GoldenEye (1995)

MI6
Moneypenny
Moneypenny
Played by Samantha Bond
When Pierce Brosnan first used his licence to kill in GoldenEye he was welcomed by a new, more stubborn Moneypenny. Mostly immune to 007 in her first outing, she tells Bond that “he never had her” and even playfully questioned if statements amounted to sexual harassment.

 

Bill Tanner
Bill Tanner
Played by Michael Kitchen
Kitchen’s portrayal as M’s Chief of Staff can be seen as the most adversarial. He references Dench’s M as the “evil queen of numbers” – complaining she relies more on statistical analysis and factual information rather than instinct and experience. She overhears this comment, but luckily for him she mostly ignores it.

 

Allies
Valentin Zukovsky
Valentin Zukovsky
Played by Robbie Coltrane
Zukovsky is the head of the Russian Mafia in St. Petersburg and a former enemy of Bond. The two form an awkward alliance – Bond motivated by Zukovsky’s information about Janus and Zukovsky motivated by greed.

 

Jack Wade
Jack Wade
Played by Joe Don Baker
A replacement for Felix Leiter, Wade first appeared in GoldenEye as Bond’s friend from the CIA. He is a middle-aged man who has had many love interests, enjoys gardening and has a rose-shaped tattoo over his right butt cheek, saying “Muffy&”. Joe Don Baker also played the villain Whitaker in The Living Daylights.

 

Girls
Natalya Simonova
Natalya Simonova
Played by Izabella Scorupco
Simonova is a Russian computer programmer and one of the two Severnaya survivors and teams up with Bond to help him to stop Alec Trevelyan’s plan. She later helps him track down the villain’s hidden base.

 

Xenia Onatopp
Xenia Onatopp
Played by Famke Janssen
Onatopp is a KGB assassin now working for the Janus syndicate and is a very memorable character. She kills her victims by crushing them to death with her shapely thighs.

 

Henchmen
Boris Grishenko
Boris Grishenko
Played by Alan Cumming
A hacker working for Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Boris uses his computer skills to carry out a series of cyber-thefts from major British institutions before Trevelyan uses the GoldenEye satellite to wipe out all London bank records.

 

Villains
Alec Trevelyan
Alec Trevelyan
Played by Sean Bean
Trevelyan is a British spy turned into a Russian mafia head. Once working for MI6 as agent 006, he defected to a life of crime during a mission with 007 in a Russian nerve gas factory. Nine years later he masterminds a villainous plan to rob and then destroy London with the GoldenEye satellite under the name Janus.