Pussy Galore

Goldfinger's gang leader and pilot, played by Honor Blackman.

Pussy Galore appears in Ian Fleming's 1959 novel Goldfinger and the 1964 film, where Honor Blackman plays her. Blanche Blackwell, thought to have been the love of Fleming's later life, is believed to be his model for her, and Anthony Horowitz brought her back in the 2015 continuation novel Trigger Mortis.

Quick Facts

Portrayed by: Honor Blackman
Series: James Bond
First: Goldfinger (1959 novel)
Last: Trigger Mortis (2015 novel)
Creator: Ian Fleming
Affiliation: Auric Goldfinger (film); The Cement Mixers (novel)

Lore & Background

In the novel she grew up poor in the rural American South, became a circus acrobat, and turned her troupe of trapeze artists into a cat-burglar gang, the Cement Mixers, based in Harlem, the only American crime gang known to be run by a woman. Bond notes her violet eyes, the only ones he has ever seen. In the film her catwomen become a team of stunt pilots.