Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and a sex symbol of the 1960s. She is known for her roles as Bond girl Honey Ryder in Dr. No, for which she won a Golden Globe, and as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 James Bond parody Casino Royale.

Early life

Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, the daughter of Anna, who was Swiss, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II. Andress has four sisters and one brother. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, and her native German (Swiss German).

Career

Andress became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. In a well-known scene, she rises out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini. The scene made Andress the "quintessential" Bond girl, and is now considered iconic. "My entrance in the film wearing the bikini on that beautiful beach made me world famous as 'the Bond girl'", she said, and the bikini from this "classic moment in cinema and Bond history" sold for £35,000 at auction in 2001. In 2003, in a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in Dr. No was voted #1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments".
Andress won a 1964 Golden Globe award for New Star of the Year for her performance in Dr. No. Her voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the famous calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. In 1965, she posed nude for Playboy.
Andress co-starred with Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, Fun in Acapulco, with Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (1963), opposite Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim (1965), and as the countess in The Blue Max (1966). She also appeared in the Bond satire Casino Royale (1967) as Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, as played by Peter Sellers, to carry out a mission. Her heavy accent was dubbed over in Dr. No, but she used her own voice in Casino Royale.
In 1981's Clash of the Titans she co-starred with Harry Hamlin. In 1995 Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history."

Personal life

Andress surrounded by TV crews on board the Royal Yacht Britannia celebrating her 70th birthday in 2006

In 1957 Andress married actor/director, John Derek; they divorced in 1966. Andress dated many of Hollywood's leading men, including co-stars Marlon Brando and James Dean. In 1980 she had a son, Dimitri, with American actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star in the film Clash of the Titans. On 18 May 2006, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss Consulate General in Scotland, Ursula Andress celebrated her 70th birthday on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh in the presence of an international crowd of celebrities.

Filmography

Film	Year	Role	Notes
Un americano a Roma	1954
La catena dell'odio	1955
Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova	1955
Dr. No	1962	Honey Ryder
Fun in Acapulco	1963	Marguerita Dauphin
4 for Texas	1963	Maxine Richter
Once Before I Die	1965	Alex
Nightmare in the Sun	1965	Wife
She	1965	Ayesha
What's New Pussycat?	1965	Rita
Les Tribulations d'un chinois en Chine	1965	Alexandrine Pinardel
La decima vittima	1965	Caroline Meredith	English title: The 10th Victim
The Blue Max	1966	Countess Kaeti von Klugermann
Casino Royale	1967	Vesper Lynd/007
Le dolci signore	1968	Norma
The Southern Star	1969	Erica Kramer
Perfect Friday	1970	Britt
Soleil rouge	1971	Cristina	English title: Red Sun
Five Against Capricorn	1972
L'ultima chance	1973	Michelle Nolton
Colpo in canna	1974	Nora Green	English title: Loaded Guns
L'infermiera	1975	Anna	English title: The Sensuous Nurse
Africa Express	1975	Madeleine Cooper
Le avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche	1975	Josephine De Beauharnais
Safari Express	1976	Miriam
Spogliamoci così senza pudor	1976		English title: Sex With A Smile 2
La montagna del dio cannibale	1978	Susan Stevenson	English title: The Mountain of the Cannibal God
Doppio delitto	1978	Principessa Dell'Orso	English title: Double Murder
The Fifth Musketeer	1979	Louise de la Vallière
Letti selvaggi	1979	The Stroller and the Widow	English title: Tigers in Lipstick
Clash of the Titans	1981	Aphrodite
Krasnye kolokola, film pervyy - Meksika v ogne	1982	Mabel Dodge
Manimal	1983	Karen	TV
Liberté, égalité, choucroute	1985	Marie-Antoinette
Peter the Great	1986	Athalie	TV series
Falcon Crest	1987 to 1988	Madame Malec	TV series
Klassäzämekunft	1988
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders	1989	Betty Starr	TV
Il Professore - Diva	1989	Susy Kaminski	TV
Fantaghirò 3	1993	Xellesia	TV series
Fantaghirò 4	1994	Xellesia	TV series
Alles gelogen	1996
Cremaster 5	1997	Queen of Chain
Vogelpredigt, Die	2005