They were hot, glamorous, and oftentimes dangerous. People have and still do adore the women who appear in James Bond movies, and you might wonder where are some of them today? Check out 13 of these famous beauties and see what they did post-Bond.
Shirley Eaton – Goldfinger (1964)
This Golden Girl moved away from acting after her famous role as Jill Masterson in Goldfinger . Married to Colin Lenton Rowe in 1957, the couple had 2 sons together, and Eaton would make only a few more movies in order to prioritize her time as a mother. She remarked in a 1999 interview with Starlog magazine, “A career is a career, but you’re a mother until you die.” That same year Eaton published her autobiography Golden Girl. Her strong feelings on motherhood appeared again when she told journalist James Davies in 2008, “The most important thing for me was being a woman and having a family more than being a very famous glamorous actress.”
Carole Bouquet – For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Carole Bouquet played Melina Havelock in the 1981 Bond flick For Your Eyes Only , and continued to get roles in other European films afterwards, especially in France. The classic beauty was also a model for Chanel in the 1980s and 1990s. She has 1 son, Dimitri, with producer Jean-Pierre Rassam who died in 1995. Carole would go on to date fellow actor Gérard Depardieu from 1997 until 2005. The 2 had worked on several films together and were even engaged from 2003 to 2005.
Jill St. John – Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The first American to play a Bond girl, Jill became famous as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever . The redhead has been in many other films since, including Northpole in 2014, but she has spent most of her time living a private life in Aspen, Colorado. Cooking has been a chief interest for Jill, and she did monthly cooking segments on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America and had a column in USA Weekend magazine back in the 80s. She even published The Jill St. John Cookbook . Commenting on her life away from Hollywood, Jill stated in 1987, “I’m a mountain gal now.”
Carey Lowell – Licence To Kill (1989)
Lowell is best remembered for her role as Pam Bouvier in the Bond flick Licence to Kill. She continued her career as Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross on the TV hit series Law & Order and played this role again in the spinoff show Law & Order: Trial by Jury in 2005. But acting got boring, and Lowell applied to New York University to study filmmaking instead by the mid 2000s. Always known for her Bond association, Lowell’s image and voice was used in the video game 007 Legends . Lowell was married to actor Richard Gere and had a child together, before separating in 2013.
Diana Rigg – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Rigg was already well known for playing agent Mrs. Emma Peel in The Avengers TV series before becoming Bond girl Tracy Di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service . Rigg has since had an extensive career in acting and has recently appeared in Game of Thrones . In 1994 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress In A Play for her title role in Medea . Given her successes, Rigg was made a Commander of the Order Of The British Empire (CBE) in 1988 and a Dame Commander of the Order Of The British Empire (DBE) in 1994.
Jane Seymour – Live And Let Die (1973)
Live and Let Die was not Jane’s first film, but it was the one which shot her to worldwide fame. Her role as Solitaire got her an IGN ranking of 10th in their Top 10 Bond Babes list, and she has gone on to be ever-present on TV and in film ever since. Despite having a constant heavy filming schedule, Jane also began writing self-help and inspirational books in the 1980s. Jane Seymour’s Guide to Romantic Living and Two at a Time: Having Twins are 2 titles penned by this mother of four. Not surprisingly, Jane also co-authored several children’s books with her ex-husband, James Keach.
Ursula Andress – Dr. No (1962)
Ursula got to play Honey Ryder in the very first Bond movie, Dr. No, and won a Golden Globe for it! The Swiss-German beauty says she owes it all to that iconic white bikini worn when Honey rose out of the sea with her famous hunting knife. “This bikini made me into a success,” Ursula once said. That bikini later sold at auction in 2001 for $59,755. Urusla would pose for Playboy in 1965 and went on to have many other roles including opposite Harry Hamlin in Clash of the Titans. Ursula had a son with Hamlin, Dimitri, in 1980, and worked less frequently after his birth.
Denise Richards – The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Richards was given a pretty hard time for her role as the brainy nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in 1999’s The World Is Not Enough . Ranked by Entertainment Weekly in 2008 as one of the worst Bond girls ever, her performance also won her a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress in 1999. To be fair, Denise was also nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action Actress – for the same role. Active as an actress even before the Bond role, Denise has two sons from ex-husband Charlie Sheen and also an adopted daughter. Her memoir, The Real Girl Next Door , a New York Times Bestseller, was published in 2011.
Britt Ekland – The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
This Swedish beauty was first spotted in Italy and sent to London to start auditioning for films. After a number of years with minor roles, Ekland landed the role of Mary Goodnight in the 1974 Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun. Then, an established feminine symbol, Ekland married Peter Sellers and wrote her best-selling autobiography, True Britt. Charlize Theron played Ekland in the 2004 movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers . Always known for her fantastic figure, Ekland even made a workout video in 1993 at the age of 51 entitled, Britt Fit .
Teri Hatcher – Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Teri was actually an NFL cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers before getting her break as Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman . It was then that Teri landed the Bond girl role of Paris Carver. And yet, this Bond babe would go on to become far more famous for another role, that of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives. For this role, Teri received a Golden Globe Award for best actress, 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Primetime Emmy nomination. In the series, which ran from 2004 until 2012, Teri was earning $285,000 per episode as of April 2006, making her one of the highest paid TV actresses in the US.
Izabella Scorupco – GoldenEye (1995)
Izabella was a model who appeared on the cover of Vogue before being discovered and starring in her first flick in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s she even released the pop album IZA , certified gold in Sweden. Then in 1995, Izabella became globally famous for her role as Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye. Still active as an actress, Izabella actually went back to music as well, with a duet featuring Swedish musician Peter Jöback, and appeared in the accompanying video. A host of Sweden’s Next Top Model in 2012, the former Bond girl also starred in the Swedish romantic comedy in 2013, Micke & Veronica .
Barbara Bach – The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
A model from the age of 16, Bach became an international feminine symbol when she played Russian spy Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. She has famously stated, that Bond is “a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.” Bach posed in Playboy in 1977 and was on its cover in 1981. Earning her masters in psychology from UCLA in 1993, Bach began the Self Help Addiction Recovery Program (S.H.A.R.P.) along with George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd. Bach is married to former Beatle Ringo Starr and has 2 children from ex-husband Augusto Gregorini.
Claudine Auger – Thunderball (1965)
Auger studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and appeared in her first film while still there. Marrying 41-year-old writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit when she was only 18, she then appeared in many of his films. Writer-producer Kevin McClory spotted her in the Bahamas for the role of Domino in his Bond film Thunderball. The role was meant for an Italian, but the producers loved Auger and rewrote the script. Though never that famous in the US, despite a semi-nude Playboy spread, Auger ended up having a successful film career in Europe.
