A Bond girl is a character or the actress portraying a love interest or sex object of James Bond in a film. Generally, Bond girls are victims rescued by Bond, fellow agents or allies, villainesses or members of an enemy organization, or merely eye candy that have no direct interaction with James Bond whatsoever.
The role of a Bond girl is typically a high-profile part that can give a major boost to the career of unestablished actresses, although there have been a number of Bond girls that were well-established prior to gaining their role. There is no set rule on who a Bond girl will be or what role she will play. She may be ally or enemy, pivotal to the mission or simply eye candy.
Live and Let Die (1973)
Solitaire
Actress: Jane Seymour
Solitaire is a psychic in the employ of Dr. Kananga. As Bond travels to New York by plane, Solitaire describes his journey to Dr. Kananga through the use of Tarot cards. The one drawback to her ability is that she must remain a virgin in order to preserve it. She eventually gains freedom from her egotistical boss, however, thanks to Bond.
Rosie Carver
Affiliation: Mr. Big / Kananga
Actress: Gloria Hendry
She is a rogue CIA agent who is secretly an underling of Kananga, aka "Mr. Big", who sends her to kill 007. When arriving at a hotel in San Monique, Bond is surprised to learn that "Mrs. Bond" has already booked into the suite. She acts erratically and is eventually killed by Kananga. Rosie Carver is Bond's first on-screen black love interest. Her character was initially written as a white woman before the producers made the switch.
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Mary Goodnight
Occupation: Field Operative
Actress: Britt Ekland
Miss Goodnight is a Secret Service staffer, more ditzy than in the novels, who assists Bond when he is following Andrea Anders in Hong Kong. Very quickly it is established that she has as-yet unfulfilled desires on Bond.
Andrea Anders
Affiliation: Scaramanga
Actress: Maud Adams
Anders is Scaramanga's girlfriend and sees Bond as her savior from her boyfriend's grasp. She tries to steal the Solex Agitator for Bond, but is killed when Scaramanga finds out. Maud Adams returned to the Bond series as the title character in Octopussy.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Anya Amasova
Occupation: Soviet Agent
Actress: Barbara Bach
Amasova is a Russian agent who teams up with Bond. She is code-named XXX, and out-thinks 007 on more than one occassion. Barbara Bach, better known as the wife of Ringo Starr, manages to play both the strong secret agent and the damsel in distress.
Naomi
Actress: Caroline Munro
Naomi is Stromberg's helicopter pilot with a deadly aim and tries to gun 007 and XXX down in their Lotus Esprit. She wasn't aware of the car's underwater defensive capabilities, however.
Moonraker (1979)
Holly Goodhead
Affiliation: CIA
Goodhead is one of the most intelligent Bond girls, as she is a NASA trained astrophysicist working for the CIA. In Moonraker she teams up with Bond to save the world from Hugo Drax's madness and pilots the shuttle to the villain's hidden space station.
Corinne Dufour
Occupation: Pilot and Personal Assistant
Actress: Corinne Clery
She first appears when Bond arrives in Los Angeles to investigate Drax: she pilots the helicopter that collects Bond from Los Angeles International airport, apprising him of general information about the Drax Corporation during the flight. She then escorts Bond to meet Holly Goodhead. She helps Bond find a secret safe in Drax's compound. Mr. Drax, however, does not appreciate her sweet nature and has her hunted down with a pack of vicious dogs.
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Melina Havelock
Affiliation: Independent
In the film, Melina Havelock is half Greek, half British. She is the only daughter of Iona and Sir Timothy Havelock, two operatives working for the British Secret Service. Their mission takes them to the coast of Albania and Greece to look for a sunken British spy ship that holds a piece of equipment known as ATAC (Automatic Targeting and Attack Communicator). Melina comes to visit them and is witness to their brutal assassination by Hector Gonzales, a Cuban hitman.
Lisl von Schlaf
Actress: Cassandra Harris
Lisl is Columbo's girlfriend and Bond's one-night affair. She is eventually killed during a morning walk on the beach by Emile Locque.
Bibi Dahl
Occupation: Ice-skater
Actress: Lynn-Holly Johnson
Bibi is the ice-skating protégée of Aris Kristatos, training in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo. Though Kristatos and her trainer, Jakoba Brink, believe she is sexually innocent, she is in fact anything but. She tries to seduce James Bond countless times and in a vulgar sense, she claims Kristatos and Brink still thinks she's a virgin. At the end of the movie, Bibi courageously faces her madman of an uncle and asks where Brink is but when disobeying his order, she gets a hard slap to the face.
Octopussy (1983)
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Octopussy
Occupation: Jewel smuggler
Actress: Maud Adams
Octopussy is a jewel smuggler who lives a life of luxury. Her father studied octopi, hence the nickname Octopussy; her real name is unknown. Octopussy owns her own circus and floating palace in which she lives. Magda, the ring leader of the circus, works with her and, together, they work with Kamal Khan to get a Faberge egg from General Orlov. Maud Adams also played Scaramanga's girlfriend in The Man With The Golden Gun.
Magda
Actress: Kristina Wayborn
The leader of the Octopussy circus and Kamal Khan's girlfriend, Magda seduces Bond to get the Faberge egg back. She also has a tattoo of a baby octopus on her back.
A View to a Kill (1985)
Stacey Sutton
Occupation: State Geologist
Actress: Tanya Roberts
Sutton is a Californian geologist who's grandfather found Sutton Oil. She is paid off by Max Zorin for the old mines Zorin needs for his Project Main Strike. Bond meets Stacey at Zorin's party and later she helps him to unravel Zorin's nefarious plan.
May Day
Occupation: Bodyguard, Enforcer
Actress: Grace Jones
May Day is the henchwoman and lover of chief villain Max Zorin. She is portrayed as the head of an all-female group of guards for Zorin. She also has superhuman strength; in one scene, she lifts a man over her head with no apparent effort. Bond chases her up the Eiffel Tower only to see her dramatically escape by skydiving. Finally, after realizing Zorin has betrayed her, MayDay gives her life to stop the villain's plan.
Pola Ivanova
Occupation: Soviet Agent
Actress: Fiona Fullerton
A Soviet agent from Bond's past, Pola Ivanova is spying on Max Zorin's testing facility, when her partner is caught and executed. Bond and Ivanova fight on dry land until they recognise each other.
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