That spring she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, starting at $287 a week. Īndress arrived in Hollywood in late 1955. She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood. She was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome (1954) (starring Alberto Sordi), The Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti), and La catena dell'odio (1955). Career Andress in the mid-1950sĪndress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she held down jobs including being a children’s nanny. She went to school in Bern until she was 16 and speaks several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian.

She has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Kàtey. Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, took the role of being her guardian. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986).Īndress, the third of six children, was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress, former model and sex symbol who has appeared in American, British and Italian films.

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