Ursula Andress

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Nationality: German
Birthdate: 03/19/1936
Birthplace: Bern, Switzerland

biography

Ursula Andress assured her place in pop culture history with a single, brief shot from the first James Bond film, “Dr. No” (1962). Rising from the Caribbean surf in a white swimsuit, dagger clasped firmly to her hip, and singing a calypso tune, she embodied both the Bond aesthetic and the new sexual freedom of the 1960s in one tanned, impossibly blonde frame. The roles she played in her subsequent film career were essentially carbon copies of her Bond character – icy and dangerous on the surface, but secretly limitless in their carnal natures – and if the films rarely afforded her more Continued

Credits

Aphrodite
2010
Queen of Chain
1997
Vesper Lynd
1967
Caroline Meredith
1965
Maxine Richter
Countess Kaeti
Madame De La Valliere
Marie Antoinette
Alexandrine
Margarita Dauphine
Honey
Cristina
Britt--Lady Dorset
Ayesha

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Discovered by Italian film producer while on vacation in Rome
1954 
Film acting debut, "Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova"
1955 
Seven-year hiatus from film work
1962 
English-language debut in "Dr. No"

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