Paris Carver is a character who appeared in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and is portrayed by Teri Hatcher.

Teri Hatcher as Paris Carver in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’.

Paris Carver was a beautiful brunette who was once a lover of Bond. He left her behind, however, because his job was too dangerous for a real relationship. She later married TV and news media mogul Elliot Carver, who leads a conspiracy to start a war between the United Kingdom and China — a war that his news divisions would have exclusive coverage of, sending his ratings into the stratosphere. MI6 sends Bond to investigate, and he eventually crossed paths with Paris. M has instructed him to remind her of their previous relationship then “Pump her for information”.

When Bond sees her again, her beauty is not lost on him, but she is not exactly pleased to see him. When he comes up in conversation with her husband, Paris lies that he had dated her roommate and that she barely knew him.

In the novelization by Raymond Benson, Paris Carver is from a New England or New York Family. Benson references that she has a New England accent. One day she and Elliot had gotten into a fight and Elliot had hit her in the face because she had called him a “grouch”. After that incident, she never called him a grouch.

Suspecting that the man she has married is up to something nefarious (and out of a need to be with Bond again) Paris goes to him after her husband’s henchmen tried to kill him. At first he tries to send her away, but they are too strongly drawn to each other. They have sex, and Bond confesses that he had left her because she had gotten too close.

Paris gives Bond the information he needs, but Carver, who has been spying on his wife, sends his personal assassin, Dr Kaufman, to her room hours later to kill her. Paris’ murder ignites in Bond the desire for revenge, shaking his usual professional detachment and clouding his judgement. His eventual partnership with Chinese Intelligence agent Wai Lin brings him back to his senses, and provides him with another lover. Carver, himself, shows a hint of regret at this choice later during the film.

See also:

• Bond girls