Camille
Quantum of Solace

On paper, Olga Kurylenko should have been a perfect Bond Girl: She's Russian, virtually unknown, and looks really good naked. And yet, there's something off about her as a Bond Girl. Maybe it's the obviously fake tan she wears throughout Quantum, or maybe it's the hackneyed backstory screenwriter Paul Haggis has concocted for her character (something about having been abused as a child by the deposed Bolivian dictator she's now poised to kill). Regardless, Kurylenko just isn't up to the task, leaving us (like Bond) to pine for Vesper Lynd. Even worse, the movie offers no additional evidence that she looks good naked.

Pussy Galore
Goldfinger

The British Goldfinger star wins hands-down for best Bond Girl moniker: Pussy Galore. The subtext, made explicit in the original Fleming book, is that she's into chicks; hence her declaration "You can turn off the charm, I'm immune." Sadly, no girl-on-girl action here, and her obligatory sex scene with Bond is one of the series' most action-packed it starts with the two kicking each other's asses in a barn. As Blackman was a judo expert in real life, it's doubtful Sean Connery (who persists in calling her "Poussy") would have won off camera.

Honey Ryder
Dr. No

The first Bond Girl remains the gold standard. Producer Cubby Broccoli offered her the part on the strength of a photo she wasn't wearing much, of course and it worked, even if the Swiss sex bomb's thick accent required her lines to be dubbed. Her beachcomber's bikini and knife-belt combo have inspired a million knockoffs (including Daniel Craig's in Casino Royale), but none have come close to usurping the white-hot original (including, yes, Daniel Craig's in Casino Royale).

Major Anya Amasova
The Spy Who Loved Me

In The Spy Who Loved Me, the cop's daughter from Queens makes a convincingly exotic and cold-hearted KGB spy. Anya Amasova (who also goes by the suggestive title "Agent Triple X") declares early on that "When this mission is over, I will kill you," and she ain't kidding in the climactic scene, we're not sure if she's going to do Bond or do him in. (Admittedly, her cleavage-baring kit kept us distracted.) Off-screen, the busty former model later posed for Playboy, then married Ringo Starr, confirming his status as the luckiest bastard who ever lived. Well, after Roger Moore, anyway.

Dr. Christmas Jones
The World is Not Enough

As should be obvious from the buxom figure and tight tank tops, Dr. Christmas Jones is a top nuclear physicist. And Richards brought all her talents both of them, in fact to the role. Pierce Brosnan seems barely able to stifle a laugh while Richards fumbles lines about "weapons-grade plutonium," and elsewhere the character's silly name inspires the worst double entendre in the Bond canon: Brosnan's postcoital "I thought Christmas only comes once a year." (Though by worst, we obviously mean best.) Not exactly a Bond Girl benchmark, but par for the course in a movie where the villain's brain contains a bullet that makes him stronger (seriously).

Vesper Lynd
Casino Royale

2006's Casino Royale famously ushered in a more brooding Bond, and thus required a suitably goth gal pal for Daniel Craig. And while Green's prissy (though curvy) British government official keeps her clothes on for most of the movie, she and 007 generate enough heat to make up for it. (And you can always ogle Green's body by renting The Dreamers.) More importantly, Vesper's that rarest of things in a Bond Girl a well-rounded character that does more than advance the plot and enhance the scenery. (Not that she doesn't do those things well, too.)

Tatiana Romanova
From Russia With Love

"I think my mouth is too big," Bianchi tells Sean Connery at one point in From Russia With Love. "No, it's the right size. For me, that is," he replies. Cute, but in fairness, Bianchi didn't know what she was saying she spoke neither Russian (her character's native language) nor English (thereby setting a pattern for her eventual successor, Denise Richards). But the former Miss Rome sure did look great in a choker and stockings, which let's face it need no translation.

Xenia Onatopp
GoldenEye

For some reason, Timothy Dalton turned down GoldenEye, leaving the field open for fifth Bond Pierce Brosnan. Tim's loss (not that we didn't love him in Beautician and the Beast): He missed out on Dutch treat Janssen, one of the few Bond Girls to do double duty as a bona fide villainess. Fully convincing as a sex-crazed Russian assassin with literally killer thighs, she outraces Bond's Aston Martin in her Ferrari and comes damn close to killing him off. As if that weren't enough, she also has one of the most memorable names in Bond Girl history (and we don't mean Famke).

Mary Goodnight
The Man With the Golden Gun

Ekland, who plays a British agent in The Man With the Golden Gun, originally auditioned for a much smaller role. That, understandably, changed once the producers caught sight of the Swedish knockout in a bikini. Ekland wisely spends the entire film wearing little else, which leads to a farcical moment when her ample posterior accidentally triggers the Solex solar gun. (It's complicated, but suffice it to say the moment's more Austin Powers than James Bond.) She later married Peter Sellers, who famously had a heart attack in bed on their wedding night. Goodnight, indeed.

Jinx
Die Another Day

Sure, Ursula Andress left some tough cups to fill, but, in her orange bikini and knife-belt ensemble, Berry somehow managed just fine. (Rent Swordfish for a more thorough examination of that topic.) As badass NSA agent Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson, who was born on Friday the 13th, she turned the tables and seduced Bond instead of the other way around. (Not that it took much effort.) On set, Berry went method, going by the faux Bond Girl name of "Cinnamon Buns," bestowed on her by (of all people) Samuel L. Jackson. Onscreen, however, there was little evidence she was the only Bond Girl to win an Oscar but we're willing to blame the script, not Ms. Buns.

Solitaire
Live and Let Die

The series' first and only virgin (named, appropriately, Solitaire) appears in Live and Let Die. True to character, Bond stacks her deck of tarot cards (hey, it was the seventies), thereby convincing her to give it up. Tragically, Solitaire loses her clairvoyant powers as a result of the deflowering, which, when you think about it, makes about as much sense as having them to begin with. As for Seymour, she remains a sex symbol today witness her cougar-ific seduction scene in Wedding Crashers though unfortunately she doesn't get much chance to strut her stuff here.

Octopussy
Octopussy

The former model was the only Bond Girl to appear in three different 007 flicks she played Scaramanga's girlfriend in The Man With the Golden Gun and had a cameo in A View to a Kill. Understandably, she has the part down, even if she's not quite as vivacious as some Bond Girls. (Not that approachability's a bad thing.) In Octopussy, her crime queen succumbs to Bond in one of the series' roughest, most non-P.C. sex scenes, which seemed creepy even then. That she escapes with her dignity intact attests to her character, onscreen and off.

Agent Fields
Quantum of Solace

Between Mad Men's Joan Holloway and the Bond series' latest temptress, it's a good time for redheads (and those who love them). Arterton's time in Quantum of Solace is brief but memorable, from her first appearance (with little, if anything, underneath her tan trenchcoat) to her last (covered in oil as in petroleum, not the sexy stuff your girlfriend buys at Kiki de Montparnasse). But while she looks good wrapped in the sheets of Bond's bed, her one-note performance suggests we won't be seeing much of Gemma for a while.

Tiffany Case
Diamonds are Forever

As brassy jewel smuggler Tiffany Case (pun very much intended) in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, St. John feeds Bond one of his best lines. Asked if he prefers blondes after she puts on a wig, he replies, "Oh, providing the collar and cuffs match." (Get it?) In the film, Case vies for Bond's affections with Plenty O'Toole (Lana Wood), and in real life was rumored to have gotten it on with Henry Kissinger (see power: aphrodisiac). No word on the former Secretary of State's position re collars and cuffs but given St. John's girl-next-door good looks, we can't blame him for being curious.

Wai Lin
Tomorrow Never Dies

Into athletic types? Here's your Bond Girl. Yeoh's ass-kicking colonel (from the Chinese People's External Security Force, in case you were wondering) is far and away the sportiest. The former Miss Malaysia and real-life martial-arts expert (see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is borderline scary at times, but still looks fetching in black leather. And even though they're handcuffed together at one point, there's no sex scene, but she and Bond are obviously headed for one when we fade out a physically demanding one, no doubt.

Tracy Di Vicenzo
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Acting ability isn't exactly a Bond Girl requirement see Richards, Denise but Rigg comes as a welcome exception. (George Lazenby once said he was daunted by her.) In 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service she plays a crime king's daughter who's also a complete basket case, constantly threatening to off herself. It could come off as mere hysterics, but Rigg somehow makes it endearing. (That Rigg also had the series' best legs doesn't hurt.) She's also the only Bond Girl 007 ever marries though conveniently for the franchise, she gets killed. Rigg lived on, however, later becoming a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Kara Milovy
The Living Daylights

Of all the women who have earned the title Bond Girl, none have embraced it off-screen quite like Maryam d'Abo. She made a documentary called Bond Girls Are Forever, showing what nice old ladies some of her fellow Bondettes have become. (It's not bad, though it might spoil some fantasies.) Perhaps this is because d'Abo was practically born for the role: She was a real-life Russian general's daughter. On screen, however, her sexy Slavic cellist doesn't generate much heat with 007, but she made up for it later with the obligatory spread in Playboy.

May Day
A View to Kill

Probably the least conventional Bond Girl: not only does she look like, well, Grace Jones, she's one of only two bona fide villainesses on this list (the other being Xenia Onatopp). As such, she's perfectly willing to bang 007 and then ice him, doing double-duty as the lover-henchwoman of Max Zorin (played by who else Christopher Walken). Still, her asymmetrical haircut and musclewoman bod fit in perfectly with the ultra-eighties A View to a Kill which, fittingly, had a theme song by Duran Duran.