Miss Taro is a James Bond character from the first film in the series Dr No. She is both a Bond girl and a henchman, and is portrayed by Zena Marshall.

Zena Marshall as Miss Taro.

Miss Taro works at Government House in Kingston, where she is a secretary to the Colonial Secretary, Pleydell Smith. She also works for Dr Julius No, although it is only Bond who discovers this. Bond first meets her at Government House. When she realises that Bond and Pleydell Smith are talking about Dr No, she listens through the keyhole.

Bond then decides, with Miss Taro, to visit her house in the hills outside Kingston, but he doesn’t know that this is in fact a trap and that it’s planned that The Three Blind Mice will kill him. Bond manages to shake them off when they chase his car (their car crashes and the Blind Mice are assumed to have been killed). He goes up to Miss Taro’s house were she is surprised to see him.

Bond then says: “Don’t go to any trouble, on my part”.

Miss Taro then makes love with Bond to make time for Professor Dent to come and kill him. Bond phones for a taxi to collect them for dinner. Taro gets in and it is revealed to be not a taxi but a police car. She is presumably arrested, and Bond stays in the house waiting for the Professor, whom he later kills.

See also:

• Bond girls
• Bond henchmen