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Ursula Andress is a Swiss retired actress who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other notable credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), T…
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entertainment · Swiss actress (born 1936) · actor · screenwriter · model · film actor · also Ursula Andress, Andress
Born 19 March 1936 · Q211111
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“This bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in Dr. No as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent”
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Public attention spiked: 9,152 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 1,753, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Organized career
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AOL: Bond girl Ursula Andress claims she was ‘deliberately chosen’ as victim in brazen theft of $23M fortune
Yahoo: Former Bond Girl Ursula Andress Claims Manager Lost Her $21.3 Million
Successfully sued Freymond's estate to recover her stolen fortune
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As of 2022, Andress splits her time between a home outside Rome and a house in Gstaad, near her siblings.
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Yahoo: Memorable Ursula Andress 'Dr.No' bikini could fetch $500,000 at auction
Alt News rated the claim “Photographs of Ursula Andress shared as those of Sonia Gandhi” False.
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Andress sold her home in Beverly Hills at a considerable profit
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Adelaide Now: Ursula Andress turned heads, now the original Bond girl turns 80
In a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in Dr
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Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history"
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As an exotic foreigner who assists David Selby in retrieving Dana Sparks from a white slave ring
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Began dating Fausto Fagone, a future Sicilian Regional Assembly member
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Portrayed Mabel Dodge in the adventure-drama film Red Bells and guest starred on shows like Manimal and The Love Boat
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The official story was that she had been struck by Hurricane Norman while bodysurfing in Malibu, but it was rumored that she actually suffered the injury during a fight with her on-again/off-again boyfriend O'Neal
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O'Neal and Andress were in a relationship twice, first from 1972 to 1973, then again from 1977 to 1978.
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Nude photographs of her from Nightmare in the Sun were published in Playboy; it was the first of seven times she was pictured in the magazine over the next fifteen years
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Won Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for Dr. No (1964).
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Over her affair with Once Before I Die co-star Ron Ely, officially divorcing in 1966
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In an episode of Thriller, "La Strega" (1962), with Alejandro Rey
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It was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no film resulted
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She dated Dennis Hopper and James Dean after moving to the US in 1955, and that same year began an affair with actor/director John Derek, a married father of two who left his wife, Pati Behrs, and their family to be with 19-year-old Andress.
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And that same year began an affair with actor/director John Derek, a married father of two who left his wife, Pati Behrs, and their family to be with 19-year-old Andress
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Andress has stated that she lost her virginity to married actor Daniel Gélin in 1953, when she was 17 and he was 32.
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Born 1936-03-19.
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