She is best-known for playing the villainess Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series. According to MTV, Janssen "mastered the art of the beautiful but deadly villainess.
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She also learned German, but has not kept up with it.She has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer.
Famke Beumer Janssen was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Her first name means little girl in West Frisian, the native language of the Dutch province Friesland.Besides her native Dutch, Janssen speaks English and French.