Nikita is an American action thriller drama television series that aired on The CW from September 9, 2010, to December 27, 2013, in the United States. The series is an adaptation of Luc Besson's French film La Femme Nikita, the second such adaptation after the 1997 TV series La Femme Nikita.
The cast of the final season of Nikita; from left to right: Noah Bean, Lyndsy Fonseca, Aaron Stanford, Maggie Q, Melinda Clarke, and Shane West.
On why he cast Q, Silverstein said "it had to be someone who was beautiful, who could fight, who you could believe holding a gun and who you believed was smart".
Lyndsy Fonseca, Maggie Q, and Craig Silverstein at the San Diego Comic-Con, July 2010
La Femme Nikita, also called Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering policemen during an armed pharmacy robbery. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, where she struggles to balance her work with her personal life. She shows talent at this and her career progresses until a mission in an embassy goes awry.
French theatrical release poster
Anne Parillaud stars as Nikita, a young female assassin
