Luciana Paluzzi is an Italian American actress. She is best known for playing S.P.E.C.T.R.E. assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball.
In the film Thunderball she had auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta “Domino” Petacchi, but producers cast Claudine Auger, changing the Domino character from an Italian to a Frenchwoman and renaming her Dominique Derval.
Paluzzi’s very first film was an uncredited walk-on part in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
