Celebrity Biographies
Eunice Gayson
Ursula Andress is remembered as the female lead in “007 vs. Doctor No”, the first film by the agent with a license to kill. But before she appeared on screen, Sean Connery would say her name, “My name is Bond, James Bond” to another woman. Eunice Gayson, the actress who played Sylvia Trench, in the first two films of the saga, has died in the United Kingdom, on June 8, 2018, at the age of 90. “We are saddened to hear the news,” Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, current managers of the franchise, have expressed in a statement.
Born on March 17, 1928, in the British capital, she studied to become an operatic soprano. She later triumphed on the London stage with the musical “The Sound of Music”, where she played the baroness, the protagonist’s love rival.
In cinema he only obtained roles in second-rate films, until he took part in Frankenstein’s Revenge , a popular production of the company specializing in fantastic cinema Hammer Films. When preparing 007 against the doctor she No she auditioned to become the secretary, Miss Moneypenny, but ended up giving her the role of Trench, who came on screen before the protagonist, playing in a casino. She reprized in the sequel, From Russia with Love . She has since gone on to intervene in series such as The Saint , starring Roger Moore , destined to become the successor to Sean Connery in the saga of the agent in the service of Her Majesty.
Eunice Gayson married Leigh Vance, a screenwriter, in 1953. After divorcing in 1959, she was married to stage actor Brian Jackson, father of her daughter, Kate, who later appeared in the casino scene in the 1995 Bond film GoldenEye . .