Rosa Klebb

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James Bond character
Rosa Klebb
Gender	Female
Role	Villain
Affiliation	SMERSH (novel) SPECTRE (film)
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Lotte Lenya

Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character from the James Bond novel and film From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version.

Contents 1 Novel biography 2 Film biography 3 Henchmen 4 Trivia

[edit] Novel biography

Colonel Klebb is a high ranking member of the feared Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). Klebb is assigned to spearhead an operation to get revenge on James Bond for his involvment in the deaths of two SMERSH operatives, Le Chiffre and Mr. Big. Teaming with Tov Kronsteen and Red Grant, Klebb sets a trap for Bond, enlisting a cipher clerk, Tatiana Romanova, to pretend to defect, claiming to fall in love with Bond. When Bond takes the bait, Grant will kill him. This plan backfires, however, when Tatiana really does fall in love with Bond. After Grant is killed, Klebb must attend to Bond herself. She tracks him and Tatiana to Paris and poisons him by means of a venom tipped dart hidden in her shoe. Bond survives due to the timely intervention of his friend Rene Mathis, who later also captures Klebb. In the novel Doctor No, M revealed that Klebb died after the events of the previous novel.

[edit] Film biography

Klebb is a former SMERSH agent who has defected to become a member of SPECTRE (Blofeld refers to her as #3). She uses Kronsteen's plans to obtain the Lektor device and kill Bond. She hires Tatiania Romanova to help Bond steal the Lektor, and then sends Red Grant to kill Bond and recover it. When Red Grant dies at the hand of Bond, Blofeld wants to know who is behind the failure. Then, thanks to Morenzy, Kronsteen dies and Klebb makes one last attempt to get Bond and the Lektor. Posing as a maid, she attempts to take the Lektor; when she is caught she points a gun at Bond. Tatiana Romanova then distracts her, causing her to drop the gun, and Bond and Klebb fight. As in the novel, Klebb attempts to kick Bond with the poison tipped shoe, but Bond blocks the attack with a chair. Tatiana then picks up Bond's gun and kills her.

[edit] Henchmen

• Red Grant

[edit] Trivia

Rosa Klebb was the inspiration for the character of Frau Farbissina, of the Austin Powers series of films.

Preceded by Dr. Julius No

Bond Villain 1963

Succeeded by Auric Goldfinger