Who is Claudine Auger?
Claudine Auger received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette "Domino" opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965). She has kept fairly busy since her Bond days, acting in a number of Italian, French and Spanish films including The Bermuda Triangle (1978), Credo (1983), and La bocca (1991).
Overview
- Nicknames
- Elena Cardy, Claudine Courtel
Trivia
- 1958's Miss France 1st Runner-up.
- Is the first French actress to play the main James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965). The other French actresses who followed her playing the main Bond girls are: Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), and Léa Seydoux in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
- An excellent swimmer she did all her own underwater scenes in Thunderball including a love scene with Sean Connery on the sea bed during which she lost her bikini top.
- Upon her death, Auger's obituary in The New York Times featured an image of her Thunderball (1965) co-star Luciana Paluzzi whom the newspaper misidentified as Auger.
- She was one of eight who tested for the role of Domino in Thunderball.