"character, Berry described Jinx as ""fashion-forward modern and the next step in the evolution of women in the Bond movies. She's more modern and not the classic villain."" Jinx was voted the fourth toughest Bond girl on-screen of all time in an ITV poll. Jinx (James Bond) Giacinta ""Jinx"" Johnson is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" franchise, first appearing in ""Die Another Day"", portrayed by Halle Berry. The character, the first heroic African-American Bond girl, has received critical acclaim, and is regarded among one of the best Bond girls of the series. Jinx is an NSA agent assigned"
"Angela Montenegro Angela Pearly-Gates Montenegro-Hodgins (born Pookie Noodlin Pearly-Gates Gibbons) is a fictional character in the television series ""Bones"" (2005–2017), portrayed by Michaela Conlin. She is a classically trained artist involved in forensic reconstructions. Angela Montenegro is the daughter of a fictional representation of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top (played by the musician himself). Angela was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 16, she is half-Chinese, and she once mentioned having taken French in school, in ""The Body in the Bag"", in season 6. Her middle name is meant to be an allusion to her father's guitar """"Miss Pearly Gates""""."
"Conroy's (Adam Gillen) mother Gloria, attempting to lure him back to the UK. Black lives in Brighton with vocal coach husband Paul Sand, whom she met while with the Actor's Touring Company and again in ""La Pasionaria"", with their children Sam (born 1988) and Dandy (born 1991). Sand sings with a band, ""The Loose Screw"", which also consists of Michael Gregory (drums), Ben Grove (guitar), Hedi Pinkerfeld (bass) and Graeme Taylor (lead guitar). They gave a series of cabaret shows in November 2009. Denise Black Denise Black (born 16 March 1958) is an English actress. Black was born in Emsworth,"
"- Saalinge is from South Africa, and as the only one of the group with any actual espionage experience, she acts as the de facto leader of the group. Her mother was also a spy, and is the only mother of any of the siblings who is deceased. Killam characterizes her as a strong-willed ""lone wolf"" type who doesn't work well with others, and is in prison at the beginning of the story. Killam, who has a daughter with his wife, Cobie Smulders, comments, ""Obviously, Bond has roots in misogyny. It's amazing what having a daughter will do to change"
"one album. Black was born Priscilla Maria Veronica White in Vauxhall, Liverpool, on 27 May 1943. She grew up in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool. Her parents were John Patrick White (1904–1971) and Priscilla Blythen (1911–1996). She had a Welsh maternal grandfather, Joseph Henry Blythen (1883–1966), who was born in Wrexham, and Irish great-grandparents on both her father's and mother's sides of the family. She was raised in a Roman Catholic household, and attended St Anthony's School, situated behind St Anthony's Church in Scotland Road, and Anfield Commercial College, where she learned office skills. Determined to become an entertainer,"
"female characters in science fiction. Bond's parents, Richard Slade Bond and Mary Bond, were from Nova Scotia, but moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania shortly before his birth in that city. The family later relocated to Philadelphia after World War I. In high school, Bond reviewed plays for ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". He worked for an insurance company during the Great Depression before enrolling in a college. He attended Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia from 1932 to 1934. While at Marshall, he contributed to the ""Huntington Herald Advertiser"" and edited the college newspaper, ""The Parthenon"". He met his future wife, Betty Gough"
"Martine Beswick Martine Beswick (born 26 September 1941) is an English actress and model, best known for her roles in two James Bond films. Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica to Ronald Stuart Davis Beswick, a British father and Myrtle May (""née"" Penso, 1912-2017) a Portuguese-Jamaican mother. Beswick, her sister Laurellie (1943-2002) and her mother moved to London in 1954 following the separation of her parents. In 1955, she left high school to work to help support her family. Beswick is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series. Although she"
"which debuted on June 3, 2018 to sold-out performances at Museum London, Canada. Linda was born and grew up in Hammersmith, London. Her mother, Marjorie (""Madge"", née Penfold), was a shorthand typist, working with the Kensington and Chelsea Police Force and CID. Her father, Gordon (""Dick"") was an accountant with Sun Life Insurance. For the first decade of Linda's life, the family lived in a small ground-floor flat with few amenities. Nevertheless, on a Saturday, Dick would buy a new 78 rpm jazz record which was played for the family to dance to. This music consisted mostly of Fats Waller,"
"I Liverpool. The Moss sisters are loosely based on her grandmother and her three sisters. Some aspects of the series, such as the grave fund that the girls save for, are taken directly from their lives. Thomas wrote the first complete draft of the script in 1996, but it was almost ten years before it was optioned by the BBC. During that time she lost the script, and had to recreate it from an old copy she found in her attic. Thomas elected to insert certain elements into the script to give the series a sense of realism, such as"
"became a major in the Jamaica Regiment. Blackwell's mother, the former Blanche Lindo, was born in Costa Rica, of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. She belonged to a powerful family who made their fortune in sugar and Appleton Rum toward the end of slavery. The Lindos are named as one of the 21 families who controlled Jamaica in the 20th century. Blackwell's parents divorced when he was twelve. Blanche was considered the love of Ian Fleming's later life, becoming the James Bond author's muse and the inspiration for the character Pussy Galore in ""Goldfinger"". She owned several thousand acres of land near"
"in 1907, where they were guests of the Bond brothers, London's Dawson City landlords. The Bond brothers were working in Nevada as mining engineers. London had contrasted the concepts of the ""Mother Girl"" and the ""Mate Woman"" in ""The Kempton-Wace Letters."" His pet name for Bess had been ""Mother-Girl;"" his pet name for Charmian was ""Mate-Woman."" Charmian's aunt and foster mother, a disciple of Victoria Woodhull, had raised her without prudishness. Every biographer alludes to Charmian's uninhibited sexuality. Joseph Noel calls the events from 1903 to 1905 ""a domestic drama that would have intrigued the pen of an Ibsen... London's"
"bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the television series ""Sex and the City"". Her character Jessa wore a wedding dress from Geminola in the season finale of the first season of ""Girls""; also, earlier in her career, she was featured along with her sisters in a fashion piece in ""Teen Vogue"" in which they wore clothing from the store. Her father is of English and Scottish descent and her mother is Jewish. Her maternal grandfather, Jack"
"Daughter (band) Daughter are an indie folk band from England. Fronted by North London native Elena Tonra (born 15 January 1990), they were formed in 2010 after the addition of Swiss-born guitarist Igor Haefeli and drummer Remi Aguilella from France. They have released four EPs, three singles and three albums, and are currently signed to Glassnote (North America) and 4AD (Europe). After playing the local London circuit, they toured supporting Ben Howard around Europe and have since played headlining tours around North America, Europe and Australia. Of Irish–Italian parentage, Elena Tonra was raised in Northwood, London, with her older brother,"
"Bond girls have some individual traits (at least in their literary forms), they also have a great many characteristics in common. One of these is age: The typical Bond girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, who seems to be perennially in his mid-thirties. Examples include Solitaire (25), Tatiana Romanova (24), Vivienne ""Viv"" Michel (23), and Kissy Suzuki (23). The youngest Bond girl (though she and Bond do not sleep together) may be Gala Brand; she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth. Bond's"
"Birthday Girl Birthday Girl is a 2001 British comedy thriller film directed by Jez Butterworth. The plot focuses on English bank clerk John Buckingham, who orders a Russian mail-order bride, Nadia. It becomes clear upon her arrival that Nadia cannot speak English, and early into her stay, two mysterious men come to the house claiming to be her cousin and cousin's friend. The film features Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Vincent Cassel. English and Russian are spoken interchangeably in the film. John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), a lonely St Albans bank clerk, orders a mail-order bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman)"
"squire from Thurlow, Essex, and Elizabeth Cordell, the daughter of Baronet Sir John Cordell. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge but was expelled (for reasons unknown) and eventually drifted to Covent Garden where he worked as a handyman, and met Moll (real name Elizabeth Adkins) in 1717. Moll had been born in Vine Street in the slum district of St Giles in 1696; her father was a cobbler and her mother a fruit and vegetable seller in Covent Garden. She had gone into service at the age of fourteen, but found the work boring and so began"
"training to be a nurse in Southampton. The couple returned to Sue's native Guernsey when she had finished her studies and was pregnant with Ryan-Zico. When Black was born on 4 August 1981, his father wanted to name him Zico in homage to the star Brazilian footballer. Black's mother insisted on Ryan, in case the child disliked football, and a compromise was reached with Ryan-Zico. A sister, Dionne-Maire, was born in 1984 and the family lived in homes with the football-inspired names Rio de Janeiro and San Siro Milan. Black was brought up as a Roman Catholic and attended Notre"
"to a mixed-race father (William Smith Jr, of English and royal Fanti parentage) from the Gold Coast and a Creole mother, Anne Spilsbury, of English, Jamaican Maroon, and Sierra Leone Liberated African ancestry. Adelaide was the second youngest of her parents' seven children. She and her sisters grew up mostly in England, where her father had retired in 1872 with his family on a pension of 666 pounds sterling. She attended Jersey Ladies' College (now Jersey College for Girls). At the age of 17, Smith went to Stuttgart, Germany, to study music at the Stuttgart Conservatory. She returned to England"
"now a director of Cavern City Tours in Liverpool. Baird's mother, Julia Lennon, was the fourth of five children in the Stanley family: Mary, known as 'Mimi' (1906–1991), Elizabeth 'Mater' (1908–1976), Anne 'Nanny' (1911–1988), Julia 'Judy' (1914–1958), and Harriet 'Harrie' (1916–1973). John Lennon was Julia's first child by Alfred Lennon, although she later had a daughter called Victoria (renamed Ingrid) after an affair with a Welsh soldier while Alfred was at sea. Julia was forced to give up the child for adoption after intense pressure from her father and her sisters. Although they had known each other previously, Julia started"
"actress Abigail Bond and the journalist Matthew Bond. She was brought up in London, in homes in Barnes and St Margarets. She attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, and studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Bond's first acting role came at the age of 21, as a student in the original stage production of Denise Deegan's play about a girls' school, ""Daisy Pulls It Off"", which opened at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre in 1983. Her earliest television roles took place during the same year, when she played Maria Rushworth (née Bertram), in the BBC mini-series adaptation of Jane"
"the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, she was the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada and James Henderson, a Liverpool shipowner originally from New York City. As a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria—the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869), a civil engineer and later a prize-winning pig farmer. The couple moved to the Hull family estate in Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter, Cecil Winstanley Hull. Hull was somewhat reclusive and did not seek the spotlight. She died at age 66, on 11"
"Francesca Gregorini Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna, better known as Francesca Gregorini, (born August 7, 1968) is an Italian-American director and writer. Born in Rome, Italy, Gregorini is the daughter of former Bond girl Barbara Bach and businessman Count Augusto Gregorini. Her mother is of Jewish and Irish descent. Gregorini is also the stepdaughter of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, with whom she is close. After boarding at The Moses Brown School, she attended Brown University graduating in 1990. Gregorini is a lesbian. She previously had a long term relationship with actress Portia de Rossi from"
"Eunice Gayson Eunice Gayson (born Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison; 17 March 1928 – 8 June 2018) was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond films (""Dr. No"" and ""From Russia with Love"") and is therefore considered to have been the first-ever ""Bond girl"". Gayson was born on as Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison on 17 March 1928 in Streatham, London, to John and Maria Sargaison (née Gammon). Her father was a civil servant. The family moved to Purley, Surrey and later Glasgow, before settling in Edinburgh. There she attended the Edinburgh Academy"
"is short and makes fun of Stan's job. Sandra Norton: The brattiest girl in all of Woodmont. She has a mother who pays lots of money when people babysit her monster child. Sandra and her family are from France, and she likes Julie better than Jane. Nadine: The ""bookworm"" and Jane's easiest babysitting job. She does nothing but sit and read books, making her no trouble to sit with. George: He's had a major crush on Jane. He is two inches shorter than Jane. He's 15 years old and a sophomore. George carries his money in a purse, is obsessed"
"W. Keltz. They have one daughter, Emma Natasha, born in 1990. Jennie Bond Jennifer Bond (born 19 August 1950) is an English journalist and television presenter. Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. She has most recently hosted ""Cash in the Attic"" and narrated the programme ""Great British Menu"". Born in Hitchin, Bond was educated at St. Francis' College, a girls' independent school in Letchworth, Hertfordshire and at the University of Warwick, from where she graduated with a degree in French and European Literature. Her career began in print, working for various local newspapers in London in"
"their gay neighbour Richard, (played by Ray Burdis), Mo's interfering mother May (Maria Charles), who runs the local launderette, Brenda (Caroline Quentin), who works with Mo at the glass eye factory, Bill (Frank Lee) and Mr Sharples (Allister Bain). The series' theme tune, ""London Girls"", was written and performed by Kirsty MacColl. The series was repeated once by Channel 4 in Summer 1985. It has so far not been released on video or DVD. Martin Walker in the Guardian attacked it as ""heroically bad"", finding it a painful attempt to construct an ""up-to-date and relevant sitcom"" that turned out close"
"hotel lounge. However, it also centers upon the hotel owner's teenage daughter, London Tipton (A parody of Paris Hilton), who is very wealthy and ditzy, the hotel's down-to-earth candy-counter girl, Maddie Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Moseby, the strict, dutiful, and serious manager, who is often the foil to Zack and Cody's schemes and has a liking to the piano, pocket hankies and ballet. The show is often set at the Tipton Hotel, but has other settings such as Zack and Cody's school, Cheevers High, and Maddie and London's private school, Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow Catholic. Zack and Cody often get"
"and had been sexually involved with women since she was 21. At the time her Bill character was having a lesbian fling while working undercover in a prison. ""My mother told the whole town I was a lesbian and she was proud of me. My girlfriend was accepted as part of the family."" The relationship lasted two years. A four-year relationship with Roger May (b. 1966) ended around the same time that Joy revealed her bisexuality. She is the great-niece of Tottenham Hotspur legend Bill Nicholson. Joy Brook Joy Brook (born Joy Beadle, 9 May 1969 in Scarborough, North Riding"
"Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The first-born son of a large family, Roy Petley was born on 3 April 1950 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. When he was five, Petley was abandoned to the Woodlands School near Uckfield, Sussex. The school also doubled as a home for abandoned children. He escaped his rough and often violent surroundings through art, teaching himself how to paint and draw. At the age of sixteen, he received a scholarship to study art at Brighton University. But the pull of Italy and the country's old masters of art such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo proved too"
"of the girls—ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married Julia. Julia was buried in the Allerton Cemetery, in Liverpool. Her grave is unmarked, and over the years its location was forgotten until it was recently identified by Jackie as ""CE (Church of England) 38-805"". Baird and Jackie were taken to live with the Birches and their son at ""The Dairy Cottage"", which was owned by Mimi's husband, George Smith. At the age of 14 Baird was allowed to go into Liverpool city centre by herself, where she drank cappuccino coffee in the Kardomah Coffee House, although Baird and"
"were ""five, fantastic, strong, beautiful, and intelligent women"". Their father, George Ernest Stanley, retired from the Merchant Navy and found a job with the Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association as an insurance investigator. He moved his family to the suburb of Woolton, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road near to Penny Lane. Her mother died in 1945, and Julia had to take care of her father with help from her oldest sister. Alfred 'Freddie' Lennon—always called 'Alf' by his family—was always joking but never held a job for very long, preferring to visit Liverpool's"
"the actress and adventurer Rachel Grant de Longueuil, best known for her role as Bond girl Peaceful in the James Bond film ""Die Another Day"". Ernestine Bowes-Lyon Ernestine Maude Bowes-Lyon, known as ""Tenie"" to her friends, was born at Glamis Castle in Scotland in 1891 and died in 1981 in Navarrenx, south of France. Tenie was one of five children. Her father Ernest Bowes-Lyon (son of Claude Bowes-Lyon) died ten days after her birth, 2 days after Christmas, in a riding accident in 1891. He was a diplomat; a Consul in Belgrade. Tenie's mother was a Drummond, of the family"
"Bond, ""I can't even tell you how huge it was in our house ... That's really why I wanted to do Austin Powers. Austin Powers is out of pure love for James Bond"". Though Myers is Canadian by birth, his parents are natives of Liverpool, England, and Myers holds dual nationality. Although the films parody the plots and characters of 1960s spy movies and the Swinging London fashion scene of the era, the humour is influenced by Myers's British heritage, particularly the ""Carry On"" films and the comedic works of Benny Hill and Peter Sellers, the latter of whom Myers"