Coordinates | 12°58′0″N77°34′0″N |
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birth name | Famke Beumer Janssen |
birth date | November 05, 1964 |
birth place | Amstelveen, Netherlands |
occupation | Actress |
years active | 1992–present |
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weight | |
spouse | Tod Williams (1995–2000; divorced) |
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Famke Beumer Janssen (; ; born November 5, 1964) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. Janssen is also a UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity.
She is best-known for playing the villainess Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series. According to MTV, Janssen "mastered the art of the beautiful but deadly villainess."
Before going to the United States, Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, which she later called "the stupidest idea I ever had." Janssen moved to the U.S. in 1984 and began her professional career as a fashion model. She signed with Elite Model Management and worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and Victoria's Secret. While with the agency, her European measurements were listed as 92–61–92 and 36 dress size. Janssen is noted for being taller than average at and her looks have been compared to Hedy Lamarr and 1940s films stars. After retiring from modeling in the early 1990s, she enrolled at Columbia University to study creative writing and literature. She also took up acting. Several years later Janssen moved to Los Angeles to establish her acting career.
Janssen's first film role was with Jeff Goldblum in the 1992 film Fathers & Sons. In 1995, she appeared in the first Pierce Brosnan James Bond film, GoldenEye, as femme fatale Xenia Onatopp. In an attempt to fight against typecasting after her role in the film, Janssen began seeking out more intriguing support roles, appearing in Woody Allen's Celebrity, Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, John Irvin's City of Industry and Ted Demme's Monument Ave. Denis Leary, her co-star in Monument Ave., was impressed by how easily she blended in, initially not recognizing her as she was already in character.
Janssen played superheroine Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. She won a Saturn Award for her role in X-Men: The Last Stand. She also starred in the movies Lord of Illusions, The Faculty as Miss Elizabeth Burke, House on Haunted Hill, I Spy, Rounders, Deep Rising, Hide and Seek, Taken and Turn the River, for which she was awarded the Special Jury Best Actress Award at the 2007 Hamptons International Film Festival.
In addition, Janssen had a prominent role in the second season of the popular TV show, Nip/Tuck, as the seductive and manipulative life coach, Ava Moore. She reprised her role in the final two episodes of the series. She has continued to branch out into television, appearing in TV pilots for NBC and Showtime, 2007's cop drama Winters and 2009's The Farm, a pilot for a potential spinoff of The L Word set in a women's prison. Both were rejected by their respective networks. Janssen also provides the Dutch-language narration for the Studio Tram Tour at all Disney parks.
In July 2010, filming began on Janssen's directorial debut Bringing Up Bobby. Janssen also wrote the screenplay to the film, which stars Milla Jovovich, Bill Pullman and Marcia Cross.
Janssen was married to writer and director Tod Culpan Williams, son of architect Tod Williams, from 1995 to 2000.
Alongside her dog (a brindle Boston Terrier named Licorice), she appeared in a 2007 PETA campaign to raise awareness for animal rights. The campaign used the slogan "Be an Angel for Animals."
! Year | ! Title | ! Role |
1992 | Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV series) | Kamala |
1992 | Kyle Christian | |
1994 | (TV series) | Cleo |
1994 | Diane Adamson | |
1994 | Model by Day (TV movie) | Lady X |
1994 | Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes | Dr. Sara Lee Jaffee |
1995 | GoldenEye | Xenia Onatopp |
1995 | Lord of Illusions | Dorothea Swann |
1996 | Dead Girl | Treasure |
1997 | Rachel Montana | |
1998 | Monument Ave. | Katy |
1998 | Leeanne Magruder | |
1998 | Deep Rising | Trillian St. James |
1998 | RPM | Claudia Haggs |
1998 | Petra | |
1998 | Bonnie | |
1998 | Fiona | |
1998 | Miss Elizabeth Burke | |
1999 | Evelyn Stockard-Price | |
2000 | Love & Sex | Kate Welles |
2000 | Lily Garfield | |
2000 | ||
2000 | Ally McBeal (TV series) | Jamie |
2001 | Jessica | |
2001 | Don't Say a Word | Aggie Conrad |
2002 | Special Agent Rachel Wright | |
2003 | ||
2004 | Nip/Tuck (TV series) | Ava Moore |
2004 | Judy Arnolds | |
2005 | Dr. Katherine Carson | |
2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Jean Grey in other media#Film |
2006 | Allegra Marshall | |
2007 | Gretchen Reigert | |
2007 | [[Turn the River | Kailey Sullivan |
2007 | Winters (TV pilot) | Christie Winters |
2008 | Kristen Squires | |
2008 | Lenore (Lenny) | |
2008 | 100 Feet | Marnie Watson |
2008 | Puppy Love (short film) | Maya |
2009 | (TV pilot) | Valentina Galindo |
2010 | Nip/Tuck (TV series) | Ava Moore |
2010 | Jennifer Johnson | |
2010 | Down the Shore | Mary |
2011 | (Director) | |
2011 | Untitled Taken sequel | Lenny |
2012 | Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters | Claudia, Queen of the Witches |
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