Claudio Santamaria
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Carlos played by Claudio Santamaria

Born in Rome, Italy on 22nd July 1974

Starred in Casino Royale (2006)

film information

Carlos is the ninth villain of Casino Royale. With Mollaka dead, Alex Dimitrios is under orders by Le Chiffre to find a replacement. Before confronting Bond at the Body Worlds exhibition in Miami, Dimitrios leaves a ticket on some gambling chips on one of the exhibits. After Bond has killed Dimitrios he notices that the ticket has disappeared and that the bag that was stored in the cloakroom under that ticket has gone. Running outside to be confronted by the mass of people, Bond uses quick thinking to call the person using Dimitrios’ phone, since he had sent a text to him already. After identifying the target, Bond follows Carlos to Miami International airport.

At the airport Bond follows Carlos who changes into a police uniform and enters a restricted area just before Bond can stop the entry door from closing. After gaining entry, realising that the message sent to Mollaka and Carlos spelt out the numbers to use on the door keypad, Bond follows Carlos. Activating the sprinkler system as a diversion, Carlos walks unchallenged through security and out onto the runway. He commandeers a fuel truck and before heading off towards the Skyfleet S570 prototype, attaches a small keyring bomb to the underside of the tanker.

Bond pursues Carlos on foot, managing to run up some aircraft stairs and jumps on top of the tanker. Carlos tries to dislodge Bond by running the tanker into all sorts of aircraft vehicles, while Bond tries to get Carlos out of the cabin. As the tanker approaches the Skyfleet S570 prototype, Carlos jumps from the tanker leaving Bond to stop the tanker just before it hits the plane. After Bond is arrested by security services, Carlos smugly starts to detonate his bomb. During the fight however Bond had removed the bomb from the tanker, placing it on Carlos’ belt. He realises this too late however as he is killed by his own bomb. §