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Gender
  
Female

Played by
  
Children
  
Scott Evil

Portrayed by
  
Nationality
  
Creator
  
Significant others
  
Dr. Evil, Unibrau

Frau Farbissina's wacky face in a movie scene from Austin Powers (1997 film series)

Last appearance
  
Occupation
  
Attack and defense specialist,Founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army,Henchwoman

Movies
  
Austin Powers: Internatio, Austin Powers: The Spy, Austin Powers in Goldmember

Similar
  
Dr Evil, Scott Evil, Basil Exposition, Number 2, Vanessa Kensington

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Frau Farbissina (Frau Kaput in Spain), is a fictional character played by Mindy Sterling in the Austin Powers film series. Farbissina is an attack and defence specialist and the founder of "the militant wing of the Salvation Army", she is also Dr. Evil's Henchwoman and tries to help in his schemes to terrorize and take over the world. She has a heavy German accent, and has several catchphrases that are always shouted by her, and emphasis is often put on the last syllable. For her performances Mindy Sterling was nominated for Favorite Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the BMI Film & TV Awards.

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Frau Farbissina's wacky face in a movie scene from Austin Powers (1997 film series)

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Characterization

Frau Farbissina looking afar while wearing gray blazer, white long sleeves and black necktie

Frau's look and demeanour are parodies of several female villains from early James Bond films, namely From Russia with Love's Rosa Klebb, On Her Majesty's Secret Service's Irma Bunt, and particularly the character of Frau Hoffner (played by Anna Quayle) in the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale. Farbissina asserts that she would eventually like to get out of the criminal mastermind business and open a boarding school for girls. This is another reference to Quayle's "Frau Hoffner" role in Casino Royale, in which Hoffner heads an international spy school in East Berlin known as the "Mata Hari School of Dancing", where she boards and trains young women to be agents for both sides of the Cold War. Her surname is a pun on the Yiddish word פאַרביסן "farbissen" ("verbissen" in German), or "embittered"; a "farbissiner" is an angry, bitter, vocal person. "Frau", German for "Mrs." or "woman", is apparently her given name.

Background

Frau Farbissina smiling while wearing a black coat and white long sleeves in a movie scene from Austin Powers (1997 film series)

She has a heavy German accent; in the German dubbed versions of the films, she speaks with an Upper Saxon dialect, suggesting coming from East Germany. In Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Doctor Evil Story, a half-hour-long preview special of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Dr. Evil states that he met Farbissina "at gymnasia in Baden-Baden at a street corner next to the McDonald's."

Frau Farbissina shouting while wearing a black coat and white long sleeves in a movie scene from Austin Powers (1997 film series)

Out of all his henchmen and assistants Farbissina is perhaps closest to Dr. Evil. In praising Dr. Evil, Farbissina commented, "Dr. Evil is a man of great intelligence - able to step on a bug and say 'too bad!

International Man of Mystery

Frau Farbissina shouting while wearing a black coat and white long sleeves in a movie scene from Austin Powers (1997 film series)

Frau participates in helping Dr. Evil hijack a nuclear warhead and hold the world hostage. It is revealed Frau used a sample of Evil's semen just a couple of years after Dr. Evil's cryostasis to artificially create his son, Scott Evil, now a Generation X young adult. Scott is resentful of his father, but close with Frau, the only one who cares about his well being. In the first film, Dr. Evil is about to press a button that would kill Scott for his insolence by burning him alive, but Frau swats his hand away, then winks at Scott.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The second film jumps from the 1990s to the 1960s due to time travel. Frau Farbissina looks the same in the 1960s as she did in the 1990s, which was used for comedic effect in the film. In the current timeline, she reveals her homosexuality and mentions being in a relationship with Una Brau, whom she met during an LPGA tour. However, when Dr. Evil travels back in time and, after consuming some of Austin Powers' mojo, he engages in a sexual encounter with Frau. This leads to an uncomfortable morning-after encounter and Farbissina swearing she will never love another man. In the closing credits, Farbissina and Scott Evil go on The Jerry Springer Show, in which she reveals herself to be Scott's mother. She also reveals she never told him because she didn't want him to be hurt, he forgives her and they embrace.

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Frau is still helping Dr. Evil in his evil schemes. Frau and Dr. Evil also kiss while he is in prison; although the two enjoy it (despite having been established as a lesbian in the previous movie), the purpose was to transfer a key to Evil so that he could escape. Once her son Scott begins to become evil she shows that she is very proud.

References

Frau Farbissina Wikipedia


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