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3Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger; April 26, 1941 – December 18, 2019) was a French actress.
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5She attended the St. Joan of Arc College and later the Conservatoire of Paris, where she performed dramatic roles. She made her film debut in 1958, when she was still in school. She was also a [[BeautyContest beauty pageant]] at the time, earning the title of Miss France Monde, and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.
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7She's perhaps best known for being the first French actress to play a Film/JamesBond Girl, as Dominique "Domino" Derval in 1965's ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', opposite Creator/SeanConnery. Although she took lessons to perfect her English, her voice was eventually [[SameLanguageDub dubbed]] by Nikki van der Zyl. She also appeared in several French films in the 1960s, as well as several Italian films in the 1970s, in the {{Giallo}} subgenre in particular. She retired from acting in the mid-1990s.
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9She passed away from an undisclosed illness at age 78 on December 18, 2019.
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13* ''Film/TheTestamentOfOrpheus'' (1960) as Minerva
14* ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}'' (1962) as Isabelle de Saint-Mars
15* ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' (1965) as Dominique "Domino" Derval
16* ''Film/ABayOfBlood'' (1971) as Renata Donati
17* ''Film/TheBlackBellyOfTheTarantula'' (1971) as Laura
18* ''[[Film/{{Borsalino}} Borsalino & Co]]'' (1974) as a boat passenger
19* ''[[Series/SherlockHolmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]]'' (1994, episode "The Three Gables") as Isadora Klein
20* ''Literature/TheRedAndTheBlack'' (1997) as Madame de Fervaques

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