Ursula Andress later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale.
42 Facts About Ursula Andress
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Ursula Andress's father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, took the role of being her guardian.
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Ursula Andress has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Katey.
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Ursula Andress went to school in Bern until she was 16 and speaks several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian.
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Ursula Andress studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she held down jobs including being a nanny for children.
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Ursula Andress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film.
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Ursula Andress was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome, The Sins of Casanova, and La catena dell'odio.
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Ursula Andress was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood.
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Ursula Andress received some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death.
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Ursula Andress bought herself out of her contract and in 1956 signed with Columbia Pictures.
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Ursula Andress stayed in Hollywood when she married John Derek in 1957.
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Ursula Andress returned to acting in 1962 in an episode of Thriller, "La Strega", with Alejandro Rey.
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Ursula Andress became internationally famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr No, the first Bond film, even though her dialogue had to be dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
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Ursula Andress won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in 1964 for her appearance in the film.
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Ursula Andress followed it playing the female lead in an Elvis Presley musical, Fun in Acapulco.
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Ursula Andress was billed after Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Anita Ekberg in 4 for Texas ; her casting in the latter led to the title being changed from Two for Texas.
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Less so was a film Ursula Andress starred in alongside Derek, Nightmare in the Sun.
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Ursula Andress was cast in the title role of She, playing an immortal queen, for Hammer Films and Seven Arts Productions, shot in England and Israel.
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Ursula Andress agreed to make it as part of a two-picture deal with Seven Arts; it was a financial success at the box office.
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Ursula Andress did not appear in the sequel, The Vengeance of She, as her contract expired before the film was produced.
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Ursula Andress went to France to play Jean-Paul Belmondo's love interest in Up to His Ears, which was popular in France; she and Belmondo became romantically involved, leading to her and Derek divorcing.
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Ursula Andress moved to Paris to live with Belmondo and it was her home for the next seven years.
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Ursula Andress returned to Hollywood to play George Peppard's love interest in the World War One film The Blue Max, another success at the box office.
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Ursula Andress made her second film for Seven Arts: another with Derek, who again starred and directed, Once Before I Die, shot in the Philippines.
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Ursula Andress then went to Africa to make The Southern Star with George Segal, which was a hit in England.
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Ursula Andress appeared nude or semi-nude in nearly all of her film roles between 1969 and 1979, earning her the nickname "Ursula Undress".
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Ursula Andress went to England to appear in Perfect Friday, a heist film starring Stanley Baker and David Warner.
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Ursula Andress did some action films, Stateline Motel, Loaded Guns, and Africa Express.
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Ursula Andress played the title role in The Sensuous Nurse and did a comedy with another former Bond girl, Barbara Bouchet, Spogliamoci cosi, senza pudor.
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Ursula Andress played Josephine de Beauharnais in the swashbuckling spoof The Loves and Times of Scaramouche with Michael Sarrazin.
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Ursula Andress made a sequel to Africa Express, Safari Express, then did another with Mastroianni, Double Murder.
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Ursula Andress played Aphrodite in 1981's Clash of the Titans, alongside Laurence Olivier.
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Ursula Andress was in Klassazamekunft, The Cave of the Golden Rose 3, The Cave of the Golden Rose 4 and Cremaster 5.
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Ursula Andress has stated that she lost her virginity to married French actor Daniel Gelin in 1953, when she was 17 and he was 32.
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Derek and Ursula Andress wed in 1957 in Las Vegas, but separated in 1964 over her affair with Once Before I Die co-star Ron Ely, officially divorcing in 1966.
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From 1965 to 1972, Ursula Andress lived with her Up to His Ears co-star Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Ursula Andress was, she says, the love of her life.
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Ursula Andress dated Ryan O'Neal, John Delorean, Helmut Berger, Paolo Pazzaglia, Johnny Dorelli, Franco Nero, with whom she later starred in Red Bells, Nels Van Patten, and Ricci Martin.
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O'Neal and Ursula Andress were in a relationship twice, first from 1972 to 1973, then again from 1977 to 1978.
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Ursula Andress was in a relationship with actor Harry Hamlin, who is 15 years her junior, after meeting on the set of Clash of the Titans in 1979.
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Later that year, Ursula Andress briefly dated martial arts expert Jeff Speakman, but has not been publicly linked with anyone since.
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In 2017, Ursula Andress sold her home in Beverly Hills at a considerable profit.