- Born
- Died
- Birth nameClaudine Nicole Yvonne Oger
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Claudine Auger, a former Miss France 1st Runner-up (1958), received her dramatic training at the Paris Drama Conservatory and is best known to US / UK audiences as the stunning brunette "Domino" opposite Sean Connery in the James Bond thriller Thunderball (1965), She has kept fairly busy since her Bond days, acting in a number of Italian, French and Spanish films including The Bermuda Triangle (1978), Credo (1983), and La bocca (1991).- IMDb Mini Biography By: firehouse44@hotmail.com (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymoous and Vincent Lefèvre)
- Her measurements of 37-25-37 helped her to win the title of Miss France at the age of 15. Later in London as an au- pair she was picked from the final 4 from 600 possible girls, one of which was Raquel Welch, for the role of Domino in the James Bond film Thunderball. Her sister Anne - Marie made her screen debut in Le Testament d'Orphee in 1959, and has appeared in advertisements for the French Concorde, She's married to a British businessman,- IMDb Mini Biography By: Toinyman 5
- SpousesPeter Brent(April 20, 1984 - August 2008) (his death, 1 child)Pierre Gaspard-Huit(February 4, 1959 - January 21, 1969) (divorced)
- ChildrenJessica Claudine Brent
- 1958's Miss France 1st Runner-up.
- Is the first French actress to play the main James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965). The other French actresses who followed her playing the main Bond girls are: Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), and Léa Seydoux in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
- An excellent swimmer she did all her own underwater scenes in Thunderball including a love scene with Sean Connery on the sea bed during which she lost her bikini top.
- She gave birth to her first child at age 49, daughter Jessica Claudine Brent, on April 14, 1991. The father is her second husband, the businessman Peter Brent, who died in 2008.
- Upon her death, Auger's obituary in The New York Times featured an image of her Thunderball (1965) co-star Luciana Paluzzi whom the newspaper misidentified as Auger.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content