French actress Claudine Auger, best known for her role as ‘Dominique’ in the James Bond film ‘Thunderball,’ has passed away at the age of 78.
As The New York Post reports:
French actress Claudine Auger, noted for her role as Dominique “Domino” Derval in James Bond film “Thunderball,” has died at the age of 78.
The news was announced by her agency Time Art, which said she died in Paris on Thursday (December 20), as reported by numerous French press. No cause of death was disclosed.
French actor Claudine Auger, who starred opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond film “Thunderball,” has died aged 78 https://t.co/j1cxB0faou
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Auger began her acting career in France when Jean Cocteau cast her in a small role in his 1960 pic “Testament Of Orpheus.” At the age of 18, she married the French filmmaker Pierre Gaspard-Huit, who was 43 at the time, and he cast her in several of his films including his 1958 film “Christine” in which she appeared alongside Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.
Her big break came when she landed the role of Domino in “Thunderball,” the fourth pic in the James Bond franchise in which she starred with Sean Connery, playing the mistress of arch villain Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi). Auger’s role in the pic had initially been intended for an Italian actress, but casting directors were so impressed by her that the part was rewritten to be French.
Her husband passed away in 2008, and she had one child.
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