This alluringly beautiful brunette made an arresting film debut sharing the title role of Luis Bunuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977) with Angela Molina.

Carole Bouquet had originally enrolled at the Sorbonne at age 15 with the intention of studying philosophy. She later transferred to the Paris Conservatory where she received her acting training. After the Bunuel film, Bouquet co-starred with Gerard Depardieu in Bertrand Blier's "Buffet froid/Cold Cuts" (1979). To American audiences, she is perhaps best remembered as Bond girl Melina Havelock opposite Roger Moore's 007 in "For Your