Birth Name : Famke Beumer Janssen
Date of Birth : 5 November 1964, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Height : 6' (1.83 m)
Famous as : Actress
Janssen was born on November 5, 1964 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."
Her first film was Fathers & Sons (1992). Later, she became James Bond's enemy in GoldenEye (1995) opposite Pierce Brosnan. Famke received strong critical acclaim for her performance as the femme fatale Xenia Onatopp; she was the first (and easily the most famous) Bond girl of the 1990s. Her career has bloomed since then with her starring in such films as House on Haunted Hill (1999), a reoccurring role on FX's "Nip/Tuck" (2003) and the blockbuster trilogy X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).
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