Trivia

1958's Miss France 1st Runner-up.

Is the first French actress to play the main James Bond girl in Thunderball (1965). The other French actresses who followed her playing the main Bond girls are: Carole Bouquet in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), and Léa Seydoux in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

An excellent swimmer she did all her own underwater scenes in Thunderball including a love scene with Sean Connery on the sea bed during which she lost her bikini top.

She gave birth to her first child at age 49, daughter Jessica Claudine Brent, on April 14, 1991. The father is her second husband, the businessman Peter Brent, who died in 2008.

Upon her death, Auger's obituary in The New York Times featured an image of her Thunderball (1965) co-star Luciana Paluzzi whom the newspaper misidentified as Auger.

She was nominated for the Golden Laurel Award for New Actresses in 1966.

She was one of eight who tested for the role of Domino in Thunderball.

Shot a part in The Eiger Sanction (1975), only to have her scenes deleted before release.

Is the first main Bond girl from the EON production film series to pass away. Though Linda Christian, who played the Bond girl in a TV adaptation of Casino Royale, had already died.

Last name pronounced "aw-jay".

In the 70's, she was the companion of the director Jacques Deray with whom she made several films.

Height 5ft 8 inches, auburn hair.

Was the mother of model and actress Zoe Aggeliki.

Also theater actress.