MITSOUKO

Contributed by: The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin

(1943–March 1995; birth name: Maryse Guy): Actress of European and Japanese descent, briefly active in films and television, who portrayed Mademoiselle LaPorte, French contact to James Bond (Sean Connery) in the Thunderball pre-credits teaser. She’s waiting with the Aston Martin when Bond escapes from a chateau in a Bell Rocket Belt.

She made her film debut in director Max Pécas’s French erotic drama Sweet Violence (1962). Sadly, she died by suicide in 1995.

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