Which film gave Beyoncé her first major acting role as Foxxy Cleopatra?

Austin Powers in Goldmember gave Beyoncé her first major acting role as Foxxy Cleopatra.

The 2002 comedy Austin Powers in Goldmember was directed by Jay Roach and starred Mike Myers as the title spy and several other characters. Beyoncé played Foxxy Cleopatra, an undercover agent and Austin Powers’s ally. The character is presented as a glamorous 1970s-inspired detective and singer, reflecting the film’s parody of blaxploitation and spy-movie conventions.

The role was Beyoncé’s first major feature-film performance. She also contributed to the soundtrack with “Work It Out,” a solo song released around the film. That song gave audiences an early preview of her identity outside Destiny’s Child.

Beyoncé later appeared in films including The Fighting Temptations, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Records, and Obsessed. Dreamgirls is sometimes identified as her acting breakthrough because it earned major attention and centered on a music-industry story, but Foxxy Cleopatra came earlier, in Austin Powers in Goldmember.