Vanessa Kensington
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| Austin Powers character |
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| Vanessa Kensington | |
| Nickname | Miss 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 is a character in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and, briefly, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. She was played by Elizabeth Hurley.
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[edit] Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Vanessa Kensington was the daughter of Mrs. Kensington, Austin's partner from the 1960's. Born on June 10, 1970, she was among the secret agents that welcomed the thawed Austin Powers to the 1990s.[1] She was initially disgusted by Austin's politically incorrect, womanizing attitude, 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 in their honeymoon suite.
[edit] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
In the second Austin Powers film, 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-destruction at the beginning and Austin's apparently genuine but very, very short grieving period are satires of how the women in James Bond movies are inexplicably not in the sequels to the previous films and how they are never mentioned again. 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.
[edit] References
- ^ Halberstam, Judith (2001). "OH BEHAVE!: Austin Powers and the Drag Kings". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies: 425–452. Duke University Press.
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