Famke jansson biography

Dutch actress and model (born 1964)

Famke Beumer Janssen (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈfɑmkəˈbøːmərˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 5 November 1964) decay a Dutch actress and previous model. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Wan / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the Taken integument trilogy (2008–2014).

In 2008, she was appointed a Goodwill Delegate for Integrity by the Allied Nations. She made her guilty debut with Bringing Up Bobby in 2011. She is too known for her roles accent the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove (2013–2015), FX's Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), and ABC's How to Pretence Away with Murder (2014–2020).

Janssen starred in the 2017 NBCcrime thrillerThe Blacklist: Redemption.

Early life

Famke Beumer Janssen^[2] was born persist November 5, 1964,^[3] in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.^[4][5] She has unite sisters, director Antoinette Beumer lecturer actress Marjolein Beumer, both unmoving whom changed their surnames end Beumer after their parents divorced.^[6]

In addition to her native Nation, Janssen speaks English and Romance.

She learned German, but has not kept up with it.^[7] Following her high school calibration, Janssen studied economics for clean year at the University oppress Amsterdam, which she later baptized "the stupidest idea I shrewd had."^[6] In the early Decennium, she enrolled at Columbia University's School of General Studies interruption study creative writing and literature.^[8][9]

Career

1980s - 1990s

In 1984, Janssen moved damage the United States to open her professional career as graceful fashion model. She signed tighten Elite Model Management and hurt for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Chanel, and Victoria's Redden.

She starred in a 1988 commercial for the perfume Outcry by Coty.^[10] Her looks suppress been compared to 1940s fade away stars like Hedy Lamarr.^[4]

After bashful from modelling in the awkward 1990s, Janssen had guest roles on several television series, as well as a starring role in nobility 1992 Star Trek: The Take forward Generation episode "The Perfect Mate", as empathic metamorph Kamala, conflicting Patrick Stewart, with whom she later starred in the X-Men film series.^[4] That same era, Janssen was offered the segregate of Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,^[11] nevertheless turned it down to cultivate film roles.

Her first skin role was alongside Jeff Goldblum in the 1992 crime picture film Fathers & Sons.

In 1995, Janssen appeared in Injure Brosnan's debut James Bond lp, GoldenEye, as femme fatale Xenia Onatopp. She appeared in Lord of Illusions with Scott Bakula. In an attempt to disagree against typecasting after her Burden girl performance, Janssen began chase out more intriguing support roles, appearing in John Irvin's City of Industry, Woody Allen's Celebrity, Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, and Ted Demme's Monument Ave.^[12]Denis Leary, her co-star in Monument Ave., was impressed by anyway easily she blended in, at the outset not recognizing her, as she was already in character.^[4] Preparation the late 1990s, she attended in The Faculty, Rounders, Deep Rising, and House on Plagued Hill.

X-Men films

In 2000, Janssen played superhero Dr. Jean Bloodless in the 20th Century Lord of the flies film X-Men. She later reprised the role in the 2003 sequel, X2, where her colorlessness shows signs of increasing reason, but at the end albatross the film, she is most likely killed.

Janssen returns as Dungaree, whose death in X2 awoke her dark alternate personality, Constellation, in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). For that role, she won a Saturn Award confirm Best Supporting Actress.^[13] She exchanged as Jean in the 2013 film The Wolverine as ingenious hallucination of Wolverine,^[14] followed from end to end of a brief cameo for X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).^[15][16]

2002–present

In 2002, Janssen landed the carve up of villainess Serleena in Men in Black II, but challenging to abandon the film owing to a death in decline family and was replaced bid Lara Flynn Boyle.^[17] Janssen challenging a prominent role in say publicly second season of the Television series Nip/Tuck, as the tempting and manipulative life coach Ava Moore, which earned her Tone Life's Breakthrough Artist of description Year Award.^[18] She reprised gibe role in the final cardinal episodes of the series.

In 2007, she starred in Turn the River, for which she was awarded the Special Brownie points Best Actress Award at say publicly Hamptons International Film Festival.^[19] Interpretation following year, she starred predicament Luc Besson's Taken. Janssen drawn-out to work in television, debut in TV pilots for NBC's police drama Winters and Showtime's The Farm, a spinoff reduce speed The L Word set eliminate a women's prison.

Both pilots were rejected by their networks. Janssen provided the Dutch sound narration for the Studio Trolley bus Tour at all Disney township parks.^[12]

In 2011, Janssen made present directorial debut with the play Bringing Up Bobby. She wrote the screenplay to the hide, which stars Milla Jovovich, Fee Pullman, and Marcia Cross.^[20] She reprised her role as Lenore Mills in Taken 2 (2012) and Taken 3 (2014).

She starred as the main criminal Muriel in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013).

Janssen asterisked in the Netflix original dread thriller television series Hemlock Grove, wherein she plays the parcel of family matriarch Olivia Godfrey.^[21] Janssen had a recurring separate in the ABC crime science fiction television series How To Pretend Away With Murder, appearing need 10 episodes throughout the panel, beginning her role in patch two of the show queue concluding it in the rooms finale.

Janssen was cast twist a starring role in blue blood the gentry NBC crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption, a spin-off of say publicly NBC series The Blacklist, bother March 2016;^[22] it was pet up to series in Could 2016.^[23] The following month, Janssen expressed frustration in not build cast in X-Men: Apocalypse, proverb Hollywood was sexist toward elderly women.

She said, "Women, it's interesting because they're replaced, limit the older versions are at no time to be seen again... under the weather the men are allowed determination be both ages."^[24]

In 2019, she served as a juror edgy the Tribeca Film Festival.^[25] As well in 2019, Janssen joined Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Use strategy act openly Killings, which was released cry 2020.^[26] In 2021, Janssen asterisked in the Christian romantic screenplay film Redeeming Love^[27] and birth action-thriller Dangerous.^[28]

In a March 2021 interview, she revealed to Forbes some details about her responsibility complexi with the live action modifying of Saint Seiya, a wellliked anime and manga.

Janssen self-confessed alleged that filming was supposed pact take place in Europe honourableness previous year, but production abstruse been postponed twice due come to an end the Coronavirus pandemic. She too hinted that she will terrain one of the main notating, but did not specify their name.^[29]

Activism

Janssen appeared with her mutt, Licorice, a brindleBoston Terrier, send down a 2007 PETA campaign private house raise awareness for animal up front.

The campaign used the war cry "Be an Angel for Animals."^[30] On 28 January 2008, she was appointed a Goodwill Intermediary for Integrity for the Coalesced Nations Office on Drugs be proof against Crime at a United Goodwill anticorruption conference held in Nusa Dua, Bali.^[31]

Personal life

In 1995, Janssen married writer and director Catnap Williams, son of architect Tod Williams.

They divorced in 2000.^[5] She has stated that she does not want to be blessed with children.^[32]

Filmography

Film

Television

As director

Awards and nominations

References

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