Miranda Frost is a double agent from the James Bond film Die Another Day. She is portrayed by Rosamund Pike.
Biography[]
Miranda Frost is a Harvard-educated, gold medal-winning Olympic fencer (trained by Verity) posing as Gustav Graves' publicist and fencing partner. She won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics by default, after Graves organized the real gold medalist's death by drug overdose. This earned him Miranda's allegiance.
In the film, Miranda is sent by Mto work alongside Bond, but does not approve of his methods. When caught by Mr. Kil and his minions, she helps Bond keep incognito by kissing him. They later spend the night together in Miranda's suite to keep up the pretense that they are lovers. James awakens and goes after Graves. Miranda pleads for him not to go, but he insists.
When Bond finally confronts Graves, it is revealed that Frost is the traitor who betrayed him in North Korea, which led to 14 months of incarceration and torture at the hands of the North Koreans. Bond attempts to kill her, but realizes that his weapon is empty; while in bed together, she had taken the opportunity to empty his gun. With Frost's pistol trained on him and escape looking unlikely, Bond uses the sonic agitator ring - provided by Q - to shatter the glass platform on which they were both standing. Frost and Bond fall into the jungle environment of Graves' geodesic dome (a structure alongside Grave's Ice Palace). After attempting to murder Bond with Graves' satellite weapon, Icarus, the villains leave aboard an Antonov An-124 aircraft.
Eventually, Bond and his American NSA counterpart, Jinx, catch up with Graves and Frost in North Korea. Boarding Grave's Antonov, the pair split up; but Jinx is caught by Frost at the controls of the aircraft. Frost initially holds Jinx at sword-point, forcing her to give up her gun and turn the plane on autopilot. As the plane flies through Icarus' beam, they are suddenly thrown off-balance. Jinx fights with Frost, who manages to slice her across her chest, tearing her uniform. Jinx throws two knives at Frost, who deflects them both. Frost and Jinx have a climactic sword duel aboard the descending plane. Frost slices Jinx across the stomach, mocking Jinx that she can read her foe's every move. However, Jinx manages to stab Frost's chest with a knife that was embedded in a copy of The Art of War, yelling, "Read this, bitch!" She then kicks Frost again in the breasts to further impale the knife into the villainess, killing her. As Jinx and Bond escape, the aircraft explodes, destroying Frost's body.
In the novelization of the movie, Jinx also stabs Miranda after a fierce duel, though the villainess remains alive for a while longer. Nevertheless, Frost is abandoned by Bond in the burning Antonov as she begs him to carry her to safety. Unable to follow Bond and Jinx due to her chest injury, Miranda loses her balance and slumps into the plane's gym. As she is consumed alive by flames, the aircraft explodes into burning debris, and her remains are further destroyed by the minefields below.
Trivia[]
- Rosamund Pike is arguably most famous for playing sociopath Amy Dunne in the film adaption of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
- She also appeared as protagonist villain Marla Grayson in the 2020 movie I Care a Lot
- She appeared as the villanous matriach Veronika Vanderberg in Now You See Me Now You Don't (2025)
- Mrs. Pike also played Brigette Kuhlmann in 7 Days In Entebbe.
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