- Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 – 21 December 1969) was a German actress who portrayed the antagonist Irma Bunt in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This was her most famous role but also her last before her death from heart failure less than a week after the release of the film. Steppat was presumably supposed to reprise her role in the film Diamonds Are Forever (1971) but after her death, Irma Bunt was removed from the plot and has never reappeared in film since.