I heard recently that Nikki van der Zyl, the woman who dubbed the voices for many of the leading female characters in the Bond films (Honey Ryder in Dr No; Sylvia Trench in From Russia with Love; Jill Masterson in Goldfinger; Dominique Derval in Thunderball; and Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice), died in 2021.
I was in email contact with her in 2019, after I emailed her telling her how much I appreciated what she had done for the Bond films. She thanked me, and sent me a copy of her autobiography.
I lost contact with her in 2020. I think she might have caught Covid in a bad way, and that was what eventually caused her death. She was 84, and lots of people that age were dying from Covid. May she rest in piece.
