Vesper Lynd (Casino Royale)

Vesper Lynd (Casino Royale)

Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. The name is a pun on "West Berlin". It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on the real life Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale, she is played by Ursula Andress. In the 2006 adaptation, she is played by Eva Green. Coincidentally both Ursula Andress and Eva Green won the BAFTA awards for best actress for their role in their respective Bond movies (Dr. No and Casino Royale).

In the novel, the character explains that she was born on a "dark and stormy" night, and her parents named her "Vesper" after the Latin word meaning evening to commemorate the night. Fleming created a cocktail recipe in the novel that Bond names after her. The "Vesper martini" became very popular after the novel's publication, and gave rise to the famous "shaken, not stirred" catchphrase immortalised in the Bond films. The actual name for the drink (as well as its complete recipe) is uttered on screen for the first time in the 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale.

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Quotes·Quotations by Vesper Lynd

Eva Green as Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale (2006)

¶ I don't believe you. You've got a choice, you know. Just because you've done something doesn't mean you have to keep doing it.

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