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- Birth nameMonica Van der Zyl
- Nikki van der Zyl was a German voice actress known for providing the voice of Honey Ryder in the movie Dr. No (1962). She also re-voiced all the other female voices in that same movie, except those of Miss Moneypenny and Miss Taro. Van der Zyl also worked as a dialogue coach who assisted Gert Fröbe, whose English was limited, for the movie Goldfinger (1964). The last Bond film on which she worked was Moonraker (1979), re-voicing Corinne Cléry, Leila Shenna and various other characters.
- IMDb mini biography by: Pedro Borges
- SpousesGeorge Rooker(1968 - ?)Helmut Zondorff(1957 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)
- Performed uncredited voice-overs for various "Bond girls" of early James Bond films. For the film Dr. No (1962), she provided the dubbed voices of several female characters, including Honey Ryder and Sylvia Trench, an assignment which earned her £150. Amongst those she did not dub, were Miss Moneypenny, Miss Taro, and a Chinese girl. Actresses in the Bond films she dubbed include Ursula Andress, Shirley Eaton, Eunice Gayson, and Claudine Auger. She also dubbed Raquel Welch's grunting in One Million Years B.C. (1966).
- She gave up acting to train, and practice, as a lawyer, and also carved out another career as a painter.
- She dubbed Ursula Andress in the films Dr. No (1962), She (1965), The Blue Max (1966), and Casino Royale (1967).
- In Carry on Cleo when Amanda Barrie as Cleopatra is unrolled from a carpet Nikki Van Der Zyl doubled for her.
- She was the daughter of Anneliese (Less) and Rabbi Werner van der Zyl. Her family was German Jewish.
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