Frau Greta Farbissina is a fictional character played by Mindy Sterling in the Austin Powers film series.

She has a heavy German accent and is well known for a running gag in which she shouts her orders needlessly loud and screeching, often startling Dr.

For her performances, Sterling was nominated for Favorite Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the BMI Film & TV Awards.

[3] 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.

[citation needed] Her surname derives from the Yiddish word פאַרביסן farbissen (verbissen in German), meaning "embittered"; a farbissiner is an angry, bitter, vocal (male) person, while farbissina is the corresponding female form.

In Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Doctor Evil Story, a half-hour-long preview special of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Dr.

[5] When the first Austin Powers movie made its Network television premiere on TBS Superstation in June 2000, Sterling appeared in character as Frau during the bumpers going into and leading out of commercial breaks where she told trivia about the movie and also presented many deleted scenes from the film.

Evil also kiss while he is in prison; although the two enjoy it (despite her having been established as a lesbian in the previous movie), the purpose was to transfer a key to Dr.