Saturday, December 25, 2010

Predator & Prey - Bond Girls

By L. Anthony Cervantes
Eva Green eyeballs Daniel Craig in Casino Royale 
Sometimes predator, sometimes prey, the sultry, sexy and always bold women in the 007 franchise never fail to deliver in their own, patented, inimitable way. On the silver screen, Bond Girls are a breed apart and a species all their own, compliments the creative hand of Ian Fleming.

It's important to always appreciate not only of the female form and style, but principally the mind and psyche that drives the world of dynamic women. Here we celebrate the femme fatale with a selection of favorite Bond Girls in…


Olga Kurylenko, born November 14, 1979, is a Ukrainian actress and model. She is perhaps best known as Bond girl Camille Montes on a mission of revenge in the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace where she played opposite Daniel Craig.


Eva Green is a French actress born 5 July 1980. She was raised in Paris and lives part time in London. She has been noted by Vogue for her “killer looks, intelligence and modesty. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in The Dreamers (2003), which generated controversy over her numerous nude scenes. She achieved greater fame for her parts in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale wherein she played opposite Daniel Craig and meets a grisly end as his love interest Vesper Lynd.
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French actress Sophie Marceau was born 17 November 1966 and has appeared in 35 films including as 007’s principle antagonist Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough (1999) wherein she attempts to corner the world’s oil trade with a nuclear explosion. Marceau received international acclaim for her 1995 role as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.



Caterina Murino is an Italian actress born 15 September 1977 in Caliari, Sardinia. She meets a cruel fate as protagonist Dimitrios wife and 007’s lover, Solange, in Casino Royale (2006).


Denise Richards, born February 17, 1971, is an American/Croatian actress and former fashion model. She achieved success during the late 1990s in several films that highlighted her sex appeal, including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough in which she plays nuclear physicist and 007 colleague Dr. Christmas Jones.


Talisha Soto of Italian, Irish and Puerto Rican descent, was born March 27, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York. Talisa plays Lupe Lamora, promiscuous mistress of super villain Franz Sanchez in License to Kill (1989) with Timothy Dalton.



American actress Halle Berry is a former fashion model and Miss USA Runner-Up. Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster’s Ball. She is one of the most highly paid actresses in Hollywood . Halle Berry plays NSA agent and 007 protégé Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson in Die Another Day (2002) opposite Pierce Brosnan.
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Gemma Artherton, born 12 January 1986, is an English actress who plays 007’s ill fated colleague and lover Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.


Cecilie Thomsen, born 29 October 1974 in Bogø, Denmark, is a Danish actress and popular model. She is internationally best known for playing 007 colleague, professor Inga Bergstrom opposite Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).


Teri Hatcher, born December 8, 1964 in Palo Alto, California, is best known for her roles as Susan Mayer on the TV show Desperate Housewives, Lois Lane on the show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Paris Carver, erstwhile 007 girlfriend and subsequent wife of super villain Elliot Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.


Madeline Smith born 2 August 1949 in Hartfield, Sussex is an English actress-comedian, who was a model in the 1960s. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Smith was considered by many to be very photogenic. Madeline played Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s first Bond film.


Famke Janssen, born November 5, 1964, is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She played the villainess Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, and Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film franchise.


Izabella Scorupco born June 4, 1970, Białystok, Poland, is a Polish-Swedish actress who is most famous for appearing as Bond girl Natalya Simonova in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. She is the first Polish-born actress to play a Bond girl.

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