Jinx (Halle Berry) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Last Die Another Day (film) Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson is an NSA operative who teams up with James Bond to spy on rogue North Korean agent Zao and investigate his ties with diamond magnate Gustav Graves . She appears in the 2002 film Die Another Day and is portrayed by American actress Halle Berry . Contents Film biography Los Organos island, Cuba An NSA Agent, Jinx is assigned to kill a rogue North Korean agent named Zao, who is undergoing gene-replacement therapy at the Alvarez clinic on Los Organos island, Cuba. There she meets James Bond , who is also after Zao in the hope of extracting the identity of a double agent responsible for his 14 month imprisonment in North Korea. Introducing herself as Jinx, a nickname derived from her being born on Friday the 13th, the two exchange double entendres and proceed back to Bond's room at the Hotel De Los Organos. The following morning she leaves the sleeping spy and crosses over to the clinic. Posing as a prospective patient, she kills Dr. Alvarez and accesses the clinic's records on Zao.

Suddenly her mission is interrupted by 007, who has found the North Korean first. After being pursued by Jinx and Bond, Zao escapes by helicopter, leaving the armed American agent surrounded by clinic security. Stripping to her bikini, she dives backwards off the edge of the wall into the ocean and is picked up by a boat. Iceland Still pursuing Zao, Jinx tracks the agent to Gustav Graves' diamond mine in Iceland. Attending a public demonstration of the diamond magnate's Icarus Satellite at his Ice Palace , she once again crosses paths with Bond. Later that evening Jinx breaks into Graves' office and finds Zao 'sleeping' in a 'dream machine'. She tries to kill him but Graves stuns her before she can get the chance. After being interrogated by Zao, the agent leaves her to be disposed of by Mr. Kil . Rather than shoot her, Kil insists on using the nearby industrial lasers. As the laser edges towards her head, she is rescued by 007 who intervenes and stops the machine - only to be jumped by Kil.

As the henchman prepares to deliver the finishing blow Jinx grabs the swinging controls and activates the laser; cutting through the back of Mr. Kil's cranium. After formally admitting that she is a member of the NSA, they team up and exchange information. It suddenly becomes clear to Bond that Zao is working with Graves, who is in reality an old North Korean adversary, Colonel Tan-Sun Moon. The pair split up, with Bond confronting Graves and Jinx heading to warn MI6 operative Miranda Frost . However, unbeknownst to Jinx, Frost is a double-agent working for Graves. Exchanging insults, Miranda locks her in Bond's suite and leaves her to die as Graves melts the Ice Palace using his satellite's heat-ray. Almost drowned in the flooding room, she is rescued for the second time by Bond, who shatters the door with his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish and takes her to a nearby hot pool to be revived. Finale Jinx held at sword-point. During the chaos, Graves and Frost escape on his private airliner.

On the orders of their respective Service Heads, Jinx and Bond infiltrate a North Korean airbase using switchblades and prepare to snipe Graves before he can take to the skies again. However, a passing truck ruins the shot and they are forced into boarding the plane via its landing gear. Again, the two split up with Jinx taking care of the pilot while James goes after Graves. While Jinx manages to take over the controls, Bond accidentally shoots out a window in Grave's observation deck. She manages to keep the plane airborne but is suddenly ambushed by a sword-wielding Frost, who forces the spy to hand the controls over to the auto-pilot and escorts her out of the cockpit. However, the auto-pilot sends the plane hurtling into the solar beam of the now active Icarus, causing the plane to violently lurch and disintegrate. Frost is hurled to the ground by the impact, allowing Jinx to gain the upper hand. They engage in a violent sword fight culminating in Jinx plunging a knife into Frost's chest. Jinx and Bond then manage to escape the burning and demolishing plane in a helicopter.

Other appearances The character of Jinx also made an appearance in the 2012 video-game 007 Legends alongside Daniel Craig (voiced by Timothy Watson) as James Bond. For the re-imagined Die Another Day mission, developer Eurocom took creative license with the character and used the likeness of Gabriela Montaraz (voiced by Madalena Alberto ) rather than Halle Berry. Halle Berry did not reprise her role for the game. [1] Behind the scenes The scene where she emerges from the ocean in a bikini paid homage to the character of Honey Ryder ( Ursula Andress ) from the first Bond film, Dr. No . Lindy Hemming, costume designer on Die Another Day, had insisted that Berry wear a bikini and knife as an homage. [2] Berry has said of the scene: "It's splashy", "exciting", "sexy", "provocative" and "it will keep me still out there after winning an Oscar.". [3] Despite the bikini and location of Cuba in the film, the footage was shot in Cadiz, Spain .

Far from the warmth implied in the film, the location was reportedly very cold and windy, and footage has been released of Berry wrapped in thick towels in between takes to avoid catching a chill. [4] During the subsequent filming of Zao's escape by helicopter, Berry was injured by flying debris from a smoke grenade. The debris was removed from her left eye in a 30-minute operation and the actress returned to the set with an inflamed cornea. [5] In discussing her character, Berry said Jinx is "fashion-forward modern and the next step in the evolution of women in the Bond movies." [6] Speculation arose in 2003 of a spin-off film concentrating on the character which was scheduled for a November/December 2004 release. It was originally reported that MGM was keen to set up a franchise and to be a " winter olympics " alternative to 'James Bond,'. As early as the late 1990s, MGM had originally considered developing a spin-off film based on Michelle Yeoh 's character, Wai Lin , in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies .

However, despite much speculation of an imminent movie, on October 26, 2003, Variety reported that MGM had completely pulled the plug on this project, to the dismay of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson of EON Productions , who were reported to be "clearly furious" about the decision. [7] MGM were keen to move on with the next film instead. Trivia Jinx was also the first black Bond Girl , hero or villain, in more than 17 years, since May Day ( Grace Jones ) in A View to a Kill , and the first black Bond Girl ever to play the heroine (principal Bond "good girl"). According to an ITV news poll, Jinx has been voted the fourth toughest girl on screen of all time. Uma Thurman, the star of Quentin Tarantino`s samurai film Kill Bill was named as the winner. [8] Although Jinx says her birthday is Friday the 13th, her birthday doesn't fall on Friday the 13th, or even a Friday (it falls on a Wednesday).

Gallery James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond Above: The front flap box art Packaging Featuring the US Jinx character poster on the front, the packaging follows Sideshow’s Bond template layout and design. The inner flap gives a brief mission overview and cast list, which is the same as the Zao figure. The style used on the descriptive titles on the box is different though. The rear starts by looking at Halle Berry’s acting career and it is split by six character portraits from the film. Rounding up the rear cover are the three staples Sideshow add to their Bond range, ‘The Bond Girl’ (a look at the Jinx character), Brosnan (four times ‘James Bond’) and ‘Villain’ (the eclectic Gustav Graves played by Toby Stephens). The sides of the box show Jinx posed through the eye of the gun barrel logo and film title. The wires that hold the figure in the box are easy to remove, not being wrapped around the figures sternum like earlier 1/6 figures. Sideshow has moved to using a stand which can be easy removed and replaced back into the box without damaging the tray.

The standee is stamped with the film title “Die Another Day” and actress – character name. Sculpting There is an evident likeness between the figure and Halle Berry. Most of the detailed sculpting can be found on the head, where the hair has been accurately portrayed with lots of tufts and impressive detail. However, a production join line can be seen on the left-hand side of the head, but it does disappear over the centre of the head. Looking directly at the face the sculpted likeness is strong, but if viewed in profile it does not look like Halle Berry’s Jinx. In the film, Berry’s character wears a pair of small earrings that are missing from the figure’s well-formed ears. Both eyes appear too small, but are correctly proportioned. Black hands have been sculpted to give the illusion of leather-gloved hands. Both gloves have been sculpted to a high degree, and all the join lines lie on seam lines. No flashing is visible on either glove, and they have been fully detailed with contours and short extensions that cover the wrist joint. Detailing The most the detailing can be found on the face and gun.

Starting form the top of the head, two tone hair has been made up of a dark brown base and lighter brown highlights. Bleed is visible on the fringe and right wispy sideburn. Using two colours has given the hair character and depth. Both ears could have received more attention as bleed is visible on the right, the left however appears to have not suffered from bleed, but a confusion of colour. The pert lips are finished in a glossy colour, and the figures’ eyebrows are flat wisps, well placed and clean but lack shape. The head does not have a glossy plastic finish. More definition could have been used to highlight the sculpting and give more warmth. Articulation Using Sideshow's 12 inch female body, Jinx has all the movement you would expect to place her in an action poses. She features tight fitting joints from the head, neck, ball jointed shoulders, chest, cut biceps, double jointed elbows, and wrists. The waist down with a twistable waist, hips, thighs, and knees. Ankles that are slightly impeded by the calf high boots, but due to their soft compression the restriction is limited. The well fitting suit allows for a full range of movement.

Outfit In 2004, the costume that this figure was modelled on was auctioned in London, designed by returning costume designer Lindy Hemming. It was a red two piece suit that Jinx wears when breaking into Graves’ diamond mine in Iceland where Bond saves her from a henchman and from an icy grave. Made up of a three main pieces - jacket, trouser (pants) and boots - Sideshow have used ‘pleather’ on the two costume pieces. Both the trousers (pants) and jacket fit extremely well. Good tailoring is evident in both garments. The jacket allows for free movement, and is extremely well tailored, however the finishing stitching at the bottom on the jacket is a little messy. Three poppers keep the jacket closed and are easily secured and well positioned. As with the jacket, the trousers (pants) are extremely well tailored and fitted. A single popper secures them at the waist. Finally, the boots are made of a soft rubber that has enabled Sideshow to add lots of sculpted detail, including the soles. With a little effort the boots can be removed, but when replacing them the trouser legs tend to bunch up making it tedious to replace them.

Accessories Equipped with a silenced handgun, six throwing knifes and belt to keep them in, the figure has more accessories than most. First seen in the medical facility, Jinx’s silenced Beretta is film accurate. The gun also has been detailed with tan coloured grips, but a join line can be seen running down the length of the gun. Above: Reverse box art The knife belt is a little tricky to re-attach after removing, but it becomes easier each time you have figured out how to reattach successfully. The six identical knifes which can’t be held by the figure fit into the belt snugly. Each knife is well formed with three holes in each handle. Bond Girls: Die Another Day (2002) Die Another Day (2002) Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films Title Screen Film Title/Year/Director, Bond Girl (Actress) Screenshots d. Lee Tamahori "Peaceful" Fountains of Desire (Rachel Grant) In the opening of the film before and during the credits, Bond (Pierce Brosnan) had been tortured for 14 months in a North Korean prison, but then released on a prisoner exchange with an international N.

Korean terrorist named Zao (Rick Yune). His superior M (Judi Dench) explained how she had not approved of her agent's release, since she believed he had "cracked under torture" in prison and was "hemorraging information." Bond's license as 007 was abruptly rescinded, although he felt he had been betrayed by a double-agent mole within MI6. Bond escaped the medical facility (on a British ship in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor) to avoid being sent to the Faulklands, and talked his way into his "usual suite" within the Rubyeon Royale Hotel. Compliments of manager Mr. Chang (Ho Yi), "Peaceful" Fountains of Desire (Rachel Grant), a pretty masseuse, appeared at Bond's door to provide services.

She instructed: "On the bed please, face down." When he kissed her and attempted to seduce her, "Peaceful" explained: "I'm not that kind of masseuse." He grabbed a hidden gun from her thigh holster, disarmed her and exclaimed: "I'm not that kind of customer." He then shattered a large closet mirror in the room with a heavy glass ashtray, revealing Chang and three other secret service personnel surreptitiously attempting to film them. He knew that Chang was part of Chinese Intelligence trying to besmirch his name with incriminating footage. He assured Chang that as a representative of the British, he wasn't there to take back Hong Kong. He told Chang of his real mission -- to track down terrorist Zao (who had killed three Chinese secret service agents) for "a chance to get even. Zao has information I need." Bond wanted Chang's assistance to locate Zao, and was told: "I'll have to ask Beijing." The massage with "Peaceful" was cancelled, and Chang ordered her from the room.

Die Another Day (2002) Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) There were two scenes in this film that featured Bond regular Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond in her fourth and last appearance), and both were related to Virtual Reality simulations. In the first sequence, a Virtual Reality training session for James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), the 007 agent was in his MI6 office in London. From the hallway he heard muffled shots and found dead bodies, including that of secretary Miss Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) with a lethal bullet wound in her forehead. In the second sequence at the very end of the film, Miss Moneypenny was typing a news release at her desk computer. It stated that a "freak electrical storm" had caused the ravaging of a North Korean minefield. Bond entered the office and Moneypenny straightened his tie. He kissed her, and she aggressively pulled on his tie, drawing him on top of her on her desk (she signed: "Oh, James"). As they passionately made out, gadgets-master Q (John Cleese) interrupted Moneypenny's unscheduled VR session.

Embarrassed, she excused herself: "I was, uhm, just testing it out" and buttoned the top button on her blouse. He replied: "It's rather hard, isn't it?" She responded: "Yes, very." Die Another Day (2002) Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry) Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson (Halle Berry) made a dramatic, slow-motion entrance - first seen through Bond's (Brosnan) binoculars from a Cuban restaurant onshore. She recreated the famous Ursula Andress rising-from-the-sea scene from Dr. No (1962) in a skimpy bright orange bikini. After she strolled into the bar area, he commented: "Magnificent view." Introducing herself (although Bond was unaware of her occupation), she said her nickname was Jinx because she was born on Friday the 13th.

They flirtatiously chit-chatted a bit until Bond, posing as a bird-watcher, asked if she had time - she replied coyly: "Until dawn, what about you?...So what do predators do when the sun goes down?" Bond responded: "They feast like there's no tomorrow." In the next scene that evening, the two vigorously made steamy love, during which she asked: "Are you always this frisky?" He replied: "I've been missing the touch of a good woman." She opened a switchblade knife: "Who says I'm good?" and then sliced a piece of exotic fruit for them to share. The next day, she was revealed to be working at cross-purposes to Bond. She took a boat from the jetty to Isla de Los Organos, posing as a patient negotiating to have DNA replacement therapy for $2 million, where terrorist Zao (Rick Zune) was having his appearance altered. She killed the clinic's head Dr. Alvarez (Simon Andreu) and blew up his office, as Bond confronted notorious terrorist Zao undergoing treatment at the same time, but became trapped in the clinic due to the explosion.

Zao jumped from a window and escaped to an awaiting ambulance helicopter - both Bond and "Jinx" pursued the copter as it flew away, but Zao successfully evaded them. She was held at gunpoint at the clinic wall's edge - and to the amazement of two guards (and Bond), stripped to a pink bikini before taking a backwards (CGI-assisted) escape dive off the steep cliff into the ocean. Jinx next appeared at diamond merchant Gustav Graves' (Toby Stephens) Ice Palace demonstration in Iceland, driving a dark red Ford Thunderbird. At the evening's formal event, she met Bond at the bar, noting that she had left him "in an explosive situation. You're a big boy. Figured you could handle yourself." She said she was a girl "who doesn't like to get tied down." She introduced herself to another Bond Girl, Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike), as Miss Swift from Space and Technology Magazine. Miranda asked: "I take it Mr.

Bond's been explaining his Big-Bang theory." She cleverly replied: "Oh yeah, I think I got the thrust of it." After the evening's presentation, she stealthily blew a hole in one of the bio-dome windows of Graves' fake diamond mine, and descended on a rope after attaching her rope ascender-descender gadget. Under Graves' Dream Machine mask, she found Zao and attempted to kill him, but was zapped with Graves' 100,000 volt Icarus control device and knocked unconscious. She was tied down by Zao and tortured with electric shocks on a robotic torture table with multiple laser arms. Restrained on the table, Jinx was saved from being lasered to death by villain Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare) when Bond came to her rescue, and together they coordinated Kil's death by projecting a laser beam through the back of his skull. As he freed her, she admitted her true identity -- she worked for the NSA (National Security Agency), putting them on the same side.

However, she was soon imprisoned by Miranda and Graves in one of the ice palace's room as the destructive Icarus laser beam was aimed at the massive structure, to melt it and drown her. Jinx was lifeless and half-drowned in the flooded room as Bond smashed his Aston-Martin through its doors, and she rolled onto the top of his car's hood with the rush of water. Then he used his sonic-agitator ring to break his windshield and drag Jinx into the car. He drove through the outer wall of the Ice Palace, and rushed with her body to an outdoor hot-spa, where he administered CPR mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save her. When she revived, she exclaimed: "What took you so long?" She accompanied Bond on a secret mission into North Korea to prevent Graves' planned invasion of South Korea. Onboard Graves' massive cargo plane, she knocked out the pilot and took the controls, and steadied the plane when it was depressurized.

She defensively fought to the death against villainous Miranda Frost in a sword/knife battle - after two backflips to evade Miranda, Jinx stuck a dagger through "The Art of War" booklet and impaled it into Miranda's chest - and thrust it deeper with a karate kick, retorting: "Read this - Bitch!" Later, Jinx described the killing to Bond: "I think I broke her heart." She quipped to Bond: "Looks like we're going down together" as the two agents faced death from the crashing fiery plane. However, just a few feet from the ground, Bond steadied the copter and saved them, adding: "Now, you said something about going down together?" In the film's final scene, Bond had landed the helicopter outside a bamboo shack, on a bluff above a deserted beach. Jinx suggestively spoke, in voice-over (off-screen): "Wait, don't pull it out.

I'm not finished with it yet." He responded: "See, it's a perfect fit." She answered: "Leave it in" and Bond replied: "It's gotta come out sooner or later." As the camera panned to the right, they were seen resting on the floor, with diamonds scattered all around them, as she begged: "No, leave it in, please. A few more minutes." They both were referring to a diamond fitted in her belly-button. As he kissed her, he mused: "I'm still not quite sure how good you are." She assured him: "I am so good." Bond: "Especially when you're bad." She giggled as the screen turned to black. This was the first Bond film with an African-American female (and Oscar-winner) as the lead Bond girl. Die Another Day (2002) Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) Mysterious blonde publicist Miranda Frost was first seen outside Buckingham Palace in London, where her boss, risk-taking adventurer and diamond merchant Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), was about to be knighted by the Queen.

He had jumped from a small plane with a Union Jack parachute and landed amidst a crowd of paparazzi photographers (and Bond). Soon after, she was spotted at the exclusive St. James's Street club called 'Blades', where Bond was told by his thinly-veiled lesbian fencing instructor Verity (Madonna as a leather dominatrix) that Miranda, her "gorgeous" protege, was the "finest blade" in the club - and a gold medal winner at the Sydney Olympics (by default when her opponent OD'd on steroids). After a prolonged sabre-sword duel between an enraged Graves and Bond, Miranda ended it when she came between the two, after blood was drawn from Graves' torso, and called out: "That is enough." After his defeat, Graves paid off Bond with a cheque, and invited him to a weekend "scientific demonstration" of his Icarus project in Iceland. Bond questioned Miranda: "Can I expect the pleasure of you in Iceland?" She shot back: "I'm sure you'll never have that pleasure, Mr.

Bond." However, a few scenes later, she met with Bond's superior M (Judi Dench), serving as a new undercover MI6 agent in training with M before her mission to Iceland to shadow James Bond - while continuing her spying on Graves. She explained what she already know about the "wild" 00 Bond: "He'll light the fuse on any explosive situation and be a danger to himself and others. Kill first, ask questions later....A man nobody can get close to. A womanizer." She feared: "A man like him could blow my cover." She had been on the case for three months after volunteering, and claimed: "Graves seems to be clean," although Bond believed differently. During her three years in Cryptology, M was curious why she hadn't fraternized with any fellow agents despite frequent advances. Miranda stated it would be "foolish" to get involved with Bond. At Graves' Ice Palace in Iceland, she ushered Bond to his ice suite before the formal event of the night.

He forwardly asked: "Would you like to show me more?" Shortly later, when Miranda was introduced to another James Bond Girl, Jinx (Halle Berry), who identified herself as Miss Swift from Space and Technology Magazine, Miranda asked: "I take it Mr. Bond's been explaining his Big-Bang theory." Jinx cleverly replied: "Oh yeah, I think I got the thrust of it." After the evening's presentation by Graves of the Icarus satellite harnessing solar energy, Bond was detected as an intruder by guards outside. Miranda saved him when she pulled him aside into dark shadows and passionately kissed him - revealing herself as a fellow MI6 agent, but also worried: "M warned me this would happen." Bond encouraged her to be more convincing with another kiss: "Come on, put your back into it." Although she followed his instruction, she also added: "Remember, I know all about you, 007. Sex for dinner, death for breakfast.

Well, it's not gonna work with me." He complimented her: "You're getting good at this." Bond convinced her to stay with him overnight in his suite: "Keep up the charade of being lovers." As her dress dropped to the floor, she admired how he had been there for two hours before anything had blown up: "The way you're going, you'll get us both killed." She slipped naked into an ice swan-shaped bed with Bond as he told her how he had been betrayed in North Korea: "Occupational hazard." As he kissed her, she exclaimed: "This is crazy. You're a Double-O." He responded: "It's only a number." After making love to him, Miranda returned to her own room, and Bond promised to come back for her. A little bit later, Bond held Graves at gunpoint, knowing that he was previously rogue North Korean weapons-dealer Colonel Moon who had used gene therapy to radically alter his appearance. Miranda approached and held a gun on Graves -- (Graves: "Miss Frost is not all she seems." Bond: "Looks can be deceptive") -- and then swiveled her gun to face it toward Bond.

She was the traitorous double-agent mole who had betrayed him in Korea (Graves: "She was right under your nose"). When Bond attempted to fire his gun, Miranda told how she had sabotaged it when they slept together. Graves explained how he fatally poisoned Frost's opponent in the Olympics in order to win her loyalty (Graves: "I won myself my very own MI6 agent using everything at my disposal: her brains, her talent, even her sex" Bond: "The coldest weapon of all"). When Graves ordered Miranda to shoot and kill Bond (Miranda: "I enjoyed last night, James, but it really is death for breakfast"), he activated his sonic agitator ring to crash through the glass floor they were standing on, sending both him and Miranda to the jungle floor below, before escaping. Later, when confronting Jinx and commenting on her martial arts kick that flattened Zao, she boasted of her sexual exploits with Bond: "Nice moves, just like Bond. He was pretty vigorous last night as well." Jinx retorted: "He did you? I didn't know he was that desperate." Miranda threatened Jinx with death and then locked her up.

The final match-up between Jinx and Miranda came onboard Graves' massive cargo plane. Miranda was intent on killing her after Jinx's drowning had failed: "I'll have to try something more to the point." The two fought to the death in a sword/knife battle - and she was killed when Jinx stabbed her with a dagger stuck through "The Art of War" booklet and impaled it into Miranda's chest - and thrust it deeper with a karate kick, retorting: "Read this - Bitch!" Miranda and Jinx Sword/Knife Fight to the Death Greatest Bond Girls in James Bond Films (chronological, each Bond film a separate page) James Bond: 10 Most Deadly Bond Girls – Page 7 James Bond: 10 Most Deadly Bond Girls 5. Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson - Halle Berry - Die Another Day Jinx pretty much encapsulates exactly what a Bond girl should be, smart, strong and sexy, she is more than a match for Bond and does her fair share of the dirty work during Die Another Day.

She is an NSA agent who quickly joins Bond on his mission to spy on Zao and deduce his connection to Gustav Graves, managing to infiltrate the command centre that Graves has set up in Iceland, during which she shows she is no stranger to guns and close quarters combat, although she is soon captured before being rescued by Bond. Despite that setback, Jinx more than proves her deadly skills during a fight with the MI6 traitor Miranda Frost aboard Graves' rapidly falling cargo plane, first escaping as Frost holds her at knifepoint before retaliating with a throwing knife, which embeds itself into a copy of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and finally engaging her in a full-on sword fight, even fighting back from a sword wound to the stomach, all whilst displaying her various acrobatic skills. Jinx eventually gains the upper hand on Frost by grabbing the book with the knife embedded into it and sticking it straight into Frost's chest, before kicking the knife deeper into her heart to finish her off. This moment is effortlessly cool and is even the same kill method that Jean Claude Van Damme used in last year's The Expendables 2 to rid the team of Liam Hemsworth.

If it's good enough for a martial arts master, it's good enough for us. Interestingly Jinx was actually speculated to have her own spin-off film, with MGM reportedly keen to set up a franchise around her character as what they called a 'winter olympics' alternative to James Bond, something which had also been rumoured with Michelle Yeoh's character from Tomorrow Never Dies, Wai Lin. Unfortunately MGM eventually pulled the plug on these films, citing that they were keen to continue with the next James Bond film instead. In case you needed further convincing of Jinx's status in this list, which I'm sure you don't, an ITV news poll once saw her voted as the fourth toughest girl on screen of all time, a list only topped by Uma Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill, now that's proof if ever there was any. Halle Berry | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Last: Die Another Day Halle Berry is an American actress, a former fashion model, and beauty queen who starred as the Bond girl Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson in the 2002 Bond film Die Another Day with Pierce Brosnan .

Berry received an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG, and an NAACP Image award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has also been involved in the production side of several of her films. Career Before becoming an actress, Berry entered several beauty contests, finishing runner-up in the Miss USA (1986), and winning the Miss USA World 1986 title. Her breakthrough feature film role was in the 1991 Jungle Fever. This led to roles in The Flintstones (1994), Bulworth (1998), X-Men (2000) and its sequels, and as Bond Girl Jinx Johnson in Die Another Day (2002). She also won a worst actress Razzie Award in 2005 for Catwoman and accepted the award in person.

Personal life Divorced from baseball player David Justice and musician Eric Benét, Berry has been dating French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry since November 2005. Their first child, a girl named Nahla Ariela Aubry, was born on March 16, 2008. Trivia Following her Best Actress win at the 2002 Oscars, Berry became the first Academy Award winner to be a leading Bond girl in the EON Productions film series, winning her award while shooting Die Another Day . Kim Basinger (who played Domino in the unofficial Never Say Never Again ) won her Oscar for L.A. Confidential long after she had been a Bond Girl. Judi Dench who plays M also has an Oscar from Shakespeare in Love. Berry wasn't the only member of the Die Another Day cast and crew to do well at the Oscars during filming. Sound recordist Chris Munro also won the Oscar for Best Sound for his work on Black Hawk Down. Coincidentally, the award was presented to him by Berry. The fuchsia crystal dress Jinx wears during the Ice Palace party in Die Another Day was designed by Donatella Versace.

Costume designer Lindy Hemming saw a similar Versace design in a fashion magazine and requested Donatella to make one to Halle Berry's specifications. A spin-off of Die Another Day was planned, featuring Halle Berry's character Jinx as the lead. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote for two months and even a director was hired (Stephen Frears). However, after the failure of other female-character-driven action films like Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, MGM pulled the plug on the project. Halle Berry has said that she would love to return as Jinx in another Bond movie. She has allegedly said that she would like to do it so much she would do the role for free. Berry's bikini scenes in Die Another Day were shot in Cadiz and were not sunny and warm as they appeared onscreen but quite the opposite. Berry had to be wrapped up in thick towels in between takes to avoid catching a chill. Debris from a smoke grenade landed in Halle Berry's eye during the filming of Die Another Day . The actress required a 30 minute operation to remove it.

After the release of Die Another Day , Pierce Brosnan was approached by a man in a Dublin bar who asked to shake his hand. Brosnan complied and then cracked up when the man quipped, "That's the closest my hand will ever get to Halle Berry's arse". The scene where Berry's Jinx walks out of the sea in a bikini, wearing a white belt and a diving knife is a tribute to Honey Ryder 's in Dr. No . So is the gun that Jinx has to surrender to Miranda Frost on board the plane- a Beretta Cheetah . Bond Girls: Where Are They Now? - ABC News ABC News By LUCHINA FISHER ( @luchina ) and SHEILA MARIKAR Nov. 9, 2012 James Bond is back in the new movie " Skyfall ," which opens today, and he's got not one -- but two -- new Bond girls vying for his affection. Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe (right) are the latest actresses to step into the iconic role of Bond's love interest.

French actress Marlohe handles the more traditional Bond girl role as Sévérine, sharing a scintillating shower scene with Daniel Craig 's Bond, while Harris, who hails from England, has more action sequences as Eve, an MI6 field agent. PHOTOS: 50 Years of James Bond Stars Together they join the pantheon of more than 80 Bond girls in 23 films sharing screen time with the world's sexiest spy. With memorable names like Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead or Christmas Jones, some have been allies, others enemies -- but all are jaw-droppingly gorgeous, whether in an evening gown, bathing suit or nothing at all. While more than a few newcomers have gotten a major career boost from playing a Bond girl, established stars have also taken on the high-profile role. Here's a look back at some of the franchise's most famous faces. RELATED: Secrets to the Queen's Bond-Themed Olympic Entrance Halle Berry Halle Berry was probably the most famous actress cast as a Bond girl.

Already well-established, Berry won her Oscar for "Monster's Ball" in 2002, while filming "Die Another Day." As Bond girl Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson, Berry recreated the scene made famous by Ursula Andress 40 years earlier in "Dr. No," when she emerges from the water to be greeted by James Bond, played by Pierce Brosnan. Berry wore an unforgettable orange bikini and a knife as an homage to Andress. The actress told Ebony that the scene was "sexy" and "provocative" and "will keep me still out there after winning an Oscar." Today, Berry, 46, is one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. She has a daughter, Nahla, with model Gabriel Aubry and is engaged to French actor Olivier Martinez. Ursula Andress The quintessential Bond girl, Swiss actress Ursula Andress pioneered the role as Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No," in 1962. Her opening appearance in the scene, emerging from the Caribbean sea in a white bikini to greet Sean Connery as Bond, is considered one of the classic moments in cinema and earned her a Golden Globe.

After appearing in films with Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, Andress played Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond satire "Casino Royale," but she was never able to replicate the fanfare of "Dr. No." When she gave birth to her only child at 44 -- the father is Harry Hamlin -- Andress, now 76, scaled back her career, focusing mainly on European films. Denise Richards One of the more memorable Bond girls, Denise Richards played nuclear physicist Christmas Jones opposite Brosnan in the 1999 film "The World Is Not Enough." Though she called the character brainy and athletic, her appearance in tight shorts and low-cut tank tops earned her a ranking as one of the worst Bond girls of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008. She also earned the 1999 Razzie Award for "Worst Supporting Actress." Despite poor reviews, Richards went on to star in numerous movies and TV shows, including several opposite Charlie Sheen, whom she married in 2002. They had daughters Lola and Sam before going through a nasty public divorce.

Richards, now 41, adopted a third daughter, Eloise Joni, in 2011. Carey Lowell Former Ford model Carrie Lowell played Bond girl Pam Bouvier, an ex-CIA agent who assists Bond's Timothy Dalton, in 1989's "Licence to Kill." Minor roles in several films, including "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Leaving Las Vegas" followed. Then, Lowell landed the lead role of assistant district attorney Jamie Ross on the television drama "Law & Order" and its spinoff, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury." Since marrying Richard Gere in 2002, following the birth of their son, Homer, Lowell, 51, has been mostly absent from the screen. Like her husband she is a devotee of Tibetan Buddhism.

Barbara Bach Model Barbara Bach played Russian spy Anya Amasova, who is rescued by Roger Moore's James Bond in 1977's "The Spy Who Loved Me." Though she was critical of the role, telling People in 1983 that Bond is "a chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets," she became an international sex symbol and later starred in "Force 10 from Navarone" and 1981's "Caveman," where she met husband Ringo Starr. Bach, 65, who hasn't worked as an actress since the mid-80s, sometimes tours with Starr, even playing some of his songs. She has also appeared in Playboy several times, as recently as 2008. Jane Seymour Though she had a handful of roles before becoming a Bond girl, Seymour's portrayal of Solitaire in 1973's "Live and Let Die" is really what launched her Hollywood career. She catches the eye of Bond, played by Roger Moore, but her looks aren't her only talent. Solitaire's ability to read tarot cards and see into the future makes her an asset to Bond and his enemy, Dr.

Kananga -- that is, until she loses her virginity to Bond and saps her psychic skills in the process. Last month Seymour revealed some of the real drama that went down on the set of "Live and Let Die." She told Britain's Hello! magazine that while shooting the climax of the movie, in which Bond saves Solitaire from a voodoo sacrifice, Moore actually ended up saving her life. "We were supposed to descend into a grave together, but it all went horribly wrong," she said. "The gravestone was actually a forklift truck in disguise and as the guy operating it pressed the wrong button, it collapsed. I could have plummeted into the chasm, but Roger instinctively grabbed my hair and pulled me towards him. I fell on top of him, on his private parts, which must have hurt." Famke Janssen Despite her good looks, Famke Janssen's Xenia Onatopp was bad news. The Russian Bond girl, former fighter pilot, and type-A sadist relishes crushing her foes with her thighs, as she attempts to do to Bond (Pierce Brosnan) in 1995's "GoldenEye." In real life, the role turned out well for Janssen.

Being a Bond girl exposed the Dutch actress to a wide audience, and she ended up appearing in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" and the "X-Men" series of movies. Last year, Janssen made her directorial debut with the Milla Jovovich and Bill Pullman fronted drama "Bringing Up Bobby." Kim Basinger Basinger made a living dabbling in modeling and TV gigs, but playing Domino Petachi opposite Sean Connery's Bond in "Never Say Never Again" made her a star. In the 1983 movie, Bond woos Domino away from her lover by posing as her masseuse at a Monte Carlo spa. (Connery as a masseuse? We'd be wooed too.) Hollywood came calling after Basinger's Bond girl debut. She earned her first Golden Globe nomination the following year and began working on the legendarily steamy "9 1/2 Weeks" soon after that. Basinger may best be remembered for "L.A. Confidential" now, the movie that scored her an Oscar, but Bond buffs can say they knew her way back when.

Michelle Yeoh Yeoh's Bond alter-ego, Colonel Wai Lin, wasn't just eye-candy -- she was a huge asset to Pierce Brosnan's Bond in "Tomorrow Never Dies." A Chinese spy with mean martial arts skills, she initially thinks Bond is out to kill her. They develop a mutual trust after getting captured by the insane media mogul Elliot Carver, and after destroying him, they rev up the relationship from business to pleasure. Bond watchers praised Yeoh for matching wits with the legendary spy. (Entertainment Weekly called her turn as Wai the first Bond girl "you could take seriously.") Yeoh went on to wow critics again in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," scoring a BAFTA nomination for best actress. Teri Hatcher Since Wai Lin wouldn't succumb to Bond until the end of "Tomorrow Never Dies," he had to get his kicks somewhere else. Hatcher plays Paris Carver, wife of the evil media mogul Elliot Carver, and, conveniently, Bond's ex-girlfriend. The spy seduces Paris and gets her to spill details that help him break into her husband's newspaper headquarters. When the evil Elliot finds out, he has her killed.

Hatcher's career, on the other hand, went chugging on thanks to Bond. She landed the role of Susan Mayer in "Desperate Housewives," the juicy ABC drama that ended its eight season run earlier this year.

Question: In the James Bond film "Die Another Day" who played Bond girl Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson?
Answer: Halle Berry