In honour of the release of Skyfall which features one of film's most powerful roles for a woman in big boss M, here are the top female role models on screen...
Since 1995's GoldenEye, Dame Judi Dench has held the role of M, the woman at the helm of MI6 (the Secret Intelligence Service) and James Bond's spymaster boss who proclaimed that 007 was a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur". Her character was inspired by the real-life head of Britain's MI5 at the time - Stella Rimington. She was the first female in a Bond film who didn't need to use sex-appeal for her success.