Jane Seymour

 Jane Seymour spent most of her teens as a dancer in London, until a series of events led her to Bond, James Bond.

I was very young. I didn't know anything about Bond at the time. I never imagined I'd be a Bond girl. They were looking for a virgin and I was a nicely brought-up girl from Wimbledon. I never really auditioned. went in and met (producer) Harry Saltzman, and he hired me on the spot.

"I was the only woman on the planet that was not trying to be a Bond girl, literally," she continues. "That was not the trajectory I was looking for. I was going to go and do Shakespeare and Ibsen and all the classics. They were looking for a virgin to play the High Priestess of Tarot, and I was playing a virgin on television [on Onedin], so I'm assuming they thought I had some memory of that experience. I just remember Roger Moore was lovely. He realized I was so green and didn't know what was going on. I took the whole thing terribly seriously, like it was a major acting role — and they were probably more concerned about how I looked and how my figure was."