Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen
Famke Beumer Janssen]; born c. 1964) is a Dutch actress, director, screenwriter and former fashion model. She played Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series, Ava Moore on Nip/Tuck and Lenore Mills in Takenand its sequels, Taken 2and Taken 3. 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. Janssen is scheduled to star in an upcoming NBC crime thriller, The...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1964
CityAmstelveen, Netherlands
I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.
I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie will work even better on every level. As an actor I don't think in those terms when I make a movie.
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.
I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.
I personally like to do independent films.