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Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody , which merely contained vague elements of the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation , a canonical official adaptation.
Moneypenny recruits Cooper, a karate expert, and meets an exotic agent known as the Detainer. Bond hires Vesper Lynd, a retired agent turned millionaire, to recruit baccarat expert Evelyn Tremble, whom he intends to use to beat SMERSH agent Le Chiffre, who has embezzled SMERSH's money and is desperate to cover up his theft before he is executed.
You Only Live Twice is the last book completed by Fleming before his death and the last that was published in his lifetime; [9] he died five months after the UK release of the novel. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The story is the third part of what is known as the "Blofeld trilogy", [ 12 ] coming after Thunderball , where SPECTRE is introduced, and On Her ...
Bond is instructed to beat Le Chiffre and is aided by a member of HM Treasury, Vesper Lynd. Bond beats Le Chiffre at the poker table, but Lynd is kidnapped by Le Chiffre after the game, as is Bond, who is captured while pursuing them; Lynd is ransomed for the money and Bond is tortured.
[21] [38] The sociologist Anthony Synnott, in his examination of aesthetics in the Bond books, observes that Smythe is one of only two British villains in the canon, along with Vesper Lynd (from the 1953 novel Casino Royale); both characters die at the end of their stories. [39]
The film stars Daniel Craig as Bond, supported by Eva Green as Vesper Lynd and Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre; Judi Dench returned for her fifth Bond film as Bond's superior, M. Casino Royale is a reboot, [102] showing Bond at the beginning of his career as a 00-agent, and overall stays true to the original novel. [103] [e]
Linda Lavin, a Broadway star and Tony winner, has died. She was 87. Lavin, who guest-starred on Barney Miller before getting her own TV series, Alice, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, PEOPLE can confirm ...
In Kazan, Russia, Bond finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira, a member of Quantum who seduces agents with valuable connections and is indirectly responsible for her death. After saving Kabira's latest target, Corrine, who works in Canadian intelligence, Bond allows MI6 to arrest Kabira. Outside, M tells Bond that Greene was found dead ...