Frau Farbissina is a fictional character from the Austin Powers series of movies, played by Mindy Sterling. She is the attack and defense specialist (and one time lover) of Dr. Evil.
Farbissina parodies several characters in the James Bond films, including From Russia with Love's Rosa Klebb and On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Irma Bunt, but her look and demeanor are most directly an homage to the female Nazi officer in the castle scene of India...
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Frau Farbissina is a fictional character from the Austin Powers series of movies, played by Mindy Sterling. She is the attack and defense specialist (and one time lover) of Dr. Evil.
Farbissina parodies several characters in the James Bond films, including From Russia with Love's Rosa Klebb and On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Irma Bunt, but her look and demeanor are most directly an homage to the female Nazi officer in the castle scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
She has a German accent, and founded "the militant wing of the Salvation Army". Her surname is a take-off of the Yiddish word 'farbissen' ('verbissen' in German) or "embittered". Furthermore, "Frau" (German for "Mrs." or "woman") actually seems to be her first name. A "farbissiner" is an angry, bitter, vocal person.
In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me however, when Dr. Evil goes back in time to 1969, he sleeps with Frau before she realises that she is Bisexual; as a result, she gets pregnant. It turns out...
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