Rosa Klebb

Rosa Klebb
James Bond character
Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb
First appearanceFrom Russia, with Love (1957)
Created byIan Fleming
Portrayed byLotte Lenya
In-universe information
GenderFemale
Affiliation
NationalityRussian
ClassificationVillain

Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character, the main antagonist in the James Bond 1957 novel and 1963 film From Russia with Love, in which she is played by Lotte Lenya. She was a Soviet counter-intelligence operative until being discharged and joining SPECTRE.

Her name is a pun on the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, khleb i rozy (Cyrillic: хлеб и розы), which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used labour union slogan "bread and roses".[1]

  1. ^ Plant, Brendan (1 April 2008). "Top 10 Bond villains". The Times. London, England. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 3 April 2008.