Former Miss Rome and runner up for Miss World 1960, Bianchi made approximately 15 film appearances, the best known was playing Soviet clerk "Tatiana Romanova" in the sexy 007 adventure From Russia with Love (1963), in which her voice was dubbed by actress Barbara Jefford. Bianchi spoofed her spy role in the woeful OK Connery (1967), before effectively retiring from acting in 1968, and some years later she married a wealthy shipping magnate.
