Famke Janssen is a Dutch actress, director, and former fashion model born in 1965 in the Netherlands. She is best known for her roles as Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men films, and Dr. Ava Moore in Nip/Tuck. After beginning her career as a model, she began acting in television and films in the 1990s. Her breakthrough role came in 1995 as the villainous Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, Pierce Brosnan's first James Bond film. She is also well known for playing the telekinetic Jean Grey in the X-Men films from 2000-2006. Janssen has had success in both film

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2.  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

3. 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

4. Carrer
• 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.

5. 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

6. X-Man
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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

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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.

8. 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

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