Famke Janssen

Birthday: Nov 5, 1964
Birthplace: Amstelveen, The Netherlands

Bio: A former model, Dutch-born actress Famke Janssen had her screen breakthrough as Xenia Onatopp, James Bond's (literally) man-crushing foe in GoldenEye (1995). After earning fame and a certain dose of coy notoriety for her portrayal of the character, who was endowed with the unique ability to squash potential seducers to death between her thighs, Janssen went on to… More Bio: A former model, Dutch-born actress Famke Janssen had her screen breakthrough as Xenia Onatopp, James Bond's (literally) man-crushing foe in GoldenEye (1995). After earning fame and a certain dose of coy notoriety for her portrayal of the character, who was endowed with the unique ability to squash potential seducers to death between her thighs, Janssen went on to prove that she was more than just the latest variety of Bond babe.Born in Holland on January 1, 1964, Janssen launched her lucrative modeling career at an early age. Moving to New York when she was barely out of her teens, she soon tired of the vacuous nature of modeling and enrolled at Columbia University, where she studied literature and creative writing. Janssen made her screen debut in the 1992 drama Fathers and Sons. Following the success of GoldenEye, the actress began finding steady screen work, appearing in such films as Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man (1998), in which she played Kenneth Branagh's ex-wife; Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998), which cast her as Branagh's girlfriend; and Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, in which Janssen's part was furthered by alien brainwashing, instead of Branagh.After closing the century with another excursion into supernatural grotesqueries in the remake of The House on Haunted Hill (1999), Janssen began the 21st century on a somewhat more heroic note, playing one of the titular group of superheroes in Bryan Singer's adaptation of the popular comic book X-Men. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

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Filmography

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
- Actor
Taken 2 (2012)
- Lenore
Bringing Up Bobby (2011)
- Director
The Chameleon (2010)
- Jennifer Johnson
- 25%
Down the Shore (2010)
- Actor
Itw Pathway (2010)
- Actor
Taken (2008)
- Lenore
- 58%
100 Feet (2008)
- Marnie Watson
The Wackness (2008)
- Mrs. Squires
- 69%
Kiddie Ride (2008)
- Actor
Turn the River (2007)
- Kailey
- 57%
The Ten (2007)
- Gretchen Reigert
- 37%
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
- Jean Grey/Phoenix
- 57%
The Treatment (2006)
- Allegra
- 68%
Hide and Seek: Do You Want to Play? The Making of 'Hide and Seek' (2005)
- Actor
Hide and Seek (2005)
- Katherine
- 13%
Special Thanks to Roy London (2005)
- Actor
Family of the Year (2005)
- Actor
Eulogy (2004)
- Judy
- 32%
Dinner For Five (2004)
- Actor
X2: X-Men United (2003)
- Dr. Jean Grey
- 88%
I Spy (2002)
- Rachel
- 15%
Don't Say a Word (2001)
- Aggie Conrad
- 24%
Made (2001)
- Jessica
- 71%
RPM (2000)
- Actor
Circus (2000)
- Lily Garfield
- 9%
Love & Sex (2000)
- Kate Welles
- 48%
X-Men (2000)
- Jean Grey
- 82%
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
- Evelyn Price
- 27%
The Faculty (1998)
- Miss Elizabeth Burke
- 51%
Celebrity (1998)
- Bonnie
- 41%
Monument Ave. (Snitch) (1998)
- Katy O'Connor
- 90%
Rounders (1998)
- Petra
- 64%
Deep Rising (1998)
- Trillian
- 30%
The Gingerbread Man (1998)
- Leeanne
- 60%
City of Industry (1997)
- Rachel
- 38%
RPM (1997)
- Actor
Dead Girl (1996)
- Actor
GoldenEye (1995)
- Xenia Onatopp
- 80%
Lord of Illusions (1995)
- Dorothea
- 68%
Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes (1994)
- Actor
Model by Day (1994)
- Lady X
Fathers & Sons (1992)
- Kyle Christian
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