Spy Girls - Female Spies

As Nikita Taylor, in La Femme Nikita (1990)

Affiliation(s): DGSE, the French intelligence agency
Specialty: Assassination
First Mission: kill a diplomat in a restaurant

As Nikita in the new Nikita TV series

Specialty: Assassination
Mission: bring down Division, a secret government agency which recruited her




Nikita: Michael...I'm not going to hurt you.
Michael: Really? You know my shoulder's still sore from when you shot me.
Nikita: Then I saved your life.
Michael: And then I saved yours.
Nikita: Great. Codependent relationship.

Also, as Zhen Lei in Mission: Impossible 3

Affiliation(s): IMF (Impossible Missions Force), a fictional espionage agency employed by the USA government.
Specialty: Background Specialist
Mission: rescue an agent who has been captured



Ethan Hunt: Blow the car.
Zhen: Oh, its such a nice car.
Ethan Hunt: And yet, do it.

As Valerie Plame in Fair Game (2010), which is inspired by true events.

Affiliation(s): Counterproliferation Division of the CIA
Specialty: Counterproliferation
Covert operations officer
Mission: investigate suspicions that Saddam Hussein's regime was developing weapons of mass destruction




"One by one, everybody broke - except me. And that made me feel special. You can't break me. I don't have a breaking point."

"I loved my career because I loved my country. I was proud of the serious responsibilities entrusted to me as a CIA covert operations officer."

As Sarah Walker, in Chuck

Affiliation(s): CIA
Specialty: Espionage, Assassination
Mission: protect the computer geek Chuck Bartowski after he accidentally downloads the secret technology known as the Intersect into his head



Chuck: Is that a - real kiss, or a cover kiss? Cause I'm confused right now.
Sarah: It's a "we have a international security emergency. And I need to speak to you privately" kiss.
Chuck: See? I knew I felt something. Close your mouth.

As Nikita, in the La Femme Nikita TV show
Affiliation(s): Section One, a top-secret counter-terrorist organization with no affiliation to any government
Specialty: Assassination



"It's not death you have to be afraid of, that's the easy part. It's life that you have to worry about."

As Louise Desfontaines, trained sniper, member of the group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters in Les femmes de l'ombre

Affiliation(s): British Special Operations Executive (SOE) commando
Mission: Rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day

As Deirdre in Ronin

Affiliation(s): Unknown employer. She is the employer of a group of spies/mercenaries
Mission: retrieve a top-secret briefcase at any cost
Specialty: planning of operations




Deirdre: You're scared!
Sam: Of course I'm scared! You think I'm reluctant because I'm happy?

As Wong Chia Chi, in Lust, Caution

Affiliation(s): Government of the Republic of China
Mission: assassinate the head of secret police department, responsible for capturing and executing resistance agents

As Maggie Hayward, in Point of No Return (remake of Nikita)

Affiliation(s): secret government agency
First Mission: assassinate a target in a restaurant
Specialty: Assassination

As Sydney Bristow in Alias

Affiliation(s): SD-6, CIA, The Covenant, APO
Mission: bring down SD-6

As Sam Hunter, in Hunted



As Lauren Reed, in Alias

Affiliation(s): NSC, The Covenant
First Mission: assassinate a Russian diplomat
Specialty: Espionage, Assassination

As Alex in the new Nikita TV series

Affiliation(s): double agent for Nikita
Mission: bring down the secret government agency Division

As Joan Clarke, a cryptanalyst in The Imitation Game (2014), a film inspired by true events that happened during World War II.

Affiliation(s): Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), MI6
Mission: crack the Enigma code



"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

As Charlotte, in Charlotte Gray

Affiliation(s): SOE (Special Operations Executive), a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom
Mission: liase with the local Resistance group in France




Psychiatrist: Of these three, which in your view is the most important: Faith, hope or love?
Charlotte Gray: Hope.

As Marissa Wiegler, in Hanna (2011)



Affiliation(s): CIA
Mission: kill (or capture) Hanna's father, who knows a secret that can't become public, and capture Hanna

As Marianne Beauséjour in Allied (2016)

Affiliation(s): V Section, French Resistance

As Diane/Lisa in Secret Défense

Affiliation(s): DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6), a counter-terrorism unit
Mission: prevent Islamist terrorists bombing the Paris metro
Specialty: Espionage

As Martha Sullivan in the film A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Affiliation(s): CIA
Mission: capture a potential terrorist

As Rachel Singer in The Debt

Affiliation(s): Mossad
Mission: kidnap a Nazi war criminal in East Berlin and bring him to Israel to stand trial



"God doesn't plant car bombs."

As Bridget von Hammersmark, a famous actress in Inglourious Basterds

Affiliation(s): double agent for the British
Relays information



"I know this is a silly question before I ask it, but can you Americans speak any other language besides English?"

As Jeanne Faussier, resistance fighter in Les femmes de l'ombre

Affiliation(s): British SOE
Specialty: Assassination

As Jordan in Listening (2014)

Affiliation(s): CIA

As Lindsey Farris, in Mission: Impossible 3

Affiliation(s): IMF (Impossible Missions Force)
Mission: surveil a prominent dealer in the international black market
Specialty: Espionage

As Hanna in Hanna (2011)

Affiliation(s): trained by a former CIA agent who betrayed the agency
Specialty: Assassination
Mission: kill Marissa Wiegler

As Evelyn Salt in Salt

Affiliation(s): CIA

As Vesper Lynd, in Casino Royale

Affiliation(s): HM Treasury, Quantum
Mission: watch over the MI6's funds
Specialty: Treasury



Vesper Lynd: [introducing herself to Bond] I'm the money.
James Bond: Every penny of it.

As Agent 99 in Get Smart

Affiliation(s): CONTROL, a fictional American government counter-espionage agency
Mission: trace a recent acquisition of nuclear materials by KAOS, a terrorist organization



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As Major Anya 'Triple X' Amasova, in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Affiliation(s): KGB

As Emma Peel in The Avengers (1961) series

Affiliation(s): British agent

As Katherine, a code operator in a spy broadcast station, in The Numbers Station (2013)

Affiliation(s): CIA

As Nyah Nordoff-Hall, in Mission: Impossible II

Affiliation(s): IMF (Impossible Missions Force)
Specialty: Professional Thieving
Mission: gain information from a former member of the IMF about his plans

As Mallory Kane, in Haywire (2011)

Affiliation(s): a U.S. government security contractor
First Mission: rescue a hostage in Barcelona
Freelance covert operative




"You can tell me right now why you sold me out, or you can tell me when I have my hands around your throat."

As Victoria Phair in Extraction (2015)



Affiliation(s): CIA agent

As Sarah Moss, a former FBI agent, in The East

Affiliation(s): Hiller Brood, a private intelligence firm

Mission: Locate the headquarters of The East (an underground activist group) and feed information about the group to Hiller Brood.

As Claire Stenwick in Duplicity

Affiliation(s): CIA

As Vanessa Kensington, in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

As Aeon, in Aeon Flux

Affiliation(s): Monicans, an underground rebel organization
Mission: kill the government's leader
Specialty: Assassination



"We're meant to die. Its what makes everything about us matter."

As Claire Phelps, in Mission: Impossible

As Ros Myers, in Spooks (MI-5)

Affiliation(s): MI5
Section Chief



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As Jo Portman, in Spooks (MI-5)

Affiliation(s): MI5
Junior Case Officer

As Rachel Gibson in Alias

Affiliation(s): The Shed, APO

As Jill Roberts, in Chuck

Affiliation(s): Fulcrum
Specialty: Evolutionary Biology

As Jane Carter, in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Affiliation(s): IMF

As Annie Walker, in Covert Affairs

Affiliation(s): CIA

As Ruth Evershed, in Spooks (MI-5)

Affiliation(s): MI5
Intelligence Analyst

As Nadia Santos, Sydney's sister, in Alias

Affiliation(s): SIDE (Argentina), APO

As Rita Foster in Cypher (2002)
Affiliation(s): she works for Sebastian Rooks, a deep cover operative

As Gaëlle Lemenech, explosives expert and resistance fighter in Les femmes de l'ombre

Affiliation(s): British SOE
Specialty: Explosives



"Making bombs without blowing them up is frustrating"