Carole Bouquet is a French actress born on August 18, 1957 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She is an only child, and was raised under the strict Domincan upbringing of her father’s sister. When she was in high school, Carole Bouquet enjoyed visiting museums. She was also fond of movies, where she discovered her passion for acting. After graduating from high school, she went to take up philosophy in Sorbonne, but then shifted courses to the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris.

While studying drama in Paris, Carole Bouquet was discovered by the renowned director, Luis Buñuel Portoles. She was immediately cast in his film, Cet obscur objet du désir, in 1977, which featured a sensualist role that sparked the renaissance in French filmmaking. This was followed by The Woman and the Jumping Jack co-starring Angela Molina. Since then, Carole Bouquet has been one of the beautiful faces that captivated the French audiences.

Carole Bouquet hit Hollywood stardom when she became the Bond Girl in For Your Eyes Only opposite Roger Moore in 1981. Because of her performance in the film, this sexy vixen was quickly offered with roles in movies made by well-known directors such as Schroeter in the German film Der Tag de Idioten (The Day of the Idiots), Doubles Masseurs, which was directed by actor John François Stévenin, and the futuristic flick, Bunker Palace Hotel of Bilal. She also starred as Death personified in Bertrand Blier’s Buffet Froid.

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