Anecdotes

Shapely, reddish-haired Italian leading lady who followed a wave of 1950s Italian bombshells (Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida) into films, providing sexy but routine diversion in spy intrigue.

Appeared in the same year in Des agents très spéciaux (1964) and the James Bond film Opération Tonnerre (1965); in both she plays a villain's associate, who attempts to seduce the hero, and dies when the hero pushes her into the line of fire in her own death trap.

She was originally considered for the lead Bond girl Domino Derval in Opération Tonnerre (1965), which was eventually played by former "Miss France" Claudine Auger. Instead, she played the evil secondary role of Fiona Volpe, the fetching, bouffant-haired nemesis who accidentally takes it in the back while dancing with 007, and is probably better remembered for it. Sean Connery's Bond has the memorable line directed to a couple sitting near the dance floor: "Do you mind if my friend sits this one out? She's just dead."

Fluent in Italian and English.

She's the daughter of an Italian army officer.

Has son Christian Halsey Solomon with actor Brett Halsey.

Lives in Bel-Air.

Quit acting after marrying her second husband, Michael Jay Solomon.

Stated that, like many actresses who play the Bond women, she found herself pigeon-holed after the film. Italy's top filmmakers such as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni would not want to cast her in their films.

Now a successful business woman in America, with a grown up son,.