Voting. Choosing the best James Bond girl

The British weekly Radio Times ranked the best performers of the role of James Bond. According to the results of a poll of readers, the first line was Sean Connery – the actor played Agent 007 in the premiere film in 1962.

However, the viewers’ eyes are attracted not only by the charismatic protagonist, but also by his companions. Each – with a unique character and its own zest, but all of them could boast a trim figure and excellent physical form – to run away from the villains, jump out of an airplane and fight is not so easy.

We remembered 10 of the brightest actresses who played the role of Bond’s girlfriend, and we suggest you to choose the best one.

Eunice Gayson

Eunice Gayson played the first girlfriend of the special agent Sylvia Trench. With her we meet in the films “Dr. No” and “From Russia with Love”. She was supposed to become a constant companion of Bond, but in the end the creators of the picture abandoned the idea.

Also Gayson played in the theater – for several years she played the role of Baroness in the musical “The Sound of Music” and sang on stage. Paradoxically, but in both parts of Bond, the audience hears not her voice – the actress was re-voiced.

Daniela Bianchi

The role of the Bond girl in “From Russia with Love” became the most significant in the career of Daniela Bianchi. Although the world fame she found earlier. In 1960, the girl received the title of Vice-Miss Universe and the title of “Miss Photography”. It was the photographers who noticed her and invited her to star in a movie.

After Bond, Bianchi played the main role in the action movie “Lady Chaplin’s Special Mission”, and the image of a special agent became her permanent role.

Martin Beswick

Martin Beswick managed to play the girlfriend of Agent 007 twice. And it was two different heroines: a gypsy Zora in “From Russia with Love” and Paula Kaplan in “Ball Lightning”. In addition, the dancing silhouette from the opening credits to the first Bond also belongs to Beswick.

Three different looks within the same universe is a record for any actress ever to star in a James Bond movie.

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh played the colonel of Chinese intelligence Wei Lin. She embodied the image of a special agent, not inferior to Bond in strength and agility. After the release of the movie channel MTV even nominated her for an award for “Best Fight with the bad guys”.

By the way, all the stunts on the set Michelle Yeoh still performs independently, and many of them develops himself. She began her acting career in films about martial arts – in “Police Story 3” actress starred with Jackie Chan. Perhaps he taught her to effectively deal with the villains in the frame.

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau played in the 19th part of the movie saga about the special agent MI6. Her character Elektra at first seemed to be a victim of kidnapping, but in fact was the organizer of the crime. In the frame Marceau skiing, participating in shootouts and losing a million dollars in the casino.

For her role in “And the whole world is not enough” Marceau was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Halle Berry

Halle Berry played the role of a national security agent. The movie “Die But Not Now” with her participation was released in the year of the 40th anniversary of Bond, so there are many references to the beginning of the story. Including the famous scene when the Bond girl in a bikini comes out of the water. In 1961, Ursula Anders appeared in such a shot. And Halle Berry repeated this iconic episode.

In one of the final scenes, her heroine enters a shootout, drives an airplane, and then fights with a rival on rapiers. This girl was probably one of the most experienced and trained fighters of all Agent 007’s girlfriends.

Eva Green

Eva Green’s heroine Vesper Lynd is Bond’s one true love and perhaps the bravest of his girlfriends. She sacrifices her life to save Agent 007, and throughout the next movie he tries to avenge the death of his beloved.

When Green was offered the role in 2005, she initially turned it down, but later still decided to take it. And did it so well that Entertainment Weekly magazine included her in the list of “the best Bond girls of all time”. Eva Green managed to embody in her heroine the best qualities of all the previous companions of the special agent. To be more precise, because the story of “Casino Royale” is a return to the very beginning of James Bond’s career.

Olga Kurylenko

Olga Kurylenko also plays in the Bondiana agent of the ravezdki – Camille Montes. She got the role of the most unapproachable girl that Bond dated. By the end of the movie, they never really get into a relationship. We can say that Montes – a kind of double agent 007. Like Bond, she avenges her loved ones.

For her work in “Quantum of Mercy” Kurylenko was nominated for three different movie awards as best actress.

Naomie Harris

Naomie Harris’ character, Ms. Moneypenny is different from the other Bond girls. She is the secretary of M, the head of MI6, and appears in almost all parts of the Bond franchise. That being said, Eve Moneypenny does not become the special agent’s lover, she is more of an associate. With Harris, this character played with new colors.

“I have always played strong women, just beautiful never interested me. My heroine side by side fights with Bond, she is Bond herself in a skirt!”, – said the actress in an interview.

Lea Seydoux

Seydoux played Bond’s companion in the last so far part of the Bondiana. The next – “No Time to Die” was to be released in 2020, but the premiere was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lea had to give the image of Bond girl new features. And she has succeeded. She looks like a deeper and more subtle nature than her predecessors. Shootouts and chases are clearly not for her.

In the new movie we will again see Madeleine Swann played by a French actress – her story is not over yet.