# Your favorite Bond Girl? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551 "2008-11-13T16:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/1 "2008-11-13T16:56:04Z")
_Quantum of Solace_ opens here tomorrow and in honor of that I ask you: Who is your favorite Bond girl? I am having trouble deciding between Halle Barre and Kim Basinger. Although likely I have forgotten a couple dozen more that I like. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/2 "2008-11-13T17:02:27Z")
Jane Seymour, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/3 "2008-11-13T17:09:13Z")
Christmas Jones (Denise Richards) No wait. Vespa. Eva Green is near perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/4 "2008-11-13T17:10:53Z")
Contessa Theresa “Tracy” di Vincenza-Bond, the only Bond babe charming enough to get him to say “I do” at the altar (even if it was only George Lazenby). And why wouldn’t Bond fall for her, when she was played by none other than Diana Rigg? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/5 "2008-11-13T17:14:06Z")
Ooooooooo, that’s tough. So many to choose from! For me, it’d come down to Barbara Bach as the Soviet agent from _The Spy Who Loved Me_, and Lois Chiles as the NASA scientist from _Moonraker_. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/6 "2008-11-13T17:15:26Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > … No wait. Vespa. Eva Green is near perfect. Nitpick: it’s “Vesper.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/7 "2008-11-13T17:18:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nitpick: it’s “Vesper.” :smack: I even went to imdb to get the actress’ name. I completely failed to notice the difference in mine and imdb’s spelling of the name. Don’t ask me to spell Eva’s character’s name in Golden Compass without googling it! Actually I’m going to have a go: Serafina Pekalla?? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/8 "2008-11-13T17:22:37Z")
I’ve got to separate two things here: which girl was best-looking, vs. which girl was the best character. Purely on looks, I’d go with Claudine Auger, who played Domino in Thunderball. That is, amongst the “primary” Bond Girls. I think the Danish professor at the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies was actually the hottest babe to share screen with Bond, but she’s not really counted in the Bond Girl sorority, is she? For character, I like Jill St. John’s Tiffany Case from Diamonds Are Forever. She’s not a secret agent by trade (who some government trains and supplies with gadgets), but a scrappy and savvy independent operator. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/9 "2008-11-13T17:28:19Z")
I think the Sophie Marceau character in TWINE: Electra King is one of the best characters of the entire series. She may not qualify as a typical Bond girl though. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/10 "2008-11-13T17:29:30Z")
Miss Moneypenny. As played by Ms. Maxwell or the newer one. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/11 "2008-11-13T17:34:25Z")
Ursula Andress. Yowza. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/12 "2008-11-13T17:34:48Z")
Daniela Bianchi from _From Russia With Love._ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/13 "2008-11-13T18:21:10Z")
Ursula Andress or Honor Blackman. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/14 "2008-11-13T18:25:26Z")
Just to be sure she gets a mention here, I’ve always thought that the redhead in the Aston Martin at the beginning of _Goldeneye_ was wicked cute. Can you be a Bond Girl without a suggestive late name? IMDb lists her only as “Caroline”. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/15 "2008-11-13T19:35:11Z")
Can I go with ‘All of them’? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/16 "2008-11-13T19:45:28Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ooooooooo, that’s tough. So many to choose from! For me, it’d come down to Barbara Bach as the Soviet agent from _The Spy Who Loved Me_, and Lois Chiles as the NASA scientist from _Moonraker_. Yowza. I have to go with Lois Chiles as well. Dr. Holly Goodhead was her character’s name. A close second for me would be Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp in Goldeneye. Loved her accent in that one. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/17 "2008-11-13T19:50:37Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > For character, I like Jill St. John’s Tiffany Case from Diamonds Are Forever. She’s not a secret agent by trade (who some government trains and supplies with gadgets), but a scrappy and savvy independent operator. With butt cleavage. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/18 "2008-11-13T19:52:47Z")
Michelle Yeoh in _Tomorrow Never Dies_ gets my vote. Halle is a very close no. 2. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/19 "2008-11-13T19:58:02Z")
Eva Green. Hands down. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551/20 "2008-11-13T19:59:16Z")
Britt Eklund as Mary Goodnight (The Man With the Golden Gun). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-bond-girl/472551.md?page=2)