Jill St. John Jill St. John Jill St. John (born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim; August 19, 1940) is an American actress. She played Bond girl Tiffany Case in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971). St. John was born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Edward (1912–1986), a prosperous restaurant owner., and Betty Oppenheim (née Goldberg, 1912–1998), who became her stage mother. St John is of the Jewish faith. As a young girl, St. John was a member of the Children's Ballet Company with Natalie Wood and Stefanie Powers. Her mother Betty changed Jill's last name to the more 'Hollywood-sounding' St. John during
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,