1. Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards)
The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Let’s review: Denise Richards played Dr. Christmas Jones, a nuclear physicist who wore a tank top and hot pants. Bloody hell, even Q didn’t have a gadget to help Bond escape from that disaster.

2. Stacey Sutton (Tanya Roberts)
A View to a Kill (1985)

Roberts was beautiful, sure, but she was also totally miscast as a geologist with a vendetta. (No wonder she got upstaged by Grace Jones’ glowering henchwoman.) The squeaky-voiced former Charlie’s Angel gave off so little steam that we half forgot that Bond Girls were supposed to be smart and sexy.

3. Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery)
Moonraker (1979)

An attempt to sex up the series with the star of the French soft-core spectacular The Story of O backfired when Clery wound up the weakest of the second-tier Bond girls, those who pop up for three scenes and then haplessly die. Mlle. Dufour could fly a helicopter, but she got outwitted by Bond in two seconds and outrun by some deadly dogs in one. C’est un scandale!

4. Kara Milovy (Maryam d’Abo)
The Living Daylights (1987)

Timothy Dalton’s first Bond Girl got off to a promising start, appearing through a window as a rifle-wielding KGB assassin. And yet, inexplicably, she fast devolved into a charmless wimplet, dragged around the snows of Europe and the deserts of Afghanistan with a blank stare — and a cello that always seemed to be in the way. A freakin’ cello!

5. Helga Brandt (Karin Dor)
You Only Live Twice (1967)

The un-exotic German star’s SPECTRE spy and short-time lover (those piranhas gobbled her up even faster than 007 did) looked out of place in a movie where Sean Connery was getting sensuous sponge baths on Japanese mountainsides. Watching Bond cut off her dress was like watching him finally get it on with Rosa Klebb. Eeeew.

6. Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland)
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974)

Come on, what self-respecting Bond girl would tremble at the sight of…Herve Villechaize? Another Swede who was all sex and no spunk, Ekland may have had one of the series’ best bikinis, but her dopey, doltish portrayal was a turnoff as much to filmgoers as to fans of Ian Fleming’s novels, in which Goodnight is one of 007’s closest allies.

7. Pam Bouvier (Carey Lowell)
License to Kill (1989)

We see what the Bond brain trust was trying to do by naming their main dame after Jackie O (and even winking to that fact during one extended sequence). But Lowell fumbled this attempt at giving 007 a modern, independent counterpart by turning her into a nagging pest. Who cared if she and our hero ever got it on? She just needed to shut up.

8. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles)
Moonraker (1979)

Bond babe? Try bland babe. Chiles worked the CIA counter-espionage thing just fine, and none of 007’s ladies looked better in zero gravity (of course, nobody else actually made it to outer space, thank God). But the ex-model was the worst victim of one of the biggest Bond Girl traps: a thorough lack of chemistry with her leading man.

9. Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)

To appeal to younger filmgoers — or maybe just fans of Ice Castles — the producers cast the then-22-year-old figure skater to jump a few triple axels around the then-53-year-old Roger Moore. She was harmless at best, but it took more than one vodka martini for us to wash the icky daddy-daughter innuendo (especially her goofy ski-lodge flirtation) out of our minds.

10. Octopussy (Maud Adams)
Octopussy (1983)

Swedish model-actress Adams was gorgeous, the only woman to play a leading love interest in two different movies (she got offed halfway through The Man With the Golden Gun), and the only one to have a whole film named after her character. And yet, for all that, do you remember a single thing about her biggest role? Neither do we.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

Gemma Arterton, daughter of a Gravesend welder was working in a Covent Garden beauty shop before landing with the role in the film.

“We had a Bond themed night a year ago and I had dress as a Bond girl and sell make-up. And now here I am, a real Bond girl! ,” Mirror quoted Arterton, as saying.

On the other hand 28-year-old Olga revealed that she had never seen a Bond film before and could have never imagined playing a role in the film.

I could never imagine being where I am today when I was a little girl,” “Even some days I think, ‘Is this really my life?’” said Olga.

Olga, brought up by a single mum in a miserable, impoverished Ukrainian remote area is happy that she can now support her mother.

“When I was growing up it was difficult. My mum wasn’t making much money and we just managed to survive, she said.

“Out of what little we had, she paid for lessons at music school. We had to sacrifice a lot.”

“My mother has the most wonderful faith in me and all I am today is because of her,” she said.

“Now I can support her. I buy her presents and help her a lot,” she added.

Source: Rediff.com

“I’m doing weapons training and body flight training for aerial scenes and stunt work for fighting. My days are so long, and it’s very physical”.

“She’s going to be very different from the previous Bond girls. She’s a fighter. This girl is going to kick ass. She’s on her own mission and she’s driven by revenge,” Kurylenko said of her character, Camille.

From The Sun,

Olga and Gemma are going to be amazing. They’re both very sexy ladies, which is very good. I’m no less nervous than I was. I dont know if Ill ever feel comfortable with it. We’ve got to make it as good as if not better than the last one and thats all that matters.