From Bond Girl to Offbeat Icon: Who Is She?

She was a sexy Bond girl decades ago.

Her 007 film came out in the 1980s and is memorable for her sensual but steely performance opposite Roger Moore.

She went on to act in several films like The Bridge and she also appeared in an episode of Sex And The City with Sarah Jessica Parker.

Her love life also made headline news as she was wed three times, and from 1996 to 2005 she was in a relationship with French actor Gérard Depardieu. 

She is now in her sixties but still is a head-turner on the red carpet.

The dark-haired beauty was seen entering the Chanel fashion show in Paris on Monday as she had an interesting hairstyle: gray roots with blonde braids.

Who is she?

She was a sexy Bond girl and was on Sex & The City. She was seen with a new look at the Chanel show on Monday in Paris

She was a sexy Bond girl and was on Sex & The City. She was seen with a new look at the Chanel show on Monday in Paris

The star had a double-breasted black coat on with a crossbody purse, who is she?

The star had a double-breasted black coat on with a crossbody purse, who is she?

She is Carole Bouquet, 67.

Bouquet played Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only in 1981. 

The film saw Bond trying to recover a strategic communications device before it finds its way into the hands of the Russians. The locations were England, Greece, Italy, and the Bahamas,

And Carole played Resistance heroine Lucie Aubrac in Claude Berri’s 1997 film of the same name. 

She also had a part in Francis Ford Coppola’s section of New York Stories. 

In 2008 she talked to UK newspaper The Independent about her life.

‘I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy,’ said the award-winning actress.

‘Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more,’ she added.

‘I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability – and I’m making no claims here – proportional to your supposed good looks. 

She is French actress and model Carole Bouquet

She is French actress and model Carole Bouquet

‘I think that’s what I meant when I was talking about beauty. I felt I should be proving I deserved the attention; that I should be doing something special,’ she said. 

And she talked working with Gerard in Too Beautiful For You in 1989. 

‘When I was working with Gerard Depardieu he was married,’ she shared. 

‘I never wanted to steal him. The idea never occurred to me.’ 

Bouquet – who was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France – has appeared in more than 60 films since 1977.

She made her film acting debut in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) and won the César Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Beautiful For You.

In the 1980s, she was a model for French label Chanel. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997.

Bouquet played Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only in 1981  opposite Roger Moore

Bouquet played Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only in 1981  opposite Roger Moore

Moore and Bouquet; the film also starred Chaim Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson and Julian Glover

Moore and Bouquet; the film also starred Chaim Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson and Julian Glover

In the 1980s, she was a model for French label Chanel. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997

In the 1980s, she was a model for French label Chanel. She was the face of Chanel No. 5 fragrance from 1986 to 1997

From 1996 to 2005 she was in a relationship with French actor Gérard Depardieu. Seen in 1989

From 1996 to 2005 she was in a relationship with French actor Gérard Depardieu. Seen in 1989

She was the companion of film producer Jean-Pierre Rassam, with whom she had a son, Dimitri Rassam, also a producer.

In 1987, she gave birth to a son, Louis, with photographer Francis Giacobetti. She married immunologist Jacques Leibowitch in 1992; they divorced in 1996. After that came Depardieu.

In 2014 she dated Philippe Sereys de Rothschild.

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