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| 1 | Selling her Beverly Hills home for $2.5 million. [September 2016] |
| 2 | An occasional photographer, some of her pictures have been featured in Elle and Paris Match. |
| 3 | Onetime boyfriend Nels Van Patten is the brother-in-law of daytime soap star Eileen Davidson, who appears on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010) with Lisa Rinna, the current wife of Ursula's ex Harry Hamlin. |
| 4 | Worked with fellow Bond girls Claudine Auger in Le dolci signore (1968), Barbara Bach in Stateline Motel (1973) and Luciana Paluzzi in The Sensuous Nurse (1975). |
| 5 | Turned down the role of Empress Nympho in History of the World: Part I (1981), which went to Madeline Kahn. |
| 6 | Turned down the role of Nova in Planet of the Apes (1968), which went to Linda Harrison. |
| 7 | Turned down Sharon Tate's role in Valley of the Dolls (1967). |
| 8 | Turned down Raquel Welch's role in One Million Years B.C. (1966). |
| 9 | Runs painting and furniture auctions. |
| 10 | Made a fortune dabbling in the stock market. |
| 11 | The third of six children. She has a brother, Arthur and four sisters, Erica, Kàtey, Charlotte and Ruth. |
| 12 | Has been linked romantically with automobile designer John DeLorean, singer Julio Iglesias, Brazilian soccer player Paulo Roberto Falcão, American actors Dennis Hopper and Ryan O'Neal, Austrian actor Helmut Berger, French actor Daniel Gélin, Italian actors Gerardo Amato, Marcello Mastroianni and Franco Nero, real estate developer Stan Herman (second ex-husband of Linda Evans) as well as Ricci Martin (son of Dean Martin), Nels Van Patten (son of Dick Van Patten), Lorenzo Ruspoli, hairdresser Claudio Belfiore and former Sicilian regional assembly member Fausto Fagone, who was a 20-year-old economics student when Andress began a five-year relationship with him in 1986. |
| 13 | She worked with Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen and Burt Bacharach on both What's New Pussycat (1965) and Casino Royale (1967). |
| 14 | Was the original choice for the role of Sophie in Sophie's Choice (1982) but Meryl Streep, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar for her performance, was cast instead. |
| 15 | Developed reputation as a serial homewrecker after being named correspondent for the divorces between John Derek and Pati Behrs, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Elodie Constant, and Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young. (Fellow Bond girl Lana Wood had actually invaded the last marriage before Andress came along, but the press placed the blame on her nonetheless.) She unapologetically explained "When you are in love, you are in love. That's all that matters.". |
| 16 | On September 30, 1955, shortly before his death, James Dean asked her to go with him to San Francisco in his Porsche 550 Spyder. But after talking to John Derek, he realized that she was having an affair with the latter, so Dean left Los Angeles without her. |
| 17 | Grew up in Ostermundingen, a city in the district of Berne, like TV host Michelle Hunziker and Lauriane Gilliéron, a former Miss Switzerland, who both attended her 70th birthday party. |
| 18 | Studied painting, sculpture and dance in Paris. |
| 19 | Described her wedding to John Derek a nightmare, marrying him in a small Las Vegas chapel with a cab driver as their best man and a ring that did not fit. |
| 20 | Linda Evans drove Ursula to the hospital the day she gave birth to hers and Harry Hamlin's son, Dimitri Hamlin, while Linda's personal assistant located Harry on the set of King of the Mountain (1981) and brought him there in time for the event. |
| 21 | Born to Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who had disappeared during World War II, and his French wife Anna, a gardener. |
| 22 | Ex-stepmother of Sean Catherine Derek. |
| 23 | Friends with Linda Evans, Britt Ekland, Lola Navarro and Bo Derek. |
| 24 | Is Swiss-German. |
| 25 | On May 18, 2006, she celebrated her 70th birthday aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia in the company of an international crowd of celebrities in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 26 | A contract she signed with Paramount Pictures in the mid-'50s resulted in no acting roles due to her lack of attendance in the speech class they had arranged for her. |
| 27 | Her younger sister, Kàtey Andress, unsuccessfully attempted to start a modeling career. |
| 28 | Her voice was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962), She (1965), The Blue Max (1966) and Casino Royale (1967) because of her strong accent. |
| 29 | Is fluent in English, French, German, Italian and Swiss-German. |
| 30 | Is the only actress to appear in a canon Bond movie (Dr. No (1962)), an unofficial Bond film (Casino Royale (1967)) and also appear as a character in a Bond novel ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"). |
| 31 | Lived with Jean-Paul Belmondo from 1965 to 1972. |
| 32 | Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#53). [August 1995] |
| 33 | Was once engaged to Fabio Testi. |
| 34 | Lived with Harry Hamlin from 1979 to 1983. They had a son, Dimitri Hamlin, in 1980. |
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