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Mindy Sterling

  • Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey, USA
  • Birthday: July 11, 1953

Although comedic character actress Mindy Sterling had been working in film and television for nearly two decades, it was not until she portrayed Dr. Evil's shrieking Germanic henchwoman, Frau Farbissina, in Mike Myers' spy spoof "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and its sequels that she achieved a degree of popular recognition. Sterling moved to Los Angeles from Miami in the early 1970s, where she joined the improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings. While there, she not only improved her skills, but cre…more

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  • 2006

    Voiced the female Ox in "Ice Age: The Meltdown"

  • 2002

    Co-starred with Mike Myers in "Austin Powers in Goldmember"

  • 2000

    Appeared in Ron Howard's live action adaptation of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", starring Jim Carrey; Verne Troyer also in the cast

  • 1999

    Featured as Kirstie Alley's sidekick and the coordinator of a local teen beauty pageant in Michael Patrick Jann's satire "Drop Dead Gorgeous"

  • 1999

    Reprised role of Frau Farbissina, with a more central and provocative role, in the summer hit sequel "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me"; initial collaboration with actor Verne Troyer who played Mini-Me

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