Bond girl Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader". In 2009, researchers at Cleveland State University and Kent State University published an article, "Shaken and Stirred: A Content Analysis of Women's Portrayals in James Bond Films", which provided a quantitative content analysis of 195 female characters appearing in twenty James Bond films. Bond girl A Bond girl is a character (or the actress portraying a character) who is an attractive love interest or female sidekick of James Bond in a novel, film, or video game. Bond girls occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, Xenia Onatopp,
Helena Blackman Helena Blackman Helena Blackman (born 10 December 1982 in Southampton) is a British musical theatre actress best known for being the runner-up in the hit BBC1 Reality TV programme "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". She trained at the Guildford School of Acting. On 29 October 2006, Blackman was seen as Gypsy Rose Lee in a production of "" which was performed at the Wales Millennium Centre as part of the "Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre". In December 2006, Blackman played Dorothy in an acclaimed run of "The Wizard of Oz" at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.