I tried to identify which agency they worked with and/or their role in that organization, what movie or TV series they were in, what year(s) it showed, which actress played the part, and who created or wrote the story.
Note: some are fully operational field officers, while others are newly recruited "agents" (such as June Havens and Helen Tasker). In some cases there have been more than one rendition of the story, such as Nikita (which had at least four, two films and two TV series) and Emma Peal. In one case, the same agent was played by two different actresses in the same film (The Debt).
1.
Evelyn Salt (CIA/Russian
FSB sleeper, Salt, 2010 film, actress:
Angelina Jolie, by Kurt Wimmer).
2.
Kissy Suzuki
(Japanese Secret Service, working for its chief, Tiger Tanaka, You Only Live Twice, 1967 film, actress:
Mie Hama; Suzuki is the mother of James Suzuki, son of James Bond, next seen in
Blast From the Past, 1996 short story
by Benson); Kissy was one of the few female heroine agents and the first Asian
in the Bond series, the next being Wai Lin (China) thirty years later.
3.
Wai Lin (People’s
External Security Force of China, Colonel, Tomorrow
Never Dies, 1997 film, actress: Michelle Yeoh, by Bruce Feirstein, based on
Ian Fleming, 20th Bond film, 40th anniversary of the
franchise).
4.
Giacinta “Jinx”
Johnson (NSA, Die Another Day, 2002
film, actress: Halle Barry, from Raymond Benson novel, based on Ian Fleming);
“According to an ITV news poll, Jinx has been voted the fourth toughest girl on
screen of all time” (Wikipedia quote); Jinx was also the first black Bond Girl
hero or villain, in more than 17 years (the last being a villainess May Day in A View to a Kill in 1985).
5.
June Havens (CIA asset,
Knight and Day, 2010 film, actress: Cameron
Diaz, based on a spec script by Patrick O'Neill).
6.
Victoria “RED”
(CIA, RED, 2010 film, actress: Dame
Helen Mirren, DBE).
7.
Rachel Singer
(Mossad, The Debt, 2011 film,
actresses: Jessica Chastain and Dame Helen Mirren, DBE, written by Matthew
Vaughn, Jane Goldman, and Peter Straughan).
8a.
Nikita (the
Centre, a French agency of the DGSE, Nikita,
1990 French film, actress: Anne Parillaud, written/directed by Luc Besson):
“Row 8, Plot 30.”
8b.
Nina (aka: Maggie
Hayward, unknown US
agency, Point of No Return, film, actress:
Bridget Fonda, based on Luc Besson film): “Row 48, Plot 12.”
8c.
Josephine (US agency
known as Section One—an elite, top-secret counter-terrorism organization, La Femme Nikita, 1997-‘01 series, actress: Peta Wilson, based on Luc Besson);
was “was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two
seasons” (Wikipedia).
8d.
Nikita (US agency
known as Division, Nikita, actress: Maggie
Q., 2010+ series, based on Luc Besson’s original film).
10.
Annie Walker (Domestic
Protection Division, DPD, a branch of the CIA, Covert Affairs, 2010+ series, actress: Piper Perabo).
11.
Jane Smith (unknown
US
agency, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, film,
Angelina Jolie)
Mallory Kane (CIA, Haywire,
film, actress: Gina Carano).
12.
Elise Clifton-Ward
(Scotland Yard, aka London Metropolitan Police, The Tourist, 2010 film, remake of the 2005 French action film
Anthony Zimmer, actress: Angelina Jolie).
13.
Helen Tasker (aka,
“Doris,” Omega Sector, US, headed by Spencer Trilby, True Lies, 1994 film, a remake of a1991 French film La Totale!;
actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, written by: unknown. )"The film was nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and Curtis won a Golden Globe for
her comedic portrayal of Helen Tasker" (Wikipedia).
14a.
Mrs. Emma Peal (agency:
unnamed branch of British intelligence, The
Avengers, actress: Diana Rigg, British spy drama series, 1961-1969, total
of 161 episodes in six seasons, created by Sydney Newman. “The show
singlehandedly started the Spy Catsuit and Action Girl tropes” (tvtropes.org). The series “initially focused on Dr. David
Keel and his assistant John Steed,” but “He was teamed with a variety of
partners, including Dr. David Keel (1961), Venus Smith (1962-1963), Dr. Martin
King (1962–1963), Cathy Gale (1962–1964), Emma Peel (1965–1968), Tara King
(1968–1969), Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney (1969), Purdey, and Mike Gambit (both
1976–1977)” (Wikipedia). His three
female assistants included: Mrs. Emma Peel, Honor Blackman (played by Cathy
Gale) and Linda Thorson (played by Tara King). The series showed in more than
90 countries.
14b.
Mrs. Emma Peal (no
agency, The Avengers, 1998 film,
actress: Uma Thurman (with Ralph Fiennes).
15.
Agent 99 (Control, US
counter-espionage agency in Washington
DC, Get Smart, actress: Barbara Feldon (with Don Adams as Agent 86),
created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry
16.
Natasha Romanov
(aka: Black Widow, SHIELD headed by Nick Fury, The Avengers, film, actress: )
17.
Sydney Bristow (CIA,
Alias, series from 2001-2006,
actress: Jennifer Gardner). “Alias
was in the American Film Institute’s top ten list for television programs in
2003” (Wikipedia).
18.
Jane Carter (IMF,
Mission Impossible 4, 2011 film, actress: Paula Maxine Patton, written by Andre
Nemec and Josh Appelbaum).
19.
Samantha Caine (aka:
Charlene Elizabeth "Charly" Baltimore, CIA, Long Kiss Goodnight, 1996 film, actress: Geena Davis with Samuel
Jackson, written by screenwriter Shane Black).
20.
Mallory Kane
(CIA, Haywire, film, actress: Gina Carano, writer: ).
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