La Femme Nikita was a great television series based on a couple of movies, one by the same name, but both with the same basic premise. In the series, a young transient female is wrongly blamed for the death of a policeman and jailed. All this in a plot to recruit her against her will to become a spy in a super secret agency dedicated to foiling terrorists and other baddies before they can culminate their plans and generally run amok spreading evil and chaos in the world.
Nikita, played by Australian actress, Peta Wilson.
Our heroine, Nikita!
After being trained to be the ultimate spy/killing machine, Nikita balks against authority (which wants success by any means) and begins to refuse her orders, rebelling as her own sense of morality changes her philosophy toward the Agency. In the end through much strife, she changes the system bringing others with her.
La Femme Nikita movie poster. The original was a French movie made in 1990 or 1991. There is also an American version, "Point Of No Return" (1993), with Bridget Fonda as Nikita.
Peta Wilson was also in an action hero movie, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (2003), in which she played Mina Harker, a vampire. She also played an informative flight attendant, Bobbie Faye, in the movie, "Superman Returns" (2006).
