Famke

Janssen

Janssen was born 5 Nov ,1965 (age 48) in Amstelveen Netherlands

actress, director, screenwriter, and former fashion model

As cat walk model she has been working for brands such as YSL,Chanel.

Best known for playing Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (Bond Girl), Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men Ava Moore on Nip/Tuck, and Lenore Mills in Taken and its sequel

Bringing up with Bobby was her directorial debut in 2011

Her name means „Girl” in Dutch ,West Frisian dialect

Her looks have been compared to Hedy Lamar, an interwar period actress

Education Following her high school graduation,

Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, but quickly made

a dropout 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,but she didnt graduate In addition to her native Dutch, Janssen speaks English and French. She also learned

German, but has not kept up with it

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• In 1984, Janssen moved to the United States to begin her professional career as a fashion model. She signed with Elite Model Management.

• After retiring from modelling in the early 1990s, Janssen had guest roles on several television series, including a starring role in the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation

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

Goldeneye

In 1995, Janssen appeared in Pierce Brosnan's first James Bond film, GoldenEye, as femme fatale Villain Xenia Onatopp with my compatriot

Izabela ScorupCo as a main Girl Xenia Born in Georgia is a former officer and fighter pilot in the

Soviet Air Force. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she joins the crime syndicate Janus, led by renegade MI6 agent. Early in the movie, Bond gets into a car chase with her, meets her at a casino, and places her under surveillance

. Onatopp has appeared in lists of the top ten Bond Girls, including by Entertainment Weekly[1] and Dose.[ Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the list of the best Bond girl names

X-Man• In 2000, Janssen played superhero Dr. Jean Grey in X-Men Films

Saga which was Based on a comic novel by Maravel Studios • In X-Men, Jean was and is Cyclops's girlfriend though she also

becomes attracted to Wolverine. Her powers are very limited compared to her comic counterpart. She, able to move small objects around. Her greatest feats in this movie were when she stopped Toad mid-leap, and when she held Wolverine steady as Storm used wind to levitate him to the top of the Statue of Liberty

• In 2003/04 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, which earned her Hollywood Life's Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award.She reprised her role in the final two episodes of the series.

• This drama is set in a plastic surgery center, McNamara/Troy, centering around the two doctors who own it.

• The Character played by Janssen was introduced in second season Ava Moore is a attractive woman after sex reassignment surgery,formerly known as Avery Moore.

Private Life

• Janssen was married to writer and director Kip Williams,now she is Divorced

• She is childless • She has two sisters, director Antoinette

Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer

Vocabulary• Interwar Period • Childless• Compatriot• Sex Reassignment Surgery• Cheesy- slang word• Pursuit• Counterpart • Syndicate