Character History Rebecca Fogg Rebecca Fogg is Phileas Fogg's second cousin: a beautiful, athletic, fearless and high-minded woman in her late twenties, she is the first female field agent ever employed by the British Secret Service, a quite extraordinary achievement in the Victorian Era. But Rebecca is an extraordinary person. She hugely enjoys her unique role. How else could a woman of her time to manage to adopt any disguise she chooses; go where no woman (and a few men) have ever gone before; and outwit, outdrink and outfight some of the most unscrupulous villains on the planet? One of Rebecca's feminine qualities is a delight in clothing, and an ingenious approach to design. Many of her designs incorporate special devices to enable her to get out of tight corners... like incandescent hems and acid-impregnated threads that can cut through any lock. In the field, she'll adopt any costume necessary to get the job dome, but when we see her on her home turf she is very different. In the charming manor house made of golden Cotswold stone, which is the family home she shares with Phileas, Rebecca behaves like a true Victorian gentlewoman, inviting the local gentry in for tea, and doing good work among the poor. Rebecca thoroughly enjoys this kind of life and performs the role well, but only because she knows that at any moment the heliograph on the hilltop above the house will start flashing with a message from London, and she'll be hurrying into that high-ceilinged office in Whitehall from where she'll be dispatched across the world to tackle the forces of evil. Rebecca's parents were killed when she was child and she was brought up by Sir Boniface as his ward. She, Phileas and Erasmus were as close as brothers and sister as children. And an unofficial godmother, Queen Victoria took a personal interest in Rebecca's upbringing. She is particularly fond of Sir Boniface's niece and follows the progress of her career. -Talisman Crest/Filmline International Presss Kit