Which Beyoncé film character is a secret agent and singer in Austin Powers in Goldmember?

Foxxy Cleopatra is Beyoncé’s secret-agent and singer character in Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Released in 2002, Austin Powers in Goldmember was Beyoncé’s feature-film debut. She plays Foxxy Cleopatra, an undercover agent and musician who becomes Austin Powers’s ally. The character is styled as a flamboyant 1970s blaxploitation heroine and draws on the visual language of that era’s cinema and music.

Foxxy is introduced through the film’s playful combination of spy parody, disco imagery, and exaggerated period fashion. Beyoncé performs “Work It Out,” an original song connected with the film and used as its lead soundtrack single. The song also helped introduce her as a solo performer before Dangerously in Love.

Foxxy Cleopatra is sometimes confused with Deena Jones, Beyoncé’s later role in Dreamgirls. Deena is a fictional 1960s pop singer in a musical drama, while Foxxy is a deliberately comic spy character. Austin Powers in Goldmember also starred Mike Myers, who played Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, and other characters.