Best Female Performances in the Bond Franchise

The Bond franchise has given us many memorable characters and it's mainly because of the great performances from the actresses who portrayed them.
The Top Ten
1 Famke Janssen - Goldeneye Famke Beumer Janssen is a Dutch actress, director, screenwriter and former fashion model. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series, Ava Moore on Nip/Tuck and Lenore Mills in the Taken film trilogy.
2 Judi Dench From Goldeneye - Skyfall Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench is an English actress. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays, in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth.

We would have never thought a Female M could work but Judi Dench made everyone see it as an normal thing. Actually when she left and Ralph took her place people forgot M used to be played by a men.

3 Sophie Marceau - The World is not Enough Sophie Marceau, born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (17 November 1966) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. ...read more.
4 Luciana Paluzzi - Thunderball (1965)
5 Eva Green - Casino Royale
6 Honor Blackman - Goldfinger
7 Eunice Gayson - Dr. No

A very short but very memorable character and performance.

8 Teri Hatcher - Tomorrow Never Dies
9 Michelle Yeoh - Tomorrow Never Dies Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Chinese-Malaysian actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s.
10 Rosamund Pike - Die Another Day Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is an English actress. She began her acting career by appearing in stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Skylight.
The Contenders
11 Halle Berry - Die Another Day Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. Berry won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball. As of 2018, she is the only black woman to have won the award.
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