Ursula Andress Net Worth

Ursula Andress's Quotes

• I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see other people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.
• Today, there hardly is any good woman's role written for films. If one does come along, it is psychological - about a sick woman.
• It's a mystery. All I did was wear this bikini in Dr. No (1962) - not even a small one - and whoosh! Overnight, I made it.
• To me, it's much more moral to live with the man you love, without signing a piece of paper, than to live legally in an atmosphere of boredom which can eventually turn to hate.
• When I love a man, I live only for him. I become his slave.

Interesting Facts about Ursula Andress

1. Engaged to Harry Hamlin from April 28, 1980 to June 29, 1983.
2. Once engaged to Fabio Testi. He proposed in an airplane.
3. Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#53). [1995]
4. Lived with Jean-Paul Belmondo from 1965 to 1972. He was, she says, the love of her life.
5. Is the only actress to appear in a canon Bond movie (Dr. No (1962)), an unofficial Bond film (Casino Royale (1967)) and also appear as a character in a Bond novel ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service").
6. Is fluent in English, French, German, Italian and Swiss-German.
7. Her voice was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962) and She (1965) because of her strong accent.
8. Her younger sister, Kàtey Andress, posed topless for Cavalier magazine in 1966.
9. Contracts she signed with Paramount and Columbia in the mid-'50s resulted in no acting roles due to her lack of attendance in speech class.
10. Celebrated her 70th birthday aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in the company of an international crowd of celebrities in Edinburgh, Scotland. [May 2006]
11. Of French and Italian descent on her mother's side.
12. Friends with Linda Evans, Amanda Lear, Sally Kellerman, Grace Jones, Britt Ekland, Olivia Newton-John, Tina Turner, Lola Navarro and Bo Derek.
13. Ex-stepmother of Russell and Sean Catherine Derek.
14. Born to Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who was temporarily expelled from Switzerland for tax evasion in 1946, and Anna Andress (1912-2008), a landscape gardener turned florist. Ursula and her siblings were brought up by their maternal grandparents.
15. Linda Evans drove Ursula to the hospital the night she gave birth to hers and Harry Hamlin's son, Dimitri Hamlin. Harry was retrieved from the set of King of the Mountain (1981) by Linda's personal assistant Bunky Young and made it to the delivery room just in time.
16. Described her wedding to John Derek a nightmare, marrying him in a small Las Vegas chapel with a cab driver as their best man and a ring that did not fit.
17. Studied painting, sculpture and dance in Paris.
18. Grew up in Ostermundingen, a city in the district of Berne, like TV host Michelle Hunziker and Lauriane Gilliéron, a former Miss Switzerland, who both attended her 70th birthday party.
19. On September 30, 1955, James Dean asked Andress to go with him to San Francisco in his Porsche 550 Spyder. But after talking to John Derek, he realized she felt in love with the latter, so Dean left Los Angeles without her.
20. Developed reputation as a serial homewrecker after being named correspondent for the divorces between John Derek and Pati Behrs, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Elodie Constant, and Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young. (Fellow Bond girl Lana Wood had already invaded the last marriage before Andress came along, but the press blamed her nonetheless.) Even Harry Hamlin had a fiancé when she hooked up with him. Her unapologetic explanation? "When you are in love, you are in love. That's all that matters.".