20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About James Bond

6. Monica Bellucci Is The Oldest Bond Girl

Following on from the publicity around Skyfall re-branding Bond girls as Bond women, Spectre sports the oldest actress to play a Bond woman - the Italian Monica Bellucci, who will play Lucia Sciarra. At 50, she is actually four years older than Daniel Craig. Now, of course this is not suggesting that it is mind-blowing that an older woman than usual has been cast, but rather that it is pretty mind-blowing that the Bond franchise, that has always resolutely featured younger women (apart from M, of course), has started giving roles to more mature actresses. Extra fact: To gauge how big a deal this casting is, the previous oldest Bond girl was Honor Blackman - Pussy Galore in Goldfinger - who was 39.