Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen is one of those performers who could have coasted entirely on her looks — she's 6 feet tall, Dutch, and intimidatingly beautiful — but instead she kept making interesting choices. Her Bond villain Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye is genuinely one of the best in the whole franchise: she kills people with her thighs and you buy every second of it. Then she went and spent 14 years as Jean Grey / Phoenix across the X-Men series, bringing real emotional weight to a role that could have been pure spandex spectacle. Columbia University-educated, former Chanel model turned legit actress — she's also done genuinely odd thriller work in films like Don't Say a Word and Taken. The UN named her a Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity in 2008, which makes sense; there's always been something quietly principled about the career she's built.

Name (English)

Famke Janssen

Name (Japanese)

ファムケ・ヤンセン

Reading

ふぁむけ・やんせん

Born

November 5, 1964 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

Origin

Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands

Height

183 cm

Occupation

film actor / model / film director / film producer / screenwriter

University

Columbia University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3

Tags

• North Holland
• film actor
• model
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.