Claudine Auger

Overview
Born April 26, 1941 in Paris, France
Died December 18, 2019 in Paris, France (illness)
Birth Name Claudine Oger
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Mini Bio
Claudine Auger, a former Miss France 1st Runner-up (1958), received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette “Domino” opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965), She has kept fairly busy since her Bond days, acting in a number of Italian, French and Spanish films including The Bermuda Triangle (1978), Credo (1983), and La bocca (1991).

Spouse
Peter Brent (20 April 1984 – 2008) ( his death) ( 1 child)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (4 February 1959 – 1969) ( divorced)
Trivia
1958’s Miss France 1st Runner-up.
Related to model and actress Zoe Aggeliki.
She was nominated for the Golden Laurel Award for New Actresses in 1966.
She gave birth to her first child at age 49, daughter Jessica Claudine Brent, on April 14, 1991. The father is her second husband, the businessman Peter Brent, who died in 2008.
In the 70’s, she was the companion of the director Jacques Deray with whom she made several films.
Last name pronounced “aw-jay”.
Is the first French actress to play the main James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965). The other French actresses who followed her in the Bond films are: Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), and Léa Seydoux in Spectre (2015), Corinne Cléry in Moonraker (1979).
An excellent swimmer she did all her own underwater scenes in Thunderball including a love scene with Sean Connery on the sea bed during which she lost her bikini top.
Height 5ft 8 inches, auburn hair.
She was one of eight who tested for the role of Domino in Thunderball.
Is the first main Bond girl from the EON production film series to pass away. Though Linda Christian, who played the Bond girl in a TV adaptation of Casino Royale, had already died.
Also theater actress.
Upon her death, Auger’s obituary in The New York Times featured an image of her Thunderball (1965) co-star Luciana Paluzzi whom the newspaper misidentified as Auger.