Vesper Lynd

Vesper Lynd is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. She was portrayed by Eva Green in the 2006 film adaptation and by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody. In the novel, the character explains that she was born "on a very stormy evening", and that her parents named her "Vesper", Latin for "evening" and James Bond then gives her name to a cocktail he has recently invented. The "Vesper" became popular after the novel's publication. In 1993, journalist Donald McCormick claimed that Fleming based Vesper on Polish agent Krystyna Skarbek, who was working for Special Operations Executive when he knew her. She is also said to be inspired in the figure of Larissa Swirski, a Russian-Spanish double agent whom Ian Fleming had previously met during the Second World War.