Famke Janssen - Biography

Last Editor: hitomss				Famke Janssen Biography -   Name : Famke Janssen Date of Birth : 5 November 1965 Place of Birth : Amsterdam, Holland Sign : Scorpio Height : 5' 11'' Hair : Brown Eye : Hazel Education : Attended University of Amsterdam and Columbia University Occupation : Actress, Model Speak : English, French, German and Dutch Spouse : Todd Williams Sisters : Natalya and Lucy Fan Mail : Famke Janssen 345 N. Maple Drive No. 397 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA

Famke Janssen Trivia -

Her two sisters are blonde and blue-eyed, while she is the only brunette. Was cast as Serleena in Men in Black II (2002) but had to drop out due to a death in the family. Lara Flynn Boyle was cast in her place. Speaks Dutch, German, English, and French. Offered the lead female role in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), but turned it down. Sisters Antoinette Beumer and Marjolein Beumer are a director and actress respectively. Wears size 11 shoes. Because of their large size, her shoes had to be especially made for her for the film GoldenEye (1995). In Love & Sex (2000), Jon Favreau's character jokes about how big her character's feet were. Measurements: 36-24-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). Provides the Dutch-language narration for the Studio Tram Tour at Disney parks. While appearing on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) to promote her role of the sex-crazed assassin in the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995), Famke gave Conan a first hand experience of her character's signature moves by performing them on him using the top of his desk. When she asked him if he would like the demonstration, Conan responded with "This is what we in the industry call a 'no-brainer'." Has a Boston Terrier named Licorice. Ranked #69 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World." [2002] Her sister was visiting South-East Asia during the Tsunami on December 26th, 2004, and had to flee the water to save her life. Originally, Famke Janssen cast for the "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) series after her work on the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) episode "The Perfect Mate" and was to reprise her role as Kamala. However, she wanted to leave herself open for feature film work and turned the role down. Jadzia Dax's role was created to take the place of this character, performed by actress Terry Farrell. Ex-Sister-in-law of Director Joram Lürsen. Did all her own pool shots in Turn the River (2007). Used to eat almonds and dried cranberries every day while filming X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Her favorite movies of her career are Love & Sex (2000) and Turn the River (2007). Turn the River (2007) was written for her by her The Treatment (2006) co-star Chris Eigeman. Her favorite horror movie is The Shining (1980). Is a fan of Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. She is against typecasting. Is a Vegetarian. Lives in New York City. She's the Dutch-language narrator for the studio tram tour at Disneyland and Disney World.

Famke Janssen Detailed Biography -

One of Hollywood's newest leading ladies, Famke Janssen refuses to fill a stereotype. Initially known as the lasciviously lethal assassin, Xenia Onatopp, in the James Bond megahit, GoldenEye, Janssen has since taken on many exciting roles in both studio and independent features. She was seen in Rounders starring opposite Matt Damon, John Turturro and John Malkovich, and in Woody Allen's Celebrity with Winona Ryder, Kenneth Branagh and Leonardo DiCaprio. Janssen played a lower-class Irish-American Bostonian in Ted Demme's Monument Avenue, an intense independent drama about Boston gang life that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, co-starring with Denis Leary, Colm Meany, Martin Sheen and Billy Crudup. In addition, Janssen was in The Faculty, directed by Robert Rodriquez. Last Fall, Janssen was seen in the box office hit The House on Haunted Hill, where she starred opposite Geoffrey Rush and Taye Diggs.Janssen's next release is the summer blockbuster X-Men in the role of Jean Grey -- a superhero with telekinetic and telepathic powers. Upcoming, she will have a starring role in Circus opposite John Hannah and in the romantic comedy Love & Sex, opposite Jon Favreau. Love & Sex premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, with great acclaim going to Janssen's performance in a star-making turn. She will also appear with Favreau in the mobster movie Made, with Vince Vaughn, Sean ''Puffy'' Combs, Vincent Pastore and Jonathan Silverman. Janssen played a kleptomaniac heroine opposite Treat Williams in Deep Rising. She also played Kenneth Branagh's character's wife in Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, a John Grisham original screenplay, along with Robert Downey Jr. and Daryl Hannah. Before that she was seen in John Irvin's City of Industry. Janssen made her feature film debut in Fathers and Sons, opposite Jeff Goldblum and Samuel L. Jackson. She also starred with Scott Bakula in Clive Barker's supernatural thriller Lord of Illusions for MGM/UA. Born in Holland, Janssen moved to the United States where she has made her home for the last 12 years.She majored in writing and literature at Columbia University and studied stage craft with Harold Guskin.