Bérénice is new 007 co-star

Bérénice, 32, follows in the footsteps of French Bond girls Eva Green, Sophie Marceau and Carole Bouquet in the 23rd Bond film, which also marks the 50th anniversary of the first film, Dr No. It is due for release in 2012.

She has had to learn how to use a gun and had martial arts training for the femme fatale role, which some have hinted could see her playing a new incarnation of Miss Moneypenny alongside Dame Judi Dench as M.

It is a new direction for Bérénice who appears in the Dacia Cars TV advert, haughtily saying she “could not spend so little on a car.”