Campaign Ambassador: Ursula AndressUrsula Andress – A Hollywood Icon
Family life
- Actress, Hollywood icon and mother, Ursula Andress is considered the most popular Swiss actress of all time
- In 1980 she gave birth to her beloved son Dimitri, who she raised in Rome
- Ursula lives in a country house where she enjoys tending her beautiful garden. Ursula is very active, walking and swimming regularly
- Ursula has remained genuinely Swiss in her spirit and approach to life despite having lived all over the world
Career Highlights
- Ursula’s successful career has spanned four decades, during which she has appeared in over 30 films
- Ursula was discovered by Paramount Pictures who persuaded her to move to Los Angeles where her international career started
- During these exciting years, she met the legend Marlon Brando in Rome and they became best friends for life
- Countless Hollywood legends have shared the screen with Ursula including:
- Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra in “Four for Texas” 1963
- Elvis Presley in “Fun in Acapulco” 1963
- Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole in Woody Allen’s “What’s new Pussycat” 1965
- Christopher Lee in “She” 1965
- Marcello Mastroianni in “The 10th Victim” 1965
- James Mason and George Peppard in “The Blue Max” 1966
- Jean-Paul Belmondo in “The Tribulations of a Chinese in China” 1965
- David Niven and Peter Sellers in “Casino Royale” 1967
- Orson Welles and George Segal in “The Southern Star” 1969
- Alain Delon and Toshiro Mifune in “Red Sun” 1971
- Additionally, Ursula was romantically involved with the original rebel, “East of Eden” star James Dean
- Ursula’s admirers also included the world famous composer and pianist Burt Bacharach, who created as a tribute to Ursula, his most famous song “The Look of Love”
- However it was in 1962 that Ursula was immortalized in Hollywood history with her smoldering-yet-aloof screen presence as “Honey Ryder” in the James Bond film Dr. No with Sean Connery
- ‘That scene’ of her emerging from the sea, immediately established Ursula as one of the most desired women in the world, helped to start the James Bond legend that continues to this day, and set the Bond Girl standard beside which
all future Bond actresses would be judged





