Enter Your Movie: Bond 50: Bond Girl (Part III)

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.

The Living Daylights (1987)

Kara Milovy

Occupation: Musician

Actress: Maryam d'Abo

James Bond has been informed that General Georgi Koskov is willing to defect from the Russians. As Koskov runs across the road to meet Bond, 007 spots a sniper, whom he recognizes as the beautiful cellist he spotted during a concert earlier. Defying his orders to kill her, Bond shoots the rifle out of her hands, only marginally injuring her.

Licence to Kill (1989)

Lupe Lamora

Occupation: Sanchez's Mistress

Actress: Talisa Soto

Lamora is Franz Sanchez's mistress and helps Bond win Sanchez's confidence in an effort to bring down his organization. Bond has to reject her at the end of the movie in favour of Pam Bouvier, though.

Pam Bouvier

Affiliation: Franz Sanchez, CIA

Actress: Carey Lowell

A former army pilot, Bouvier works as a CIA informer, posing as a courier for drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond tracks her down to a bar in Bimini, just in time to help her escape from Dario. She agrees to help Bond track down Sanchez, playing Bond's executive secretary. At the same time, she meets Colonel Heller to set up a deal granting him immunity if Sanchez is arrested.

GoldenEye (1995)

Natalya Simonova

Occupation: Level 2 programmer

Actress: Izabella Scorupco

Simonova is a Russian computer programmer and one of the two Severnaya survivors and teams up with Bond to help him to stop Alec Trevelyan's plan. She later helps him track down the villain's hidden base.

Xenia Onatopp

Occupation: Former Soviet Pilot, Enforcer

Actress: Famke Janssen

Onatopp, born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force. After the collapse of the USSR, she joined the crime syndicate Janus, led by renegade MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan. Her main characteristic is that she apparently can receive sexual satisfaction through killing. Her sadistic sexual proclivities, coupled with her overall lack of conscience as well as remorse for the deaths she causes, would seem to qualify her as a psychopath.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Paris Carver

Affiliation: Wife of Elliot Carver

Actress: Teri Hatcher

Carver is the villain's wife in Tomorrow Never Dies. She and Bond had a short-lived affair in the past. Elliot Carver eventually has her killed after she interacts with Bond a second time.

Wai Lin

Affiliation: Chinese Intelligence

Actress: Michelle Yeoh

Wai Lin is a spy for the Chinese People's External Security Force in the rank of colonel and skilled in martial arts. She first encounters Bond when she is sent (under the disguise as a Xinhua News Agency reporter) to investigate the disappearance of stealth material from a People's Liberation Army base that is connected to media mogul Elliot Carver's plan to start a war between the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom.

Wai Lin later learns that Bond was sent by MI6 to work on the same case. The two initially believe they have been ordered to kill each other, but eventually develop a wary mutual trust when they are both captured and imprisoned by Carver's secret partner, General Chang.

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Christmas Jones

Affiliation: IAEA

Actress: Denise Richards

Jones is a nuclear chemist that saves Bond's life on more than one occasion. She defuses the nuclear bomb that is set to blow up, foiling Renard's plan.

Elektra King

Occupation: Oil Tycoon

Actress: Sophie Marceau

Elektra is the daughter of Sir Robert King, whose mother's side of the family is of Azeri descent and fled the country immediately after the Soviet Union was established. he lies to Bond that she he is on his side throughout most of the movie. When Bond finds out she is sided with Renard, Bond doesn't hesitate to kill her in cold blood.

Cigar Girl

Actress: Maria Grazia Cuccinotta

The Cigar Girl seems to be an innocent beauty in the pre-title sequence but when Bond gets back to MI6 and Sir Robert King is killed, we find out that she is responsible for his death. Bond proceeds to pursue her in a spectacular boat chase down the River.

Die Another Day (2002)

Miranda Frost

Occupation: MI6 Agent

Actress: Rosamund Pike

Miranda Frost is a Harvard-educated, gold medal-winning Olympic fencer (trained by Verity) posing as Graves' publicist and fencing partner. She won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics by default, after Graves organized the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. She is sent by M to work alongside Bond, but does not approve of Bond's methods. Unfortunately for Bond, she is sided with Gustav Graves.

Jinx

Occupation: NSA Agent

Actress: Halle Berry

Jinx is the NSA's leading woman in Die Another Day. Although tough and hard-nosed, Jinx finds herself in trouble on a couple of occasions, with Bond coming to the rescue.

Casino Royale (2006)

Vesper Lynd

Actress: Eva Green

Vesper is introduced on a train headed to Montenegro with James Bond. They quip at each other and he establishes that she was an orphan who worked her way up to become a liaison from Her Majesty's Treasury to monitor MI6's finances in the high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale. Bond used her beauty during the game to distract the other players. Vesper reluctantly aided Bond in killing Obanno and suffered a breakdown in the shower, where Bond consoled her. The two then became lovers.

Solange

Actress: Caterina Murino

Bond meets this Italian beauty at his Bahama hotel while investigating the text message clue "ELLIPSIS" found on Mollaka's cell phone. Solange's boyfriend, Carlos, is the source of the message, and Bond quickly switches gears from lover to secret agent as soon as he leaves for Miami on a suspicious trip. Unfortunately for Solange, she "talked too much" and was found strangled in a hammock outside of the hotel.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Strawberry Fields

Occupation: MI6 Agent

Actress: Gemma Arterton

Agent Strawberry Fields is an MI6 agent who works at the British consulate in Bolivia in the 2008 film Quantum of Solace. She is described as always getting in Bond's way; in the film he seduces her. During a fundraiser at Dominic Greene's estate, Ms. Fields helps Bond escape by causing Greene's henchman Elvis to fall down the stairs. However she's drowned in crude oil by Quantum. Her naked, oil-covered body is left at the hotel room in which the two had slept together.

Camille Montes

Actress: Olga Kurylenko

Camille is of Russian-Bolivian descent. She first meets Bond in Haiti where she has her own agenda in killing General Medrano, due to the fact that he killed her family when she was only a girl (shooting her father in the head, then raping her mother and older sister before strangling them to death). She seduced Dominic Greene as a way to get to Medrano, but it didn't work. At first she clashes with Bond, but soon begins to realize he is the only one she can trust. They then team up and go after Greene and Medrano.

Skyfall (2012)

Severine

Occupation: Prostitute

Actress: Berenice Marlohe

Severine is an associate of the villain Raoul Silva in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall. Marlohe described her character as being "glamorous and enigmatic".

Eve

Occupation: MI6 Agent

Actress: Naomie Harris

Eve is an MI6 field agent, who during a mission with Bond in Turkey, ends up shooting 007 while he struggled with a henchmen atop a train. Afterwards she is suspended from field work. At the end of the movie, Eve states she is not fit for field work, and will remain only in a desk job at MI6. As Bond says that they have not been properly introduced, she says her full name is Eve Moneypenny.