Top 10 Best Bond Girls of All Time2Oct08

Jane Moneypenny is is secretary to M, James Bond’s boss. Totally dedicated to her work, she holds the rank of Second Officer in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She was played by Lois Maxwell in 14 of agent 007’s films and always kept with him a professional relationship, but with plenty of flirting and romantic tension.

Tiffany Case is a diamond smuggler who is an unknowing part of villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan. Played by Jill St. John in “Diamonds are Forever” (1971), she is deceived by James Bond, who initially hides his true identity from her but eventually reveals the truth and counts with the Bond girl’s assistance to get to the criminal.

In the 1981 movie “For Your Eyes Only”, Carole Bouquet plays the daughter of two British Secret Service agents who are killed by a Cuban assassin. Melina seeks revenge and eventually gets James Bond’s help in finding Aristotle Kristatos, the mastermind of the double murder.

Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, born Teresa “Tracy” Draco, was the only Bond girl to marry secret agent 007 in his movie adventures. Played by Diana Rigg in the 1969 movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, she ends up murdered by villain Irma Bunt on her very wedding day.

Solitaire is a young woman who is able to read the future in Tarot cards as long as she remains a virgin. Seduced by James Bond, she loses her skill and is captured by evil Dr. Kananga. Jane Seymour was 22 years old at the time of the 1973 movie “Live and Let Die”, which makes her the youngest actress to ever play a Bond girl.

Played by Barbara Bach, Major Anya Amasova is a KGB agent who intends to assassinate James Bond because he killed her lover. However, over the course of the movie “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977), she ends up falling in love with him.

In the 1964 movie “Goldfinger”, Pussy Galore is the leader of a group of professional women aviators named Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus. Played by actress Honor Blackman, she is an ally to villain Auric Goldfinger, but, seduced by James Bond, helps him to save Fort Knox.

Vesper Lynd is the first woman James Bond falls in love with, in the series of books by Ian Fleming. Played by Eva Green in the 2006 movie “Casino Royale”, she saves Bond’ life during the movie, but turns out to be a double agent who betrays the spy’s trust.

Played by Ursula Andress in the 1962 movie “Dr. No”, Honeychile Ryder is a Jamaican shell diver who gets involved with James Bond and is captured with him by Dr. Julius No, who has killed her father. Her initial appearance, when she leaves the ocean singing “Under the Mango Tree”, is one of the most famous scenes in movie history.

Xenia Zargevna Onatopp was born in in the former Soviet republic of Georgia and joined the criminal organization Janus after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Played by actress Famke Janssen in the 1995 movie “GoldenEye”, she feels sexual pleasure as she kills her victims by squeezing them between her powerful thighs.