Every James Bond Girl Ranked From Worst To Best

7. Domino - Thunderball

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Thunderball's main Bond Girl is the franchise's first great Bond Girl.

The mistress of main villain Emilo Largo (Adolfo Celi), Domino (Claudine Auger) is not only a thoroughly charismatic screen presence, but she's far better-written than the majority of Bond Girls from this era.

Unlike many such characters, Domino actually has a story going on. Rather than just being there as Bond's love interest, Domino has shade and depth, and her story-line is a pathos-filled arc in which she gets revenge on Largo for murdering her brother. Ultimately, she's the one to kill Largo, not Bond.

Additionally, although Domino does sleep with Bond they don't actually end up together in the usual way, so this was another interesting and welcome deviation from the formula.

Thanks to all the terrific writing that went into the character and Claudine Auger's rock-solid performance, Domino is an absolutely killer love interest and one of the best characters from the Sean Connery films, Bond Girl or otherwise.

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