Vanessa Kensington

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Austin Powers character
Elizabeth Hurley as Vanessa Kensington
Vanessa Kensington
Gender	Female
Nationality	England
Role	British agent
Mother	Mrs. Kensington
Relationships	Austin Powers
Filmography
First appearance	Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Last appearance	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Film count	2
Portrayed by	Elizabeth Hurley

Vanessa Kensington was a character in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and, briefly, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She was played by Elizabeth Hurley.

[edit] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Vanessa Kensington is a British secret agent and the daughter of Mrs. Kensington, Austin's partner from the 1960's. She is at first disgusted by Austin's politically incorrect, womanizing sensibilities, but soon warms to his good nature and falls in love with him. At the end of the film, she and Austin marry and are shown (nude, with strategically placed props) in their honeymoon suite.

[edit] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

In the second Austin Powers film, after having sexual intercourse with Austin, Vanessa is quickly revealed as a fembot after inexplicably malfunctioning and self-destructing. Austin briefly grieves, but quickly gets over it, enjoying his freedom and taking up with Felicity Shagwell.

Kensington's self-destruct at the beginning and Austin's very, very brief grieving period (and subsequent acceptance) are satires of how the women in James Bond movies inexplicably are not in the sequel to the previous films and nothing is mentioned of them, as if they have disappeared off the face of the Earth. When Austin reveals to Basil Exposition that Vanessa was really a fembot, Basil replies, "Yes, we knew all along, sadly," and the two quickly drop the subject as if nothing had happened.