Name : Famke
Janssen
Profession : Actress, Model
Date Of Birth : January 1st, 1964
Place Of Birth : Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Nationality : Dutch
Education : Majored in Writing and Literature in 1988-1992 from
Columbia University in New York Majored in Economics (University
of Amsterdam) Took acting classes with Harold Guskin
Relationship : Ben Affleck (Actor - Dated in 2001)
Height : 5' 11"
Fan Mail : Peter Fraser & Dunlop
Drury House
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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.
