Friday, April 13, 2007

Help wanted: British Spy Dame

JOHN CLEESE is

The idea here is that he had some field experience before transfering to Q branch.Algernon Smith, Agent 1123


PATRICK MCGOOHAN is

McGoohan insists that Number 6 and Danger Man were not the same characters.  But what does he know? John Drake, Agent 706



SEAN BEAN is

'Pay no attention to the fact that I turn villain for a later movie.'

Alec Trevelyan, Agent 722



That's three of the four MI6 agents for my James Bond 007 scenario. But I still need a sassy Brit chick who can pull her own weight in the espionage game. Preferably, it would be someone who could play the part in the year 198x without her seeming out of time. My first thought was Diana Rigg (who is timeless), but upon further consideration that struck me as a little creepy since she was "killed" while playing Tracy Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Anybody got any other suggestions?

Kathleen, this PC is for your use. Do you have any strong preferences?

13 comments:

  1. A few suggestions

    Emma Thompson: http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors/EmmaThompson.jpg
    http://www.anyoldactress.com/pictures/emmathompson2.jpg

    Pamela Salem (she played Miss Moneypenney):
    http://shillpages.com/dw/story/st--7h01.jpg


    Nastassja Kinski:
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/37/Nastassja_Kinski_in_Exposed.jpg/200px-Nastassja_Kinski_in_Exposed.jpg

    Annette O'Toole:
    http://www.nndb.com/people/096/000024024/aot4.jpg

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  2. I'll have to think about it. Of the ones suggested so far, Emma Thompson is my favorite actress but I'm not certain she has the right vibe for this.

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  3. Anonymous3:57 PM

    Ummm.... Agent 99? Hello?

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  4. Anonymous4:14 PM

    Elisabeth Hurley?

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  5. Thandie Newton
    http://www.independentcritics.com/images/truth%20about%20charlie%20SPLASH.jpg
    http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/cinema/diaporama/06/casino-royale-james-bond-girls/thandie-newton.jpg

    Cate Blanchett
    http://www.titen.it/lotr/per/cast/ph_cate_blanchett.jpg
    http://images.thewavemag.com/images/articles/11001-12000/11098.jpg

    Uma Thurman
    http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/velvet1966/UMA.jpg

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  6. Liz Hurley would be great, but she *did* turn out to be a FemBot.

    Perhaps go with "Mrs. Kensington" from the first movie, the fetching Mimi Rogers.

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  7. Amanda Donohoe, a favorite since Lair of the White Worm, coincidently playing a "sexy assassin" on Brit Tv currently.
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000372/

    Caroline Munro, probably disqualified since she would have just finished the spy who loved me.

    Wanda Ventham, perhaps? Bits in the Saint, the Prisoner, Avengers, Danger Man, Dr Who, and of course, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter.
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0893243/
    http://www.shadolibrary.org/crew/lake/index.htm

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  8. Forget Mrs. Kensington, I'd completely forgotten about Ingrid Bergman in Notorious. Cate Blanchett is also a great choice.

    http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1228/Mptv/1228/1398_0005.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Bergman,%20Ingrid%20(I)

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  9. Anonymous2:07 AM

    Be-still-my-heart sweetheart Jane Merrow, circa 1967, who naturally would have a kind of easy (if not immediately explicable) kinship with 706.

    (Or not, depending on whether you'd be going by/referencing her appearances Danger Man, Saint, Avengers, Prisoner, or Mission:Impossible ... (etc). or some combination of all of them.)

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  10. It's a pity Barbara Bain is American - she was utterly amazing on Mission: Impossible. There are lots of good suggestions here, and I'd be fine with any of them.

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  11. Huh. I was just working under the assumption that the actress in question had to be able to pass as British...

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