Honey Ryder Ryder was voted the best Bond Girl by "Entertainment Weekly". Author Anthony Horowitz named his James Bond tribute character Alex Rider after Honeychile Rider. Honey Ryder Honeychile Rider is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel "Dr. No". In the 1962 Bond film of the same name, her name was shortened and changed to Honey Ryder. In the film, she is played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress and due to her heavy accent was dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl. In the film series, Ryder is widely regarded as the first Bond girl, although she is not the
Ursula Andress starred in alongside Derek, "Nightmare in the Sun" (1965). In 1965, nude photographs of her from "Nightmare in the Sun" were published in "Playboy"; it would be the first of seven times she was pictured in the magazine over the next fifteen years. When asked why she had agreed to do the "Playboy" shoot, Andress replied coolly, "Because I'm beautiful." Andress was cast in the title role of "She" (1965) playing an immortal queen, for Hammer Films and Seven Arts Productions, shot in England and Israel. Andress agreed to make it as part of a two-picture deal with Seven Arts.