Caroline Munro (born January 16, 1950) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. Her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain’s The Evening News “Face of the Year” contest.

Caroline Munro as Naomi in a promo.

Hammer Films CEO Sir James Carreras spotted Caroline on a Lamb’s Navy Rum poster/billboard. He asked his right hand man, James Liggett, to find and screen test her. Caroline was immediately signed to a one-year contract. Her first film for Hammer proved to be something of a turning point in her career. It was during the making of Dracula AD 1972 that she decided from this film onward she was a full-fledged actress. Up until then she was always considered a model who did some acting on the side.

In 1977, she turned down the opportunity to play villainess Ursa in Superman: The Movie in favor of what would become her most celebrated film appearance, the ill-fated helicopter pilot Naomi in the Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. In one of the franchise’s most memorable car chase sequences, she seductively winks at Bond while trying to gun him down from her helicopter. In her role as Naomi, she holds the distinction of being the first woman ever killed by James Bond. Cubby Broccoli urged Caroline to make her way to America in search of more lucrative offers. She declined preferring to stay close to her family.