actual-lifestyles 'Q' is a woman, British secret agent chief famous

The inventor at the back of James Bond's resourceful gadgets, codenamed "Q" in the undercover agent movies, exists in truth and is virtually a woman, the pinnacle of britain's MI6 espionage company has said.

"The actual-existence Q is asking forward to assembly you, and i am pleased to record that the real-lifestyles Q is a female," Alex more youthful said at a women's technology awards ceremony this week in London.

Q, the top of devices at overseas intelligence provider MI6, has continually been played by using a man inside the Bond series, although the inventor's boss, "M", turned into played via Judi Dench from 1995 to 2015.

more youthful, known as "C", additionally found out that the devices utilized by his operatives had been a lot greater state-of-the-art than the ones dreamt up via Q.

"The gadgets that we rent—or operational technology as we greater nicely call it—possibly defy the imagination of secret agent writers," he stated.

"era now could be on the middle of what we do in a way that it wasn't before."

younger stated that Bond's popularity changed into each an advantage and a trouble within the actual world of worldwide espionage, and that he desired to dispel some myths that the suave agent 007 had imposed on MI6.

"it is super in a few approaches because it manner that each one of our opponents think there may be an MI6 officer behind every bush and that we're 10,000 times larger than we certainly are," he said.

"however there is a trouble because it ends in a stereotype that is of a selected type or a particular form of character as a way to be part of MI6—whether or not they are simply posh or going to Oxford or anything it's miles."

"we will attain into every network in Britain and make sure that we get the human beings that are the fine regardless of their historical past," he introduced.