Cassandra Hepburn

Cassandra Hepburn may be a Bond girl. We’re not saying she may play one someday—although she may—we’re saying if we found out tomorrow she was a spy, we’d believe it. “I saw Dr. No when I was seven years old,” she recalls in a smoky, mostly British accent. “I saw Ursula Andress and said, ‘That’s what I want to be.’” Her international-woman-of-mystery résumé is solid: Born in the Philippines, she grew up in Hong Kong, Switzerland and the U.K. and was living the nomadic life of a model when she decided to get serious about acting. In her first movie, Time Lapse, she played a lesbian hacker. “I’ve never had a real sex scene,” she complains, “but in that film I fondle my roommate a bit.” Next up: a pole dancer on The Young and the Restless. “There I was in my skivvies again,” she says. “I get a lot of roles where I’m down to my skivvies.” But the right people were starting to notice: When Eli Roth tells Quentin Tarantino to take a look at you, you’re on a good path. That’s how she ended up in Hell Ride, the neo-grind house biker flick produced by Q.T. Cassandra won’t reveal any plot twists, saying only, “It’s my first sexy-sexy role. The men will not be disappointed.” She’s also in Surfer, Dude, as Woody Harrelson’s nine-months-pregnant Polynesian wife—her first ugly-ugly role, perhaps. “They had to put me in the ugly chair,” she says. “I’d come out with makeup on and ratty hair, and Matthew McConaughey would look at me and say, ‘Nope, still too pretty.’”