List of Austin Powers characters


The following is a list of fictional characters from the Austin Powers series of films.
Austin Powers is a series of American spy action comedy films: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember. The films were produced and written by Mike Myers, who also starred as the title character and Dr. Evil. They were directed by Jay Roach and distributed by New Line Cinema.
The franchise parodies numerous films, TV shows and characters—including the James Bond series, Jason King, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Matt Helm and The Avengers, to name just a few—and incorporates myriad other elements of popular culture as it follows a British spy's quest to bring his nemesis down. The character represents an archetype of 1960s Swinging London, with his advocacy of free love, his use of obscure impressions and his clothing style.
The films poke fun at the outrageous plots, rampant sexual innuendo, and two dimensional stock characters associated with 1960s spy films, as well as the cliché of the ultra suave super spy.
The general theme of the films is that the arch villain Dr. Evil plots to extort large sums of money from governments or international bodies but is constantly thwarted by Powers, and his own inexperience with life and culture in the 1990s.
In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin and Dr. Evil are awakened after being cryogenically frozen for thirty years. Continuing to incorporate cultural elements of the 1960s and 1970s, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember feature time travel as a plot device and deliberately overlook inconsistencies. A proposed fourth film, Austin Powers 4, has reportedly been in development since 2005, but due to numerous issues regarding the death of Verne Troyer and sensibilities regarding minors being exposed to explicit sexual content, it is currently being stalled.

Main characters

Austin Powers

  • Portrayed by: Mike Myers
  • Appears in: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember
  • Based on: James Bond and other secret agents
Austin Powers is a British secret agent, an "international man of mystery." He works as a fashion photographer by day and a British Intelligence agent by night, and always becomes extremely excited when an attractive woman is working with him or is simply nearby. He is the main protagonist of the series.
In all three films, Austin learns of a new plot by Dr. Evil and intervenes to prevent it. His quests to prevent Dr. Evil from carrying out his schemes often involve his meeting various types of people, getting into fights, and getting caught up in wacky situations. He has a new young and sexy female ally in every film.

Dr. Evil

  • Portrayed by: Mike Myers
  • Appears in: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember
  • Based on: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Douglas Powers, better known as Dr. Evil, is the nemesis of Austin Powers and the main antagonist of the series. He is a dimwitted evil genius and the leader of an evil organization, Virtucon, with many henchmen as his allies. In each film, he concocts ridiculous schemes which Austin then foils. Often, his plans are always ridiculously overcomplicated as he fails to realise how much simpler they could be.
Dr. Evil's schemes often include an attempt to take over the world or to blackmail it. One example is when he threatened to destroy Washington, D.C. and further major cities unless he was paid one hundred billion dollars. Aside from his schemes, Dr. Evil and his son Scott talk to each other, but he is a completely awful father, and Scott is often shown to be far more intelligent than his father.
He was originally born Douglas Powers, son of Nigel Powers and twin brother to Austin Powers. He has a son with Frau Farbissina named Scott Evil, who is also the grandson of Nigel Powers and the nephew of Austin Powers.

Austin's allies

Basil Exposition

  • Portrayed by: Michael York
  • Appears in: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember
  • Based on: M
Basil Exposition works for British Intelligence as Austin's controller. A happy-go-lucky man, he is very fond of Austin, saying he is "irresistible to women, deadly to his enemies and a legend in his own time." He and Austin both went to the British Intelligence Academy together at the same time, presumably how they met. Basil often provides Austin with gadgets to help him complete his missions, and he is often seen wearing a carnation, even during his and Austin's time at the academy. His surname is a joke on his principal function in the films — to provide Austin and the audience with the necessary exposition.

Vanessa Kensington

  • Portrayed by: Elizabeth Hurley
  • Appears in: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
  • Based on: Tracy Bond
Vanessa Kensington is Austin's partner in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, and the daughter of Austin's original partner, Marie. A beautiful, determined, intelligent young woman, Austin is heavily attracted to her, and often goes to great lengths to try to get her to sleep with him. She is disgusted by his attempts for much of the film, and continuously resists his temptations, but later grows more attracted to him. At the end of the film, she and Austin marry, and are last seen while on their honeymoon.
In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, she is revealed to be a Fembot when she tries to kill Austin while they are in their honeymoon suite. Later, Basil claims the ministry knew this ahead of time.

Felicity Shagwell

Felicity Shagwell is a CIA agent who is partnered with Austin Powers when it is discovered that Vanessa is a Fembot and to help Austin get his mojo back. Like Vanessa, she is very beautiful and Austin is very attracted to her. However, she is much more attracted to him than Vanessa initially was, and they fall in love with one another..
Felicity is notable for having slept with Fat Bastard in the line of duty to place a tracking device on him, which at first Austin is unhappy with. However, he eventually forgives her, and they work together to defeat Dr. Evil. She was originally intended to appear in the third film, in a scene that explained what happened to her character, but the scene was cut from the final release.

Foxxy Cleopatra

Foxxy Cleopatra is Austin's groovy musician partner in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She is from the 1970s, dressing in fashionable clothing of the era and sporting a very large afro. She uses the word "sugar" often, pronouncing it as "sugah". She and Austin are reunited after eight years when Austin travels back to the 1970s, and they work together to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember.
Her character is inspired by "blaxploitation"-style characters played by Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson.

Number 3

  • Portrayed by: Fred Savage
  • Appears in: Austin Powers in Goldmember
Number 3 is a very young agent and mole who works undercover for British Intelligence. He is assigned by his employers to become the assistant of Number 2, Dr. Evil's right-hand man. He manages to successfully get Mini-Me to change sides when Scott Evil takes his place next to Dr. Evil. He has a large black mole on his face that neither Austin nor Dr. Evil can resist pointing out whenever they see him.

Nigel Powers

Nigel Powers is a Master Spy and Austin and Dr. Evil's father. When he took his family on a vacation and stopped to find a restroom, their car exploded, and Nigel returns to see that his wife is dead and that Austin survived, but is very frightened. He assumes "Dougie " is dead, and continues to raise Austin.
He and his son are very much alike: they both enjoy a jet-setting, playboy lifestyle, and both are incomparable ladies' men. Their relationship is nevertheless strained, as Nigel was absent for much of Austin's childhood, and seems uninterested in having anything more than a casual friendship with his son. During Austin's knighthood ceremony, Nigel did not show up to be there for him, and Austin is later seen singing "Daddy Wasn't There" with his band, Ming Tea. He later reveals that he feels neglected by Nigel, who often gives him minimal respect. However, they manage to make up by the end of the film.
Nigel is also extremely prejudiced against Dutch people, but hypocritically claims that he does not tolerate anyone who cannot stand the cultures of other people. He shared the same feelings with the Belgians after they made his son, Dougie, Evil, while pointing out that they share a border with the Dutch.

Mrs. Kensington

  • Portrayed by: Mimi Rogers
  • Appears in: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • Based on: Emma Peel
Marie Kensington is Austin's original partner back in the year of 1960s, and Vanessa's mother. She had originally tried to help Austin defeat Dr. Evil until he escaped, but the duo unfortunately failed. Having retired years after, her daughter works alongside Austin after he is unfrozen many years later, and she makes a brief appearance while on the phone with her daughter. Like Miss Moneypenny, she vaguely admits to having an attraction to Austin despite being married, but never follows through with it. She does not appear again in the series.