Claudine Auger Death: Cause Of Claudine Auger Death: How James Bond Star Died

Claudine Auger death is the talk of the town in the movie industry. The James Bond star best known for her role alongside Sean Connery in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, was said to have suddenly died in Paris, France.

YaahooJournalist understands that the late Claudine Auger, started out as a model, representing France and coming first runner-up in Miss World in 1958 but she quickly developed a talent for acting and landed roles including one in the 1962 film “The Iron Mask“.

Cause Of Claudine Auger Death, How James Bond Star Died

According to her agency Time Art, Claudine Auger died on Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at age 78 at her home in Paris, France, following a long period of illness.

Late Claudine Auger. Photo credit: Twitter.

Claudine Auger rise to stardom

A few years later in 1965, Claudine Auger shot to global stardom as Domino in Thunderball, the fourth film in the Bond franchise.

Claudine Auger was the first female co-star to the James Bond character, known as a “Bond girl”, to be from France. It was later revealed that the production team had rewritten the character for Auger. Domino was initially supposed to be Italian, but she became French.

Meanwhile, “Bond girls” were rarely given recognition for their acting talents, with the focus at the time instead of being on their physical appearance and swimsuits.

Claudine Auger, however, approached the role as she would if she were “playing Molière” at a prestigious theatre, she told a TV interview in 1965.

It was “a game, the same thing”, the late Claudine Auger had said at the time.

After Thunderball, Claudine Auger went on to have a fruitful career in French and Italian cinema throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.

Among Claudine Auger’s best-known films are crime thrillers That Man George and Flic Story, and the romantic tragedy A Few Hours of Sunlight.