Penelope Cruz 'to be the oldest ever Bond girl' - who's your fav?

scottcarter · Jun 3, 2013

[h=1]Penelope Cruz 'to be the oldest ever Bond girl' when she stars in the 24th film aged 40[/h]

Penelope Cruz is set to become the oldest Bond girl ever – at the age of 40.
The Spanish actress, who is pregnant with her second child with actor husband Javier Bardem, will start work on the as yet unnamed 24th Bond movie next summer.

She will be 40 next April.

In the pink: Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is perfect for the role as she is 'brainy and sexy'

A source close to the production of the £100 million film, likely to be directed by Sam Mendes after his success with Skyfall, said: ‘The producers have tried to get Penelope before, but she has never been available because of other commitments.
‘The discussions have been going on for some time and they are working out the contract details now.’

Cruz will take the title of oldest Bond girl from British actress Honor Blackman, who was 39 when she appeared in 1962’s Goldfinger as Pussy Galore, one of the most memorable Bond girls ever.
Oscar-winner Cruz, who won Best Supporting Actress for her part in the 2008 Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, has spoken of her desire to challenge herself in her career, saying: ‘I like to take roles that stretch and excite me.

Box office hit: The last film, Skyfall, starred Daniel Craig as James Bond who is 45 himself

‘I do what I enjoy doing and want to continually grow as an actress. I like to do all sorts of work.’

Cruz, who already has a two-year-old son, Leo, is due to give birth any day now.

The source said: ‘She got back into shape fast after the first baby and will no doubt regain her figure quickly this time.

Memorable: Sean Connery and Honor Blackman, who was 39 in Goldfinger

‘She’ll be a great Bond girl. Bond girls are always brainy as well as sexy, and that’s totally Penelope.’

Cruz and Bardem started dating in 2007 and married in July 2010 in the Bahamas.

They are one of Hollywood’s most low-key couples, shunning the red carpet and preferring to spend most of their time in their native Spain.

Bond Couple: Penelope Cruz's husband Javier Bardem has already starred in a Bond film, Skyfall

Mendes last week said he was in talks to direct the next two Bond movies, which will mark the end of Daniel Craig’s run as 007.

Singer Adele, who won an Oscar for the theme tune to Skyfall, is currently working on her new album.

She has told producers it is ‘too early’ to discuss whether she will be available to perform another Bond song.

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festeringZit · Apr 6, 2020

[h=1]'James Bond' star Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore, dead at 94[/h]

Honor Blackman, the actress best known as Pussy Galore in the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger,” has died at age 94.
Blackman's family said in a statement to Fox News Monday that she died peacefully of natural causes at her home in the southeastern England town of Lewes.
Her family noted that she was an "adored mother and grandmother” and a 'hugely prolific creative talent."
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“It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman aged 94. She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family. She was much loved and will be greatly missed by her two children Barnaby and Lottie, and grandchildren Daisy, Oscar, Olive and Toby,” the statement reads. “As well as being a much-adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent; with an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment and with absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.”

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Actress Honor Blackman, who starred alongside Sean Connery in 'Goldfinger' has died. (John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

In addition to her role alongside Sean Connery’s James Bond, Blackman is also known for her role as Cathy Gale in the 1960s TV show, “The Avengers.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, she actually left the TV show after two seasons in order to take on the big screen role as Pussy Galore. Her character was effectively replaced by “Game of Thrones” actress Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.
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In “Goldfinger,” Blackman made an impression from the start. When introduced to Sean Connery's Bond, he replies, “I must be dreaming.”
Her family's statement highlighted other roles, such as Hera in “Jason and the Argonauts” and Laura West in the 1990s sitcom “The Upper Hand.” In addition to her on-screen work, Blackman also had success on stage in productions that included “The Sound of Music,” “My Fair Lady” and “Cabaret.”

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Actress and singer Honor Blackman has died at age 94. (Rosie Greenway/Getty Images)

"In recent years Honor was touring and performing in her show ‘Honor Blackman as herself’ at various venue across the UK. In conversation with her colleague and friend Richard Digby Day she looked back over her astonishing life, her beginnings, her family, her rise to stardom with her usual sense of humour and perspective," the statement added.

Willie99 · Apr 6, 2020

I think Halle Barry was a Bond Girl, so she would be my favorite

Always looks good, always put together, and beautiful

PS: I've never heard anything about her having a liberal pig vomit mouth either, so that helps

festeringZit · Apr 6, 2020

Willie99 said:
I think Halle Barry was a Bond Girl, so she would be my favorite

Always looks good, always put together, and beautiful

PS: I've never heard anything about her having a liberal pig vomit mouth either, so that helps

Great choice.

Dave007inVegas · Apr 6, 2020

That one's easy. Ursula Andress. She ain't much to look at now but back then, yes!

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shdw01 · Apr 6, 2020

I thought penelope cruz was older than 40. damn...she isn't old at all

festeringZit · Apr 6, 2020

shdw01 said:
I thought penelope cruz was older than 40. damn...she isn't old at all

Thread was started in 2013

busterhyman · Apr 6, 2020

festeringZit said:
Great choice.

agree...also liked that sophia chick

CarolinaKid · Apr 6, 2020

^^^^^^ i never like her and she was pick almost at the bottom of the bond list

CarolinaKid · Apr 6, 2020

<body id="cke_pastebin" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; left: -1000px;">by ncsudreamweaver | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]created - 05 Mar 2018 | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]updated - 8 months ago[/COLOR] | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Public[/COLOR][/COLOR]This is my ranking of the main Bond Girls from all 24 official James Bond movies. Each of the Bond movies have multiple female characters, but for this list I am only ranking the main Bond girl that is a love interest/ally of James Bond in each movie. Therefore, you will not see great female characters like Fiona Volpe, Elektra King, & Xenia Onatopp on this list. However, they do appear on my list of the Top 10 Female James Bond Villains: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls023179369/. Please share your comments; and if you have your own list, share that too!

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[h=3]1. Honor Blackman[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Goldfinger
Comparing this sultry-eyed blonde to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich may seem a bit overzealous, but Honor Blackman's stylish allure over the years cannot be denied.

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End to a statistician father employed with the civil service and a homemaker ...

Pussy Galore in Goldfinger

[h=3]2. Eva Green[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Casino Royale[/COLOR]
French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French...

Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale

[h=3]3. Diana Rigg[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | On Her Majesty's Secret Service[/COLOR]
British actress Dame Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England. She has had an extensive career in film and theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Rigg made her ...

Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

[h=3]4. Ursula Andress[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Dr. No[/COLOR]
The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of six children in a strict German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had an impetuous ...

Honey Ryder in Dr. No

[h=3]5. Jane Seymour[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman[/COLOR]
Jane Seymour was born as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in 1951 in Middlesex, England, to a nurse mother and gynaecologist/obstetrician father. She is of Polish Jewish (father) and Dutch (mother) descent. She adopted the acting name of "Jane Seymour" when she entered show business as it was ...

Solitaire in Live And Let Die

[h=3]6. Claudine Auger[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Thunderball[/COLOR]
Claudine Auger, a former Miss France 1st Runner-up (1958), received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette "Domino" opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965), She has kept fairly busy since her ...

Domino Derval in Thunderball

[h=3]7. Daniela Bianchi[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | From Russia with Love[/COLOR]
Daniela Bianchi is an Italian actress, best known for her role of Bond girl Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love (1963). She Finished 1st Runner Up in Miss Universe 1960 Competition, enough to get the attentions of Bond movie producers who chose her over 200 female prospects for the role of ...

Tatiana Romanova in From Russia With Love

[h=3]8. Barbara Bach[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me[/COLOR]
Barbara Bach was born Barbara Ann Goldbach on August 27, 1947 in Queens, New York City, to Howard I. Goldbach, a policeman, Jewish from a family from Germany, Austria and Romania, and wife Marjorie ..., Irish Catholic. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a ...

Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me

[h=3]9. Izabella Scorupco[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | GoldenEye[/COLOR]
Born in the northern Polish town of Bialystok, Izabella Scorupco moved to Sweden with her mother as a young child. She studied drama and music and, at 17, was discovered by a Swedish film director who cast her in the movie Ingen kan älska som vi (1988), which made her a local teen idol. She ...

Natalya Simonova in Goldeneye

[h=3]10. Carey Lowell[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Licence to Kill[/COLOR]
Daughter of an important geologist, petroleum exploration geologist James David Lowell, Carey Lowell has traveled around the world since she was very young. She spent her childhood in Libya. After living in several countries, she went back to the States, where she became a model, appreciated by ...

Pam Bouvier in License To Kill

[h=3]11. Michelle Yeoh[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Wo hu cang long[/COLOR]
Born as Yang Zi Qiong in the mining town of Ipoh, in West Malaysia, in the lunar year of the Tiger, Michelle is the daughter of Janet Yeoh and Yeoh Kian Teik, a lawyer and politician. She is of Han Chinese (Hokkien) descent, and spoke English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since age 4, ...

Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies

[h=3]12. Lois Chiles[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Moonraker[/COLOR]
Lois Chiles was born April 15, 1947 in Houston, Texas as the eldest child to a prominent couple, Barbara Wayne Kirkland and Marion Clay Chiles. She was raised with her younger brothers Bill and Clay in Alice, Texas, and received higher education at the University of Texas at Austin, and Finch ...

Holly Goodhead in Moonraker

[h=3]13. Carole Bouquet[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | For Your Eyes Only[/COLOR]
Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model. She is best known for played Bond girl Melina Havelock in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981).

She also starred in That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Nemo (1984), The Bridge (1999) and Do Not Disturb (2014).

In 2017 she starred in the...

Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only

[h=3]14. Maud Adams[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Octopussy[/COLOR]
Stunning Swedish born ex-model who broke into film in 1970, and quickly appeared in several high profile films including playing the ex-wife of James Caan in the futuristic Rollerball (1975) and the ill-fated lover of super-assassin Francisco Scaramanga played by Christopher Lee in The Man with the...

Octopussy in Octopussy

[h=3]15. Léa Seydoux[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | La vie d'Adèle[/COLOR]
French actress Léa Seydoux was born in 1985 in Paris, France, to Valérie Schlumberger, a philanthropist, and Henri Seydoux, a businessman. Her grandfather, Jérôme Seydoux, is chairman of Pathé, and her father is a great-grandson of businessman and inventor Marcel Schlumberger (her mother also ...

Madeleine Swann in Spectre

[h=3]16. Jill St. John[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Diamonds Are Forever[/COLOR]
An incredible piece of 1960s eye candy, Jill St. John absolutely smoldered on the big screen, a trendy presence in lightweight comedy, spirited adventure and spy intrigue who appeared alongside some of Hollywood's most handsome male specimens. Although she was seldom called upon to do much more ...

Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever

[h=3]17. Maryam d'Abo[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | The Living Daylights[/COLOR]
Born in London, England and raised in European cities such as Paris and Geneva, Maryam d'Abo has rewarded audiences with her beauty and presence for over twenty years. Maryam first appeared in Xtro (1982), a gory horror film that is considered a cult entry in the genre. She appeared consistently ...

Kara Milovy in The Living Daylights

[h=3]18. Britt Ekland[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | The Man with the Golden Gun[/COLOR]
Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a ...

Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun

[h=3]19. Halle Berry[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Catwoman[/COLOR]
Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was African-American, and worked as a hospital attendant. Her mother, Judith Ann (Hawkins), who is Caucasian, has English and German ancestry, and is a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle has an older sister, Heidi Berry. Halle ...

Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson in Die Another Day

[h=3]20. Bérénice Marlohe[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Skyfall[/COLOR]
French actress Bérénice Marlohe first came to international attention when she was cast as the glamorous and enigmatic Severin in the twenty-third Bond film Skyfall (2012), alongside Daniel Craig which grossed over 1.11 billion dollars worldwide. Marlohe will continue to expand her presence in the ...

Severine in Skyfall

[h=3]21. Olga Kurylenko[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | Oblivion[/COLOR]
Olga Kurylenko, a Ukrainian-born actress and model, went from sharing a cramped flat with her aunt, uncle, grandparents and cousin to starring as a Bond girl opposite Daniel Craig.

She was born Olga Konstantinovna Kurylenko on November 14, 1979, in Berdyansk, Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, ...

Camille Montes in Quantum Of Solace

[h=3]22. Denise Richards[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | The World Is Not Enough[/COLOR]
Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside...

Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough

[h=3]23. Mie Hama[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | You Only Live Twice[/COLOR]
Mie Hama was born in Tokyo, Japan on November 20, 1943 in a blue-collar Tokyo family whose small cardboard factory burned down in World War II. She grew up poor. She first started out working as a bus fare collector. While working, she was spotted by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka when she was only ...

Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice

[h=3]24. Tanya Roberts[/h][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Actress | A View to a Kill[/COLOR]
Tanya Roberts came from modest beginnings in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of a pen salesman (Irish) and a mother (Jewish) who were divorced before she reached high school. Tanya dropped out of high school at age 15, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the ...

Stacey Sutton in A View To A Kill

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by ncsudreamweaver | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]created - 05 Mar 2018 | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]updated - 8 months ago[/COLOR] | [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)]Public[/COLOR][/COLOR]This is my ranking of the main Bond Girls from all 24 official James Bond movies. Each of the Bond movies have multiple female characters, but for this list I am only ranking the main Bond girl that is a love interest/ally of James Bond in each movie. Therefore, you will not see great female characters like Fiona Volpe, Elektra King, & Xenia Onatopp on this list. However, they do appear on my list of the Top 10 Female James Bond Villains: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls023179369/. Please share your comments; and if you have your own list, share that too!

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