Tatiana Romanova

Tatiana Alexeievna "Tania" Romanova is a fictional character in the 1957 James Bond novel From Russia, with Love, its 1963 film adaptation and the 2005 video game based on both. She is played by Daniela Bianchi in the film, with her voice dubbed in by Barbara Jefford. Novel and film biography Tatiana Alexeievna Romanova is introduced as a corporal in Soviet Army Intelligence, newly assigned to work in the Soviet consulate in Istanbul as a cipher clerk. Her superiors, in connection with the Soviet agency SMERSH, plan to sow dissension in the intelligence community by murdering and discrediting a significant figure in western intelligence. The target is James Bond, who works for MI6. Her commanding officer is Rosa Klebb. In the novel, Klebb is actually commander in chief of the Otdyel II section of SMERSH. In the screenplay adaptation, Klebb has defected and is secretly an agent for SPECTRE—who manipulates Romanova into believing that she is on an important mission for her country, when she is in fact merely a pawn in the terrorist organisation's latest bid to destroy MI6.