Austin Powers (character) Austin Powers (character) Sir Austin Danger Powers, KBE, is a fictional character from the "Austin Powers" series of films, and is created and portrayed by Mike Myers. He is the protagonist of "" (1997), "The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1999) and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" (2002). He is a womanizing, hard-partying British spy embodying the Swinging London mod culture and hippie culture of the 1960s who, with his nemesis Dr. Evil, was frozen in a cryonics experiment. The series' humor follows his attempts to adjust to the modern world as he continues to try to save it from terrorism. Austin
Austin Powers Powers" came to him one night while driving home from ice hockey practice. Hearing the song "The Look of Love" by Burt Bacharach on his car radio, he wondered "Where have all the swingers gone?" and conceived the character who would become "Austin Powers". In an interview in November 2018 with "Access Hollywood", Myers stated, “After my dad died in 1991, I was taking stock of his influence on me as a person and his influence on me with comedy in general. So Austin Powers was a tribute to my father, who [introduced me to] James Bond, Peter Sellers, The