Melina Havelock

"I'm half-Greek, and Greek women, like Elektra, always avenge their loved ones"
Appearance: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Played By: Carole Bouquet

For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Roger Moore as 007. One of the least iconic of the movies, FYEO has the dubious responsibility of bridging the gap between the abortions that are Moonraker and Octopussy (despite the latters glowing review from Homer Simpson)
FYEO returns the Bond franchise to the world of espionage and, despite Bill Conti's "Rocky outtakes" score and some completely flat slapstick comedy, it is one of the better written stories in the series with more realistic characters than those expected from a Moore 007 film.

James Bond is called to Greece to investigate the murder of marine archaeologist Sir Timothy Havelock and his wife, gunned down during a project to recover a device responsible for the co-ordination of Polaris submarines, the ATAC. Bond tracks Havelocks assassin, Hector Gonzalez, to a palatial estate, but before he can question him, Gonzalez is killed as he dives into his swimming pool, struck by a single bolt fired from the crossbow of Sir Havelock's daughter, Melina.
Thus, 007 and Melina team up to work together on both his mission and her personal vendetta, avenging her parents murder (Despite Bonds assurance her that one pursuing revenge "should first dig two graves")



Melina Havelock, played by French actress Carole Bouquet, is a natural beauty with Mediterranean good looks, piercing eyes and very long and straight dark hair. Speaking in seductive, hushed tones, Melina is arguably the first Bond girl in a long time to break rank of the cliche, being tough, intelligent and truly independent, capable of dropping a man with her trusty crossbow or doing some wacky stunt driving in a Citroen 2CV.

Definitely the most emo of the Bond Girls, Melina spends almost the entire films duration looking pissed off (Well, I guess her parents HAVE just been murdered) this kinda knocks her back and forth between acting like a focused woman of vengeance and a sulky teenager who didn't get tickets for Fall Out Boy.
No, Miss Havelock is not a big one for smiling, or shaving for that matter, as the grey line constantly trailing her top lip will attest to.
I guess it's that "Mediterranean look" right?

Moustache or no moustache, In a series which has a tendency to present its females as weak and useless, Melina Havelock is a breath of fresh Grecian air, and still stands proud as one of the best written Bond girls. Melina is beautiful, lethal and honourable and her character is never required to resort to the the usual forced "Bikini/Evening gown" scenes in order to look sexy.
Whilst For Your Eyes Only is not a Bond film people often reference in conversation, Melina Havelock gives the viewers a glimpse of the hard-edged direction female Bond characters would take in much later years.