Austin Powers Cameos: Every Guest Appearance in the Trilogy

The Austin Powers cameos worth listing are the guest roles and special appearances in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), all directed by Jay Roach and led by Mike Myers. The line between a cameo and a supporting part is loose here, because Myers plays several roles himself and the ensemble is large. So, a name counts below when it is a recognizable guest turn or a special end credits appearance.

If you want the regular players, the Austin Powers cast guide has them. If you are still deciding where to begin, the Austin Powers movies in order guide covers the sequence, and the Austin Powers movies hub lists all three films.

Will Ferrell plays Mustafa, and he is credited in both International Man of Mystery (billed ninth) and The Spy Who Shagged Me (billed eighth). He is not in the top billed Goldmember cast. That makes Mustafa a small recurring role that shares the first film with Dr. Evil, his teenage son Scott and Number Two.

If you are watching for familiar faces, Mustafa is the easiest one to catch twice.

Rob Lowe plays Young Number Two in The Spy Who Shagged Me, billed tenth. The role is a younger version of the character Robert Wagner plays as Number Two.

Casting a recognizable actor as the younger edition of an established character is a practical way to make a time travel plot work without recasting the whole ensemble. The series repeats the idea in Goldmember, where Aaron Himelstein plays Young Austin, Josh Zuckerman plays Young Evil and Evan Farmer plays Young Number Two.

Michael Caine plays Nigel Powers, Austin's father, in Austin Powers in Goldmember, billed eighth. Nigel is also a plot engine: he is kidnapped, which sends Austin back to 1975 to search for him, where he meets Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyoncé.

In my opinion this is the biggest guest star turn in the trilogy, and a spy father for a spy parody hero fits the satire neatly. For how the series plays with 007, see the Austin Powers Bond parody guide.

Fred Savage plays Number Three in Goldmember, billed ninth. The name continues the running joke of numbered figures in Dr. Evil's organization, which began with Robert Wagner's Number Two in the first film.

For a viewer rewatching all three films, Number Three is a useful marker that the ensemble has grown since 1997, when Wagner and Seth Green were the main faces on the evil side.

Nobu Matsuhisa is credited as Mr. Roboto in Goldmember, billed twelfth.

The cast list around him also includes Diane Mizota as Fook Mi and Carrie Ann Inaba as Fook Yu, billed tenth and eleventh. If you want to confirm who is who in that part of the film, the credits are the quickest check.

The soundtrack for The Spy Who Shagged Me lists "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna, "Word Up!" by Mel B and "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz among its notable songs. Those are song credits, not confirmed on screen cameos, so they sit here as music guest names. George S. Clinton scored all three films.

For the full track listings and album details, the Austin Powers soundtrack page covers each film.

No confirmed appearance by Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito or Burt Bacharach turned up in any of the three films, even though searches for Austin Powers cameos often name them. None of them is among the top 15 billed cast in any film, and no studio or trade source confirms any of them as a cameo.

The billed cast for each film is the most reliable guide to who appears in it, and the Austin Powers characters guide covers the regular roles.