Famke Janssen
Biography
Famke Beumer Janssen (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈfɑmkə ˈbøːmər ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 5 November 1964) is a Dutch actress and former model. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014), and Lenore Mills in the Taken film trilogy (2008–2014). In 2008, she was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity by the United Nations. She made her directorial debut with Bringing Up Bobby in 2011. She is also known for her roles in the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove (2013–2015), FX's Nip/Tuck (2003–2010), and ABC's How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Janssen starred in the 2017 NBC crime thriller The Blacklist: Redemption. She starred in the Netflix Dutch crime series Amsterdam Empire (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Famke Janssen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
GoldenEye
as Xenia Onatopp
1995
Rounders
as Petra
1998
Knights of the Zodiac
as Guraad
2023
Monument Ave.
as Katy
1998
Hide and Seek
as Katherine
2005
House on Haunted Hill
as Evelyn Stockard-Price
1999
I Spy
as Rachel
2002
Taken
as Lenore St. John
2008
Don't Say a Word
as Aggie Conrad
2001
Love & Sex
as Kate Welles
2000
Lord of Illusions
as Dorothea Swann
1995
Deep Rising
as Trillian St. James
1998
Celebrity
as Bonnie
1998
The Faculty
as Miss Elizabeth Burke
1998
The Gingerbread Man
as Leeanne Magruder
1998
The Ten
as Gretchen Reigert
2007
100 Feet
as Marnie Watson
2008
The Wackness
as Kristin Squires
2008
Turn the River
as Kailey
2008
X-Men
as Jean Grey
2000
TV Appearances
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Kamala
1987
Ally McBeal
as Jamie
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
The View
as Self
1997
Nip/Tuck
as Ava Moore
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
as Self
2017
Melrose Place
as Diane Adamson
1992
Rove
as Self
1999
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993