"Filming of James Bond in the 1990s Films made in the 1990s featuring the character of James Bond included ""GoldenEye"", ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", and ""The World Is Not Enough"". Principal photography for the film ""GoldenEye"" began on 16 January 1995 and continued until 6 June. The producers were unable to film at Pinewood Studios, the usual location for Bond films, because it had been reserved for ""First Knight"". Instead, an old Rolls-Royce factory at the Leavesden Aerodrome in Hertfordshire was converted into a new studio. The producers later said Pinewood would have been too small. The bungee jump was filmed"
"to match wits with 007"" and ""the first one you could take seriously."" In 2012, the ""International Business Times"" included Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin among the top ten ""most stunning"" Bond girls of all time. She was also included on the list of the 20 best Bond girls by Virgin Media, who called her ""an equal match for Bond"", as well as on a similar list by 3MMM. MensXP.com ranked the ""sexy and stern at the same time"" Wai Lin as the seventh top Bond girl of all time; Fandomania ranked her as the second best Bond girl, stating"
"the second Bond Girl in history to appear in two films). However, this idea fell through so Wai Lin was replaced by Chinese Intelligence agent Mr. Chang (played by Ho Yi) in the finished film). The character was very well-received. After the film's release, Wai Lin proved so popular with fans and critics that MGM abortively considered developing a spin-off film based on her. ""Life"" named Wai Lin the 11th best Bond girl of all time. In 2010, ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked her as the seventh best Bond girl, calling this ""savvy Chinese agent"" one of the few ""wom[e]n of color"
"production company, Mythical Films. In 2005, Yeoh starred as the graceful Mameha in the film adaptation of ""Memoirs of a Geisha"", and she continued her English-language work in 2007 with ""Sunshine"". In 2008, Michelle Yeoh also starred in fantasy action film """" with Brendan Fraser and Jet Li. In October 2011, she was chosen by Guerlain to be its skincare ambassador. Yeoh will play a role in strengthening the French cosmetics company's relationship with Asia. Apart from action films, she is famous for playing nationalists in two biopics. In 1997, she played Soong Ai-ling in the award-winning ""The Soong Sisters""."
"her training, her skills, and many other facets of her life that made her a real person. Her relationship with Bond is also much more realistic."" In the 1999 video game adaptation of the film, Wai Lin is both a playable (Mission 9: Market District, Saigon) and a non-playable character (Mission 10: Stealth Boat, Ha Long Bay). A one/sixth scale action figure of her was released by Sideshow Collectibles in 2001. In early scripts for ""Die Another Day"", Wai Lin was to make a return, aiding Bond in Hong Kong (if this had happened, Wai Lin would have been only"
"Tsai Chin (actress) Tsai Chin () (born 30 November 1933) is a Chinese-born British actress, singer, director, teacher and author best known in America for her role as Auntie Lindo in the film ""The Joy Luck Club"". Her career spans more than six decades and three continents. She starred onstage in London's West End in ""The World of Suzie Wong"", and on Broadway in ""Golden Child"". Tsai Chin appeared in two James Bond films: as a Bond girl in ""You Only Live Twice""; and ""Casino Royale"". Her single, ""The Ding Dong Song,"" recorded for Decca, hit the top of the"
"these earlier films. This alias was chosen by D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real name. The D&B Group in Hong Kong was run by the businessman Dickson Poon. Yeoh married Poon in 1987 and retired from acting. In 1992, Yeoh and Dickson Poon divorced and Yeoh returned to acting. Yeoh's performance in """" (1992) marked her comeback to film. She acted in ""The Heroic Trio"" in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films ""Tai Chi Master"" and ""Wing Chun"" in 1994. She played Wai Lin in the"
"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"
"In the Line of Duty (film series) In the Line of Duty () is a series of girls with guns feature films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D & B Films which star, in the first two, Michelle Yeoh and, in subsequent instalments, Cynthia Khan as a police officer who combines use of firearms with martial arts. The third was the first to use the ""In the Line of Duty"" title, retroactively applied to the two Michelle Yeoh vehicles. Due to the entries being thematically rather than narratively related and their varying titles and release order in different territories"
"Maryam d'Abo Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960) is an English film and television actress, perhaps best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film ""The Living Daylights"". Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze (born 1920), a daughter of Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo (1917–1995), d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva.</small> She decided to be an actress at the age of 11. She studied at Drama Centre London, while working as an advertising model. D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film ""Xtro"" (1982), playing"
"Michelle Yeoh, and released by Warner Bros. in 2018. as Amanda ""Mandy"" Ling, Manhattan socialite and Nick's former girlfriend. Lusi was born in Pudong, Shanghai, and moved with her parents to the United Kingdom at the age of five. She studied at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, obtaining all A Grades at A Level, before reading in law from University College London. Lusi began her career in independent and international films. In 2009, Lusi played Princess Li Hua in KRU Studios' """". The film required Lusi to speak Bahasa Melayu, which she had to learn phonetically. Lusi has starred in independent"
"captors, including Jaws (Richard Kiel). Unbeknownst to Bond, Nadanova then gives a vial of her nanobots to Nikolai Diavolo (Willem Dafoe), a former KGB agent with ties to Max Zorin. Some time later, Bond is sent to investigate a Peruvian platinum mine, where agent 003 was last seen. Enlisting the aid of an American geologist, Serena St. Germaine (Shannon Elizabeth), Bond finds 003, only for Diavolo to mortally wound the latter; after 003 mentions New Orleans before dying, Bond rescues Serena and heads for America. After NSA double agent Mya Starling (Mýa) is discovered, Bond rescues her and they track"
"and Vivien Leigh. Her exotic looks resulted in her being cast in ""ethnic"" roles, such as Asian women, including her role as the Chinese character Miss Taro, in the first James Bond film, ""Dr. No"" (1962). She also appeared in ""Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"" (1965) as the Countess Ponticelli, and made numerous television appearances. Her last film performance was in ""The Terrornauts"" in 1967. Marshall married bandleader Paul Adam in 1947 and later wed Alexander Ward, before her final marriage, to film producer Ivan Foxwell (died 2002); they had no children. She died after a short illness"
"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 to kill the rogue North Korean agent Zao, who is undergoing gene-replacement therapy at the Alvarez clinic in Cuba. The night before confronting Zao, she has a one-night stand with James Bond, who is also after Zao in the hope of extracting the identity"
"Eva Green Eva Gaëlle Green (; ; born 6 July 1980) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she started her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's ""The Dreamers"" (2003). She achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's historical epic ""Kingdom of Heaven"" (2005). The following year, she played Bond girl Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film ""Casino Royale"" (2006) and was awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Green has since starred in numerous independent films, including ""Cracks"" (2009), ""Womb"" (2010), and"
"killed. Bond gives Wai Lin the data disk, and Wai Lin engages the Saigon Military Police in a gun battle with the Police setting roadblocks and using fast firing chain guns. She makes it back to her lab to find the location of Carter's stealth boat, hidden in Hạ Long Bay. On the stealth boat, Bond uses the boat's comm-link to give MI6 its position. Wai Lin is kidnapped but is later freed by Bond after he kills Carver's right-hand man, Stamper. Wai Lin stops the engine while Bond shoots and kills Carver and stops the stolen nuclear missile from"
"Papillon Soo Soo Papillon Soo Soo (born Papillon Soo Lam in 1961) is an English-Chinese model and actress, born to French and Chinese parents. Papillon Soo Soo appeared as Pan Ho in the 1985 James Bond film ""A View to a Kill"", the first of the three films that she has appeared in. She is best known for playing the role of the Da Nang hooker who uttered the famous ""Hey baby, you got girlfriend in Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time,"" and ""Me sucky sucky"" lines in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film ""Full Metal Jacket"". The lines"
"can gain control of the government and allow him to gain broadcast rights for China. At the last minute, however, Wai breaks free and creates a distraction that allows Bond to kill Carver, and sabotage the missile with explosives as they escaped when the explosion from the missile destroys the ship. She and Bond then give in to the mutual attraction they had both been fighting during the mission, and become lovers. In the film's novelization by Raymond Benson, Wai Lin has an entire chapter devoted to introduce her character, detailing ""her involvement with the Chinese People's External Security Force,"
"In 2011, she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's ""The Lady"". Yeoh was blacklisted by the Burmese government allegedly because of her participation in ""The Lady""; she was refused entry to Myanmar on 22 June 2011 and was deported on the same day. Yeoh has also recently branched out into television, as it was announced in September 2014 that she had accepted her first television role on the fifth and final season of ""Strike Back"". Yeoh plays the role of Mei Foster, wife to the British Ambassador to Thailand, and who is secretly a North Korean spy named"
"with momentary interaction with the male lead. Two actors have played in more Bond Films than any individual Bond actor: Lois Maxwell (Lois Ruth Hooker) as Miss Moneypenny and Dame Judith Olivia Dench as ‘M’. They have not been the Lead in a Bond Film, playing a Protagonist but never the Antagonist; both always stand very high in the credited cast lists for each film in which they appear. Bond Girls Are Forever Bond Girls Are Forever is a 2002 James Bond documentary film hosted by actress Maryam d'Abo, who had played the role of Kara Milovy in the 15th"
"at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant which was held in Australia and won the crown. While in Melbourne, she also won the Miss Moomba title. She was also Malaysia's representative at the Miss World 1983 pageant in London. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling Hong Kong film production company, D&B Films. Yeoh started her film career acting in action and martial arts films such as ""Yes, Madam"" in 1985, after which she did most of her own stunts. She was credited as Michelle Khan in"
"and formats, what is considered part of the series and which number of it is open to debate. One wide interpretation is, in order of original release: In the Line of Duty (film series) In the Line of Duty () is a series of girls with guns feature films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D & B Films which star, in the first two, Michelle Yeoh and, in subsequent instalments, Cynthia Khan as a police officer who combines use of firearms with martial arts. The third was the first to use the ""In the Line of Duty"" title, retroactively"
"MGM had originally considered developing a spin-off film based on Michelle Yeoh's character, Wai Lin, in 1997's ""Tomorrow Never Dies"". However, despite much speculation of an imminent movie, on 26 October 2003, ""Variety"" reported that MGM had completely pulled the plug on this project, to the dismay of Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson of Eon Productions, who were reported to be ""clearly furious"" about the decision. MGM was keen to instead move on with the next film, ""Casino Royale"", which went on to feature several recycled ideas originally penned for the cancelled spin-off. Die Another Day Die Another Day"
"an episode of the BBC's ""Masterchef"". Beginning with ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980), she changed the spelling of her last name to ""Beswicke"", but reverted to her original name in the mid-1990s; her last credit with the longer spelling is ""Wide Sargasso Sea"" (1993). 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)"
"Giorgi Kvinitadze. In November 2003, d'Abo married Hugh Hudson, the Oscar-nominated British director of ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981). In 2007, d'Abo had surgery for a brain haemorrhage from which she recovered. Maryam d'Abo Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960) is an English film and television actress, perhaps best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film ""The Living Daylights"". Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze (born 1920), a daughter of Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo (1917–1995), d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva.</small> She decided to be an actress at"
"Michelle Wong Wong Yi Lin Michelle (, born 15 May 1991) is a Singaporean actress, host and model. She was a finalist for The 5 Search competition. Wong starred in several dramas starting from 2005, including Kids Central production ""Double Chin 2"" and ""Heartlanders (Series 3)"". From 2011 to 2014, she starred in various films, such as ""Across the Straits"", ""Acceptance"", ""3 Peas in a Pod"" and ""Woodlands, 2007"". Also in 2014, Wong starred in a minor role in the film adaptation of Joker Game, released in 2015. In 2015, Wong's big break came when she participated in ""The 5"
"February 2017. Naomie Harris Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English actress. She started her career as a child actress, appearing in the television series ""Simon and the Witch"" in 1987. She portrayed the voodoo witch Tia Dalma in the second and third ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" films, Selena in ""28 Days Later"", and Winnie Mandela in """". She garnered attention for her performance as Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond films ""Skyfall"" and ""Spectre"". In 2016, she starred in the critically acclaimed film ""Moonlight"", a performance which earned her several accolades, including Golden Globe, BAFTA, and"
"a baby. Her father is Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil. She is related to the British Royal Family through her grandfather, 11th Baron Raymond De Longueuil (second cousin to Queen Elizabeth II), whose mother was Ernestine Maude Bowes-Lyon granddaughter of the 12th Earl of Strathmore. Grant played Peaceful Fountains of Desire in the James Bond film ""Die Another Day"". One of her first TV roles was on SyFy as Nina, the hostess of horror show ""Sci-fright"". She was Professor Myang Li in the Sky One series """". She has had roles in theatre and in TV programmes including ""Emmerdale"","
"film for Michelle Yeoh. Yeoh had previously won the 1982 Miss World Malaysia contest in 1983. After winning the contest she met D&B executive producer Dickson Poon who cast her in a small role in a television commercial with entertainer Jackie Chan in 1984. Her role in the commercial caught the attention of a film production company D&B Films. Yeoh had previously played small roles in Sammo Hung's film ""Owl vs. Dumbo"" (1985) and ""Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars"" (1985). For ""Yes, Madam!"", Yeoh took to stunt work opposed to allowing a double for every stunt. To train for her role,"
"Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"" (1993–1998), she has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood"
"Denise Richards Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She has appeared in numerous films, including ""Starship Troopers"" (1997), ""Wild Things"" (1998), ""Drop Dead Gorgeous"" (1999), ""The World Is Not Enough"" (1999) as Bond girl Christmas Jones, ""Valentine"" (2001), and ""Undercover Brother"" (2002). From 2008 to 2009, she starred on the E! reality show """". In 2010 and 2011, she was a series regular on the comedy ""Blue Mountain State"". She is currently starring in the Bravo reality show, ""The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"", joining in the ninth season. Richards was"
"Best Actress for the film ""Grand Central"" and, in 2014, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" and ""Saint Laurent"". She gained international attention for her appearance as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in ""Spectre"" (2015). She will reprise the character for Bond 25. Born on 1 July 1985, Seydoux is the daughter of businessman Henri Jerome Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne and philanthropist Valérie Schlumberger. She was born in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and grew up in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement. She has"
"Naomie Harris Naomie Melanie Harris (born 6 September 1976) is an English actress. She started her career as a child actress, appearing in the television series ""Simon and the Witch"" in 1987. She portrayed the voodoo witch Tia Dalma in the second and third ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" films, Selena in ""28 Days Later"", and Winnie Mandela in """". She garnered attention for her performance as Eve Moneypenny in the James Bond films ""Skyfall"" and ""Spectre"". In 2016, she starred in the critically acclaimed film ""Moonlight"", a performance which earned her several accolades, including Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award"