| Solange Dimitrios | |
|---|---|
| Character from the James Bond franchise | |
| Relatives | Alex Dimitrios (husband, deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Caterina Murino |
Solange Dimitrios is a fictional character from Ian Fleming's James Bond short story "007 in New York".
The name "Solange Dimitrios" was then used in the 2006 adaptation of Casino Royale for the character played by Caterina Murino. In the film, Solange is the sad and lonely wife of Alex Dimitrios, an accomplice of leading antagonist Le Chiffre.
Due to its brief length, the original "007 in New York" short story reveals next to nothing about Solange's background, other than her relationship with Bond.
Bond also fantasizes about meeting a girl that he would call "Solange" in the short story "From a View to a Kill".
Solange Dimitrios is the first Bond girl in the 2006 film adaptation Casino Royale. She is the estranged and lonely wife of antagonist Alex Dimitrios who is an enemy to Bond in Miami as he is working with Le Chiffre.
Solange, wife of terrorist middleman Alex Dimitrios, inadvertently provides James Bond with information that allows him to stop a bomber destroying a Skyfleet prototype aircraft at Miami airport. Solange lives the life of luxury with her husband. Nevertheless, she feels that she has wasted her chance of true happiness by getting involved with the wrong men. Aware that her husband is a bad man, she knows little about how he makes his money. She has long since become weary of his bad temper and his coldness. After riding her horse along the beach front, she notices Bond emerging from the sea and is instantly attracted to him.
That evening, Solange arrives at a poker game where her husband plays against Bond. Losing, Dimitrios reacts coldly to his wife's affection. Bond soundly defeats her husband, even winning his car, a superb Aston Martin DB5. When Solange mistakenly gets into the Aston Martin, Bond invites her for a drink. Sensing a spark of humanity long absent from her life, she accepts, despite realising that Bond may be using her to get closer to her husband. At Bond's hotel room, Bond and Solange's passion is interrupted by a telephone call by Dimitrios, who tells Solange that he is flying to Miami that night. Unaware to Solange, who heads to the bathroom, Bond makes a quick exit to pursue him. When the bomb plot goes awry, Le Chiffre suspects that Solange (due to being the only other person still alive) leaked information. He has his men torture and kill her, leaving her wrapped in a hammock with a stomach full of oil to be found by Bond and his boss M.
After Bond meets and purchases a dress for accountant Vesper Lynd, he asks her to enter in a certain way so that the other players at the table will focus more on her than their own cards. This is how Solange entered at the casino in the Bahamas which struck Bond like a thunderbolt. Vesper fails to act out Bond's plan as he requests her to, and suffers more through distraction by her than his opponents do.