In the novel, the character explains that she was born 'on a very stormy evening', and that her parents named her 'Vesper', Latin for 'evening' and Bond then gives her name to a cocktail he has recently invented. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation. Survivors also include her children Kathy, Rouben, Alexander and Stephen grandchildren Sophie, Ben, Emma and Hannah and Levi and sister Michal.Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She reappeared as an actress on German television in the 1990s.įluent in five languages, Lavi lived in Asheville with her husband, Charles, since 1992. In the early 1970s, Lavi turned to singing and performed “Oh, wann kommst du?” (When Are You Coming?) and “ Willst du mit mihr geh’n?” (Do You Want to Go With Me?), which became big pop hits in Germany. She played the pretentious actress Ilona Bergen in the Agatha Christie remake Ten Little Indians (1965) and also showed up rather nicely in Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), opposite Rod Taylor, and Catlow (1971), starring with Yul Brynner. Mabuse (1961), The Demon (1963) and The Whip and the Body (1963) before attracting attention as The Girl in writer-director Richard Brooks’ Lord Jim (1965), starring Peter O’Toole. Lavi (that’s her stage name it means “lioness” in Hebrew) had appeared in such European fare as The Return of Dr.

A decade later, they worked together in Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), and she received a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer (female) for her work. Her other work in the comic genre included The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966), starring Lawrence Harvey, and Some Girls Do (1969).Īt her 10th birthday party, Lavi met Kirk Douglas, who was filming The Juggler in her town in what is now Israel, and arranged for her to study ballet. Tom Wilkinson, Oscar-Nominated Actor Known for 'Michael Clayton' and 'The Full Monty,' Dies at 75 The dark-haired, dark-eyed sex symbol then returned for another spy spoof, playing one of the “James Bonds,” aka The Detainer, in Casino Royale (1967) opposite David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress and Woody Allen. In The Silencers (1966), the first of the four Matt Helm movies that starred Dean Martin as the American superspy, Lavi played the femme-fatale Tina Batori she saves the hero from getting a dagger in the back while he is in the embrace of a gorgeous female enemy agent. Lavi died Wednesday at her home in Asheville, N.C., her family announced. Daliah Lavi, the exotic beauty who starred in the swinging 1960s spy spoofs Casino Royale and The Silencers, has died.

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