Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger; 26 April 1941 â€" 18 December
2019) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl,
Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965).
She earned the title of Miss France Monde (the French representative
to the Miss World beauty pageant) and was also the first runner-up in
the 1958 Miss World contest.Auger was born in Paris, France. She
attended St. Joan of Arc College and later the Conservatoire de Paris,
where she performed dramatic roles. She made her film debut when she
was still in school.Jean Cocteau cast Auger in an uncredited role as a
tall ballerina in Testament of Orpheus (1960). When she was 18, she
married the 43-year-old writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and he
cast her in several films, including Le Masque de fer (1962) and Kali
Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963). In 1966 she co-starred in the World
War II drama Triple Cross with Yul Brynner and Christopher
Plummer.When she was on holiday in Nassau, writer-producer Kevin
McClory saw her and recommended that she audition for his film
Thunderball (1965). The role of Domino was originally to be an Italian
woman, Dominetta Petacchi. Auger impressed the producers so much that
they rewrote the part to that of a French woman, to better suit Auger.
Although she took lessons to perfect her English, her voice was
eventually dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.[citation needed] Auger would
claim that she related to her character Domino, as she and Domino were
both involved with older men.[citation needed] The most immediate
byproduct of Claudine's stardom was a semi-nude Playboy spread. Claudine Auger Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter