Sylvia Trench is a character in two James Bond films. She is portrayed by Eunice Gayson.

Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench.

In the first of Sean Connery’s outings as British secret agent 007, Dr No, he meets Trench across a Baccarat Chemin de Fer table at the London club Le Cercle. Her love of games comes to the fore when she later appears playing golf in his apartment, apparently wearing only his shirt.

She makes a second appearance in From Russia with Love where she shares a picnic with Bond before he gets paged by Miss Moneypenny, thus making Trench the only Bond girl in the James Bond films to appear twice. When the film series was started, the idea was to have Trench be a recurring character, with a running gag of Bond constantly being called away on business just as things were about to get intimate with her, but this idea was scrapped during the filming of Goldfinger. Trench was supposed to have appeared in the first six, becoming the main Bond Girl in her last one.

Trench can be credited with giving the cinematic Bond his most iconic catchphrase; at the Chemin table, when Bond asks her name, she replies: “Trench, Sylvia Trench” and when she asks Bond his he replies in the now-familiar style, “Bond, James Bond,” “mimicking Trench’s own cadence.

See also:

• Bond girls