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Famke Janssen Bio
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Famke Beumer Janssen
Date of Birth: November 5, 1964
Horoscope Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Amstelveen, Netherlands
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Famke Beumer Janssen (born November 5, 1964) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. She is best-known for playing the villainess Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series. Janssen was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Her first name, Famke, means “little girl” in West Frisian, the native language of the Dutch province Friesland. She has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer. In addition to her native Dutch, Janssen speaks English, French and some German. Janssen is 5 ft 11 1⁄2 inches.
Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, which she later called “the stupidest idea I ever had.” In the early 1990s, she enrolled at Columbia University to study creative writing and literature. In 1984, Janssen moved to the United States to begin her career as a fashion model. She signed with Elite Model Management and worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, and Victoria’s Secret. She starred in a 1988 commercial for the perfume Exclamation by Coty, Inc.
After retiring from modeling in the early 1990s, Janssen had guest roles on several television shows, including the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Perfect Mate” opposite Patrick Stewart, with whom she later starred with in the X-Men film series. That same year, Janssen was offered the role of Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but turned it down to pursue film roles. Her first film role was alongside Jeff Goldblum in the 1992 film Fathers & Sons. In 1995, Janssen appeared in Pierce Brosnan’s first James Bond film, GoldenEye, as femme fatale Xenia Onatopp, and gained notoriety. In 2000, Janssen played superheroine Dr. Jean Grey/Phoenix in X-Men. She reprised the role in X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, Janssen had a prominent role in the second season of the popular TV series Nip/Tuck, as the seductive and manipulative life coach Ava Moore. -Wikipedia
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