apprehends her.
Olga Kurylenko: Camille Montes
Bond Film: Quantum of Solace (2008)
As a Bolivian Secret Service agent, Camille Montes is another character with revenge in her heart. Her target? The ruthless dictator General Medrano who brutally decimated her entire family.
Bérénice Marlohe: Sévérine
Bond Film: Skyfall (2012)
Sévérine is at the mercy of her captor, the film's antagonist, Raoul Silva. Bond promises to take out Silva and win her freedom, but requires Sévérine's cooperation. However, when their plans get foiled, the betrayal leads to her brutal execution.
Daniela Bianchi: Tatiana Romanova
Bond Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
Working for the Soviet Embassy, Tatiana Romanova falls prey to the villainous Rosa Klebb, who embroils her in a dark assignment. Romanova has to make James Bond fall for her charms—but she doesn't know that this will lead him straight into a death trap. In the end, her loyalty to Bond trumps everything else.
MGM, From Russia with Love (1963)
Lea Seydoux: Madeleine Swann
Bond Films: Spectre (2015), No Time to Die (2021)
After the loss of Vesper, Madeleine Swann is the woman James Bond eventually opens his heart to. She is a French psychiatrist who ends up being the daughter of Mr White, a member of SPECTRE. She and Bond end up having a child together—a daughter named Mathilde Swann.
Martine Beswick: Zora
Bond Film: From Russia With Love (1963)
In From Russia With Love, Zora is a Gypsy girl who goes head to head with another woman, competing for the affection of the chief's son.
The actress who played her, Martine Beswick, would later make another appearance in a different Bond film—Thunderball—playing the Bond girl Paula Caplan.
United Artists, From Russia with Love (1963)
Honor Blackman: Pussy Galore
Bond Film: Goldfinger (1964)
Pussy Galore was a character plucked straight from the novel Goldfinger by Ian Fleming. In the film, she's in cahoots with Goldinger's "Operation Grand Slam" and leads a flying circus of female aviators.
United Artists, Goldfinger (1964)
Talisa Soto: Lupe Lamora
Bond Film: Licence to Kill (1989)
Lupe Lamora is the promiscuous mistress of the antagonist Franz Sanchez. She eventually introduces Bond to Sanchez, but ultimately falls for Bond. Unfortunately for her, Bond chooses another Bond girl over her—Pam Bouvier.
Carey Lowell: Pam Bouvier
Bond Film: License to Kill (1989)
Pamela Bouvier works for the CIA as an informant, and is also an Army pilot. She and James Bond have a common enemy in Franz Sanchez, who she is an informant against. To conceal her true identity, Bouvier pretends to be Bond's secretary during their mission.
Maud Adams: Octopussy
Bond Film: Octopussy (1983)
Octopussy is a very rich businesswoman, but also a jewelry smuggler. Her twisted cohort, Kamal Khan, betrays her and tries to take her life. The film ends with the defeat of Khan, and the two lovebirds—Octopussy and Bond—finally sleep together on her boat.
United Artists, Octopussy (1983)
Maryam D'Abo: Kara Milovy
Bond Film: The Living Daylights (1987)
In The Living Daylights, the cellist Kara Milovy has the worst boyfriend imaginable: the sociopathic Soviet General Georgi Koskov. However, she eventually becomes romantically involved with James Bond.
United Artists, The Living Daylights (1987)
Tanya Roberts: Stacey Sutton
Bond Film: A View To a Kill (1985)
The antagonist Max Zorin wanted to assume control over the Sutton Oil company, which Stacey Sutton had inherited. Though she refuses to sell her company, Sutton eventually comes face to face with James Bond, who investigates her dealings with Zorin. At first, she's quite aggressive with him, but he eventually earns her trust.
United Artists, A View to a Kill (1985)
Carole Bouquet: Melina Havelock
Bond Film: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Melina Havelock's parents were both marine archaeologists who worked for the British Secret Service. Tragically, they were taken out by a hitman, who Havelock eventually slays in revenge. She and Bond team up and discover who was at the root of her parents' demise.
MGM, For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Claudine Auger: Domino Derval
Bond Film: Thunderball (1965)
Domino Derval is romantically involved with a nefarious SPECTRE agent named Emilio Largo. When Bond finds out that Largo is responsible for the demise of Derval's brother, he realizes that he can use this information as leverage: He wants Derval to switch sides and eventually succeeds in persuading her.
United Artists, Thunderball (1965)
Mie Hama: Kissy Suzuki
Bond Film: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Kissy Suzuki helps James Bond during his undercover mission. He pretends to be a fisherman and marries Suzuki in a fake wedding ceremony. This cover allows him to investigate the islands of Japan freely as he's no longer perceived as a visiting foreigner.
MGM, You Only Live Twice (1967)
Jill St John: Tiffany Case
Bond Film: Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The diamond smuggler Tiffany Case gets saved by James Bond's interference during a diamond exchange. She eventually switches sides and becomes loyal to him.
United Artists, Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Jane Seymour: Solitaire
Bond Film: Live and Let Die (1973)
As the psychic tarot card reader for the antagonist Dr Karanga, Solitaire foresees the plans of her employer's enemies, including Bond's movements. However, she has one weakness: If she ever makes love, she'll lose her psychic powers. Of course, James Bond ends up being her Achilles' heel.
United Artists, Live and Let Die (1973)
Barbara Bach: Anya Amasova
Bond Film: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Anya Amasova, AKA "Triple X", is a KGB agent. She begins working on the very same mission as James Bond—and they wind up joining forces.
United Artists, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Lois Chiles: Holly Goodhead
Bond Film: Moonraker (1979)
CIA undercover agent Holly Goodhead investigates the billionaire Hugo Drax, but she eventually gets found out. She ends up saving the day alongside Bond. The two of them journey to space to put an end to Drax's plan to destroy the human race.
United Artists, Moonraker (1979)
Serena Gordon: Caroline
Bond Film: Goldeneye (1995)
Employed by MI6 as a psychological evaluator, Caroline is supposed to size up James Bond. However, after accompanying him in a terrifying car race, she falls for his charms. Bond pulls out all the stops—even grabbing a bottle of champagne from inside the car's armrest.
United Artists, GoldenEye (1995)
Teri Hatcher: Paris Carver
Bond Film: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
James Bond's ex, Paris Carver, goes on to marry the antagonist, Elliot Carver. Bond attempts to romance Paris in order to get essential information. At first, she completely refuses to spill the beans—but eventually, she folds. Her husband ends up sending his henchman after her, and she doesn't survive.
United Artists, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Sophie Marceau: Elektra King
Bond Film: The World is Not Enough (1999)
Elektra King's father is the rich oil baron Sir Robert King. Following her capture by the villain Renard, King's father refuses to pay the ransom for her. This seals her dark fate. King begins to empathize with her kidnapper Renard and turns against her father, eventually taking his life.
MGM, The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Caterina Murino: Solange Dimitrios
Bond Film: Casino Royale (2006)
Solange Dimitrios is James Bond's first love interest in Casino Royale. Her husband, Alex Dimitrious, works for the antagonist, Le Chiffre. She spends the night with Bond, but she pays a high price for her involvement with him. Le Chiffre eventually targets her, and her body is found in a hammock.
Corinne Cléry: Corinne Dufour
Bond Film: Moonraker (1979)
Corinne Dufour works for Hugo Drax as his pilot and assistant. However, she makes a fatal mistake by becoming romantically involved with James Bond. She tells him where Drax's safe is. But when Drax discovers her betrayal, he sets his dogs on her and she doesn't survive.
United Artists, Moonraker (1979)
Maud Adams: Andrea Anders
Bond Film: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Andrea Anders is the girlfriend of the antagonist Francisco Scaramanga. She eventually betrays him, hoping that Bond will end Scaramanga's life and secure her freedom. Unfortunately for her, Scaramanga puts a bullet in her heart for her traitorous plans.
United Artists, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Gloria Hendry: Rosie Carver
Bond Film: Live and Let Die (1973)
Double agent Rosie Carver works for both the CIA and the antagonist, Dr Kananga. However, James Bond eventually tells her that he's found her out and she makes a run for it... She doesn't survive.
United Artists, Live and Let Die (1973)
Karin Dor: Helga Brandt
Bond Film: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Helga Brandt is a henchwoman who works for SPECTRE. She fakes falling for James Bond and then turns on him the very next morning. Unfortunately, when she fails to take out Bond, the head of SPECTRE takes care of her, throwing her to the piranhas.
United Artists, You Only Live Twice (1967)
Luciana Paluzzi: Fiona Volpe
Bond Film: Thunderball (1965)
Fiona Volpe is a talented henchwoman. However, she dies on the dancefloor while dancing with James Bond after a henchman tries to target Bond but misses, hitting her instead.
United Artists, Thunderball (1965)
Eunice Gayson: Sylvia Trench
Bond Film: Dr No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963)
In Dr No, Sylvia Trench has an unforgettable introduction—one that sets the tone for all the Bond films to come. She says, "Trench. Sylvia Trench". Of course, James Bond copies this exact phrasing for his own introduction: "Bond. James Bond".
