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Famke Beumer
Janssen (born November 5, 1965 in Amstelveen) is a Dutch
actress and former fashion model. She is best known for
her roles in GoldenEye, Nip/Tuck, and the X-Men film
series.
Biography: Janssen was born in the Netherlands,
the only brunette in a family of blondes. There, besides
her native Dutch, she learned to speak English, German,
and French.
She moved to the United States in 1984 and began her
professional career as a fashion model. She was signed
with Elite Model Management, and worked for Yves Saint
Laurent, Chanel and Victoria's Secret. After studying
writing and literature at Columbia University, she moved
to Los Angeles to establish her acting career. Janssen
currently lives in New York City, in Greenwich Village.
Acting Career: Upon moving to Los Angeles,
Janssen obtained her first parts, appearing in guest
roles on TV series (such as Star Trek: The Next
Generation and Melrose Place). Her first film role was
with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992). Later
she appeared in the first Pierce Brosnan James Bond
film, GoldenEye, as femme fatale Xenia Onatopp. In 1998,
she starred in eight films.
Janssen played superheroine Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in
X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Janssen also
starred in the movies Lord of Illusions, The Faculty,
House on Haunted Hill, I Spy, Rounders, and Deep Rising.
In addition, Janssen had a prominent role in the second
season of the popular TV show Nip/Tuck as seductive and
manipulative life coach Ava Moore.
Janssen has signed on toplining a new police drama for
NBC. The show will be created by David Shore, also the
creater and executive producer of House. The writer of
House - Peter Blake will also help develop the project.
The show will be a light drama with procedural elements
that center on a female police officer (Janssen).
She wore the most luxurious fashions of the 1980s. Her
face is the envy of millions. So when Famke Janssen was
cast as Xenia Onatopp, the new "Bond Girl" of
the 1990s in the James Bond thriller,
"GoldenEye" (1995), it was front-page news in
The Hollywood Reporter. When the movie premiered, she
was interviewed everywhere, and her name was added to
wish lists all over Hollywood.
Janssen was born on November 5, 1965 in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands and began modeling at a young age, becoming
immediately successful in her native Holland. When work
for Chanel brought her to New York City in 1984, she
decided to stay. Still young for a model (not yet 25),
she quit to study creative writing and literature at
Columbia University and enrolled in an acting workshop.
Having appeared in an episode of Fox's campy night-time
soap "Melrose Place” (Fox, 1992-99), Janssen
landed her first significant role as Jeff Goldblum's
romantic interest in "Fathers and Sons"
(1992). She followed up playing a model by day, crime
fighter by night in the aptly-named, but otherwise awful
television movie "Model By Day" (Fox, 1994), a
role she has said she would rather forget. The
multilingual actress co-starred with Scott Bakula in
Clive Barker's "Lord of Illusions" (1995)
before hitting screens in her breakthrough role as the
villainous Russian killer who crushes men to death with
her thighs in "GoldenEye.”
After “GoldenEye,” Janssen was careful not to fall
into the usual trap of so many other
models-turned-actresses and avoided roles that amounted
to nothing more than onscreen eye candy. She opted
instead to tackle a variety of characters that required
her to stretch her acting muscles, not just smile pretty
for the camera. One of the only actresses to escape
Bond-girl oblivion (few of James Bond's female co-stars
have gone on to bigger and better projects), the busy
actress appeared in six releases in 1998, announcing
that she would rather work with quality directors and
actors than star in tent-pole movies. She essayed
characters ranging from a bitter alcoholic in "The
Gingerbread Man" to a Russian-born owner of a
gambling joint in "Rounders" to a tough,
blue-collar Bostonian in "Monument Avenue.” Woody
Allen cast her as a sophisticated book editor in
"Celebrity,” reuniting her with her
"Gingerbread Man" costar Kenneth Branagh,
while Robert Rodriguez tapped her to be a timid high
school teacher in "The Faculty.” Her deft
performances prompted critics and co-stars to marvel at
her chameleonic versatility and uncanny knack for
imitating accents.
Janssen slowed down the following year, appearing only
in the forgettable horror flick "The House on
Haunted Hill.” She returned with gusto in 2000,
earning rave reviews for her performance in the romantic
comedy "Love & Sex,” playing a magazine
journalist tired of writing fluff pieces who starts a
column on love and sex as a means to exorcise her past
relationship demons, especially the breakup with her
neurotic painter boyfriend (Jon Favreau). Janssen next
landed her biggest role to date, playing the conflicted
Jean Grey in Bryan Singer’s excellent adaptation of
the Marvel comic “X-Men” (2000). She returned to
comedy in the Favreau-helmed vehicle, "Made"
(2001), again showing great chemistry with Favreau and a
effective range in an otherwise small role. In the
kidnapping thriller "Don't Say a Word" (2001),
Janssen breathed life into the thankless role of Michael
Douglas' bedridden wife, imbuing the character with a
great sense of vulnerability when their daughter is
abducted.
She switched gears in 2002 for the big screen version of
the 1960s TV hit "I Spy" starring Owen Wilson
and Eddie Murphy—even during the most comedic moments
with those two, Janssen demonstrated an ability to keep
her performance rooted in reality and, after several
turns downplaying her looks, using her considerable sex
appeal to great effect. She returned to the role of Jean
Grey (with red hair like her comic book counterpart) for
the much-anticipated sequel "X2: X-Men United"
(2003), setting in motion events that would make her
character pivotal to a third outing. Her next move was
to the small screen in a recurring role in the 2004
season of FX's hit drama "Nip/Tuck" as the
provocative "life coach" Ava Moore whose
relationship with the McNamara's teen son revealed a
seamier relationship with her own offspring.
After supporting roles in “Eulogy” (2004), a
low-budget comedy about three generations of a
dysfunctional family gathering in Rhode Island to bury
their patriarch, and “Hide & Seek” (2005), a
low-budget horror about a widower (Robert De Niro) who
discovers his daughter’s imaginary friend is really a
malicious and violent reality, Janssen revived Jean Grey
for the third installment of the series, “X-Men: The
Last Stand” (2006), directed by Brett Ratner. This
time, the mutants face a peculiar choice after a cure
for mutations is found: retain their uniqueness and
remain isolated from society or give up their strange
powers and become human.
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