Naomi is a character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, played by actress Caroline Munro.

Caroline Munro as Naomi.

Biography: Naomi is Karl Stromberg’s personal helicopter pilot. She is first seen in the film escorting Dr Bechmann and Prof Markovitz in to see Stromberg and then exits. She is then not seen again until much later in the film. When we see Naomi, she is driving Bond and Triple X on a boat to Atlantis posing as marine biologists to meet Stromberg.

After Bond and Triple X leave their meeting with Stromberg, he is seen talking to someone about letting them get ashore and then kill them. It is later found out that he was talking to Naomi. After a failed attempt by the motorcycle assassin, along with Jaws and his henchmen in his car, one of the most memorable chase scenes ensues with Naomi taking to the air in a helicopter. As the helicopter comes from behind the cliff, it tries to gun down Bond’s Lotus. It pulls up next to him, and Bond is shocked to see Naomi piloting it. Bond nods at her, and Naomi responds with a sultry wink and opens fire again.

Bond chases Naomi all over the highways of Sardinia until he comes to a port which he immediately drives off into the water. Naomi hovers overhead, believing she’s won. Unknown to her, however, the Lotus is submersible, and so she can’t see it when she’s trying to look into the sea.

Bond then arms the surface-to-air missile and blows Naomi out of the sky. She is the first woman to ever be undeniably killed by James Bond. (There is debate over whether Bond actually kills the character of Fiona Volpe in Thunderball or whether it is accidental; the film leaves this ambiguous.)

See also:

• Bond girls
• Bond henchmen