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What is Lashana Lynch ethnicity? ›

Lynch was born on 27 November 1987 in Hammersmith, London. She is of Jamaican descent. She attended Twyford CofE High School and ArtsEd drama school in London.

Lashana Lynch

Lynch has already made history as the first woman and the first person of color to inherit the 007 mantle, however temporarily. In No Time to Die, her character, Nomi, inherits Bond's MI6 designation when he goes into exile.

Lashana Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She plays the leading role of Rosaline in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed. Lynch is a graduate of the BA Acting course at ArtsEd drama school in London. She made her film debut in the 2011 drama film Fast Girls.

The work that Lashana Lynch is doing right now is attracting a lot of attention, and she is working on a number of different projects. The upcoming movie Bob Marley: One Love, which is set to be released in the year 2024, is expected to feature her in the character of Rita Marley.

SPYSCAPE went behind the scenes to dig up five surprising secrets about Lashana Lynch, the first female 007 in the film franchise's storied history.

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

The character of Fleming's novels speaks French and German, as noted in Chapter 6 (Death Warrant) of From Russia With Love. Russian, French, and Italian. And he speaks some Greek, Japanese, and Chinese. Those are the ones I remember from the movies.

James Mason - Offered a three-picture contract but turned down the role because he would only agree to do two. Mason later nearly played the villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker. Patrick McGoohan - Was offered the role but turned it down on moral grounds. Bond's success lead to the revival of his series Danger Man.

Daniel told Total Film magazine: "I thought I was probably physically not capable of doing another. For me, it was very cut and dried that I wasn't coming back. "I went and did other things. I got some separation.

Will the next James Bond be a girl? ›

By the end of No Time To Die she's not even 007 anymore, handing Bond his shirt back at the last. In fact, as Barbara Broccoli has made very clear, James Bond will never be a woman. What's happened here is a bit of confusion between a job title, and a character.

Between the Ian Fleming and John Gardner books, James Bond has been fleshed out to be a Scotsman born to a Scottish lord and a Swiss model. About as white as it gets. You can have a non-white James Bond-type character, but that character will not be named James Bond.

He is of part Welsh and distant French descent, counting the French Huguenot minister Daniel Chamier and Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet among his ancestors. His middle name, Wroughton, comes from his great-great-grandmother, Grace Matilda Wroughton.

In a fictional obituary, purportedly published in The Times, Bond's parents were given as Andrew Bond, from the village of Glencoe, Scotland, and Monique Delacroix, from the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Agent 007 is definitely one of the most famous British fictional figures ever created. But according to some sources, he was actually born in the Ruhr valley. An exhibition in Bochum promotes the spy's German roots.