From Pussy Galore to Halle Berry’s glamorous assassin, vote for YOUR most iconic Bond girl of all time
THEY’RE known for their saucy names and even saucier outfits, but Bond girls are just as legendary as 007 himself.
From Honey Ryder and Pussy Galore to Xenia Onatopp, the sassy ladies who have turned James Bond’s head now number 75 in total.
This week, a Radio Times poll named Sean Connery as the UK’s favourite Bond, and it threw up a few surprises, with incumbent Daniel Craig being beaten by Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.
But who is your favourite Bond girl?
Here, we’ve narrowed it down to 20 stunning actresses you can vote for.
Take your pick from each of the four groups below, and we’ll reveal the glamorous star who most stole our hearts over the last 60 years.
Halle Berry – Die Another Day
Starring as Jinx Johnson, opposite Pierce Brosnan’s suave spy, Halle spent a good deal of her time in a bikini and upped her fan base in the process.
But she wasn’t just a pretty face. Jinx was a trained assassin sent to kill a North Korean agent, and bedded Bond to get the information she needed to carry out her deadly task.
Gemma Arterton – Quantum Of Solace
The British actress starred opposite Daniel Craig in the 2008 film, playing the fruitily named Strawberry Fields.
Sadly it wasn’t Strawberry Fields forever – as she drowned in a vat of oil halfway through the film.
Lea Seydoux – Spectre
The latest movie on release starred the French actress as Dr Madeleine Swann, daughter of the mysterious SPECTRE boss Mr White.
She made such an impression on bosses and fans she’s returning in delayed sequel No Time To Die.
Michelle Yeoh – Tomorrow Never Dies
A whizz in a motorbike chase and a dab hand at martial arts, Michelle Yeoh’s character Wai Lin led Pierce Brosnan into all manner of deadly situations.
This Bond girl was as kickass as they come.
Maud Adams – Octopussy
British actress Maud was so good she got to play TWO Bond girls.
The first was Andrea Anders, the mistress of evil genius Scaramanga in The Man With The Golden Gun, in 1974.
On her return, seven years later, she had become the villain in her own right, playing Octopussy in the film of the same name.
Ursula Andress – Dr No
Shell diver Honey Ryder emerged from the sea wearing a bikini and knife belt in an iconic moment from the first Bond film.
Despite not being the first screen conquest for Sean Connery’s 007, the Swiss actress became widely regarded as the first Bond girl.
Denise Richards – The World is Not Enough
Denise had both brains and beauty as scientist Dr Christmas Jones, whose name appears to have been chosen for one of the corniest final lines in Bond history.
After bedding the beauty Pierce Brosnan’s spy utters the immortal line: “I thought Christmas only comes once a year.”
Lana Wood – Diamonds Are Forever
Another Bond girl with an outrageous name, Plenty O’Toole is a casino worker whose speciality is bedding wealthy men.
She snuggles up to Sean Connery’s Bond, who is posing as a diamond smuggler in the 1971 movie.
Rosamund Pike – Die Another Day
The appropriately named Miranda Frost is an ice cold killer who works for M but is secretly aligned to diamond smuggler Gustave Graves.
She meets a sticky end at the hands of love rival Jinx, played by Halle Berry.
Jane Seymour – Live and Let Die
For a character named Solitaire, Jane Seymour’s Bond Girl spends little time alone after meeting 007 and ending up in his bed.
A voodoo medium whose psychic powers depend on her virginity, she is seduced by Roger Moore’s Bond and loses her unique gift in the process.
Britt Ekland – The Man With The Golden Gun
The stunning Swedish actress, then married to comedian Peter Sellers, played Bond’s personal assistant Mary Goodnight.
Needless to say her duties went beyond taking notes and keeping his diary – and a ‘good night’ was had by all.
Honor Blackman – Goldfinger
By far the most outlandish name of all the girls, Pussy Galore was played by British Avengers star Honor Blackman.
The only female organised crime boss in the US, Pussy ran a ring of trapeze artists turned cat burglars known as the Acrocats.
But she turned into a kitten in the hands of Sean Connery’s agent.
Barbara Bach – The Spy Who Loved Me
American actress Barbara – now married to Ringo Starr – played Anya Amasova, a KGB spy who attempts to murder Bond on their first meeting.
Inevitably, the pair end up as lovers, and the film ends with them floating off to sea in an escape pod after defeating evil Russian Karl Stromberg at his secret sea base.
Olga Kurylenko – Quantum of Solace
French beauty Olga plays Camille Montes, opposite Daniel Craig, in the 2008 movie.
A Bolivian out for revenge on a brutal general who murdered her family, she is rescued from being raped and murdered in a desert by chivalrous Bond.
Daniela Bianchi – From Russia With Love
The Italian model played Tatiana Romanova, a corporal in the Russian secret service who poses as a translator at the Russian embassy in Istanbul before bedding James Bond.
Daniela’s accent was deemed so thick she was actually dubbed with the voice of Brit Barbara Jefford.
Shirley Eaton – Goldfinger
Brit actress Shirley was hailed as a sex symbol after suffering the most famous Bond girl fate in the franchise.
Her character, Jill Masterson, was murdered by being covered in gold paint from head to toe – causing “skin suffocation.”
The iconic scene sparked a rumour she had died in filming, and she even appeared on a 2003 TV show to dispel the myth.
Famke Janssen – GoldenEye
The Dutch actress found International fame as the absurdly named Xenia Onatopp, a brutal assassin who murders her victims with a deadly thigh-grip, climaxing as they die.
She went on to play Jean Grey in the X-Men series and star in Nip/Tuck.
Eva Green – Casino Royale
Vesper Lynd, played by the French actress in Daniel Craig’s first Bond movie, is a MI5 double agent whose kidnapping is staged by her Russian KGB bosses to lure Bond into a trap.
Lothario Bond meets his match and falls in love, but she tragically drowns in a flooded building, consumed with guilt over her betrayal.
Grace Jones – A View To A Kill
One of the deadliest Bond girls, May Day, played by singer Grace Jones, is a henchwoman to villain Zorin.
Seemingly blessed with superhuman strength, she thinks nothing of lobbing men – including Roger Moore – through the air to protect her man.
Sophie Marceau – The World is Not Enough
French beauty Sophie starred as arch villain Elektra King, who plans to blow up a city and an oil pipeline owned by her magnate father.
After becoming Bond’s lover she taunts him, saying he could never kill her because “you’d miss me”.
Pierce Brosnan’s 007 pulls the trigger regardless, with the quip “I never miss.”
