Frau Farbissina

Frau Farbissina
Austin Powers character
Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina
First appearance	International Man of Mystery
Last appearance	Austin Powers in Goldmember
Created by	Mike Myers
Portrayed by	Mindy Sterling
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Attack and defense specialist, Founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army, Henchwoman
Significant other(s)	Dr. Evil Una Brau
Children	Scott Evil
Nationality	German

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.

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.