Natasha Zarki (Russian: Наташа Зарки) is a fictional KGB assassin and child impersonator who is briefly mentioned during a slide-show of active female assassins in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights. She was portrayed by Nicola Richardson.
Biography[]
After an assassination attempt is made on supposed Soviet defector, Georgi Koskov, James Bond and Q trawl through the British Secret Service's records of female KGB assassins to determine the identity of the mysterious cellist sniper.
One of the records belongs to a a female KGB assassin named Natasha Zarki, a child impersonator who uses her apparent innocence to get close to her targets and kill them with exploding teddy bears.
Behind the Scenes[]
Although this premise may seem implausible, there are a number of documented cases of adults posing as children. One of the most prominent of these was Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian with dwarfism, who was passed off as a child to adopted parents.