Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson is a fictional character in the James Bond film Die Another Day. She is played by American actress Halle Berry.

Halle Berry as Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson.

Biography: Jinx, so nicknamed because she was born on Friday the 13th, is a spy for the National Security Agency. She first meets agent 007 in Havana, where they are both tracking the North Korean terrorist, Zao. The two spies end up working together against Gustav Graves, who is trying to take over the world with a giant laser. She initially becomes his lover merely to find out how MI6 is involved in the investigation of Zao, but she truly returns his advances after the mission succeeds.

She is instrumental in the success of the mission, killing Graves’ ally, Miranda Frost, by impaling her with a throwing knife stabbed through a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Her introductory scene, as well as her outfit, is a homage to Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr No.

The portrayal of Jinx as a spy for the NSA is technically inaccurate; the real NSA is responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications (which includes codebreaking) to produce signals intelligence information, not physical operations. This misconception is common in fiction. It is also interesting to note that she plainly states that the NSA has been evesdropping on Zao’s communications. Thus, the writers tried to connect her actions to the NSA’s primary responsibility.

See also:

• Bond girls