Bond girl

A Bond girl is a character or the actress portraying a love interest or sex object of James Bond in a film, novel or video game. They typically have names that are double entendres, such as "Pussy Galore."

Trivia

• After the release of For Your Eyes Only (1981) a background actress in a pool scene, Tula, was revealed to be a transsexual.
• In Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel,Casino Royale, it is believed he based the Vesper Lynd character on real-life SOE agent, Christine Granville.
• In 2002, former Bond girl Maryam d'Abo co-wrote the book Bond Girls Are Forever: The Women of James Bond. This book later became a DVD exclusive documentary featuring d'Abo and other Bond girls, including Ursula Andress. In some locations, the documentary was released as a gift with the purchase of Die Another Day on DVD.
• Halle Berry and Kim Basinger are the only Oscar winners to play a Bond girl.
• After the release of Die Another Day, MGM and EON Productions considered creating a spinoff series featuring Halle Berry's Jinx character. Plans for this were cancelled in 2003.
• Early drafts of Die Another Day included an appearance by Wai Lin, but Michelle Yeoh was unavailble.
• Media reports for The World is Not Enough indicated the producers planned to include cameo appearances by every surviving Bond girl actress, ranging from Ursula Andress to Michelle Yeoh, but that did no occur; however, one "eye-candy" Bond girl was played by Eunice Gayson's daughter.
• Ursula Andress and Maud Adams remain, to date, the only actresses to have played more than one major Bond girl, although several other actresses have appeared more than once as "eye-candy" Bond girls.