Famke Janssen (born 1964 in Amstelveen,) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model known for playing Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995), Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2014).
Famke Janssen Age
She was born in they year 1964 in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
Education
Janssen studied economics at the University of Amsterdam for a year after graduating from high school, which she later described as “the stupidest choice I ever had.”
She studied creative writing and literature at Columbia University’s School of General Studies in the early 1990s.
Famke Janssen Husband
Janssen married Kip Williams, the son of architect Tod Williams, as a writer and director in 1995. In the year 2000, they divorced. She’s claimed that she doesn’t want to start a family.
Career
Janssen relocated to the United States in 1984 to pursue a career as a fashion model. She worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Chanel, and Victoria’s Secret after signing with Elite Model Management.
Janssen had guest roles on several television series after retiring from modeling in the early 1990s, including a starring role as empathic metamorph Kamala in the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Perfect Mate,” opposite Patrick Stewart, with whom she later starred in the X-Men film series. Janssen was given the role of Jadzia Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine the same year, but she declined to pursue film jobs.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $20 million which she has earned as an actress.
