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Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Golden Globe award winning Swiss actress and a major sex symbol of the 1960s. She is best known for her role as the first Bond girl.
Ursula Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Berne, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and a German father. Her father, Rolf Andress, was a German diplomat. He disappeared during World War II. Andress has four sisters and one brother. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German.
Andress started her career as an art model in Rome, which led to her first roles in the active Italian movie industry. She became famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie. Her introduction in Dr. No became one of the most iconic moments of the franchise.
It is a mythic scene as she rises out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini, singing a calypso, and tossing back her blonde hair. In reality, Ursula Andress' voice in Dr. No was provided by Nikki van der Zyl while the famous calypso song was sung by Diana Coupland.
Andress has been considered the best Bond Girl by fans. In 1963, she won a Golden Globe for Best Promising Newcomer (Female).
Andress co-starred with the king of rock 'n' roll Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, Fun in Acapulco and 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 1965, she posed nude for a picture for Playboy. In 1981's Clash of the Titans, she starred opposite legendary English actor Laurence Olivier
She was married in 1957 to actor/director John Derek. The marriage ended in divorce in 1966 due to her well-publicized love affair with French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. Andress dated many of Hollywood's leading men including co-stars Sean Connery, Marlon Brando and James Dean. In 1981, she had a son, Dimitri, with American actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star in the film "Clash of the Titans". Wikipedia |
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