Famke Janssen

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Famke Janssen portrayed Jean Grey in X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand.

Significant rolesEdit

Dorothea Swann in Lord of Illusions (1995)
Xenia Onatopp in 007: GoldenEye (1995)
Leeanne Magruder in The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Bonnie in Celebrity (1998)
Miss Elizabeth Burke in The Faculty (1998)
Evelyn Stockard-Price in House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Kate Welles in Love & Sex (2000)
Jessica in Made (2001)
Aggie Conrad in Don't Say a Word (2001)
Judy Arnolds in Eulogy (2004)
Katherine in Hide and Seek (2005)
Allegra Marshall in The Treatment (2006)
Gretchen Reigert in The Ten (2007)
Jennife Johnson in The Chameleon (2010)

QuotesEdit

"I love the first two X-Mens because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director."
"This is the wonderful thing about Jean Grey or Phoenix. I don't have to be in any decent shape. She can cause mass destruction by doing nothing. By giving you a little wink and..."
"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."
"The director always determines the tone of the set. So 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. So this one was certainly a different experience from Bryan's. I think during the making of X-Men 1 and 2, I feel that we talked a lot more. Before we did the scenes we rehearsed..."
"At the end of X2 there is a Phoenix over the lake and my voice over talking about evolution... so that was definitely the foreshadowing of the Phoenix rising. They could have chosen not to take that path and they could have done a whole different... comics have been around for forty years so there were many storylines to choose from. I'm excited they chose this one."
"I think that Professor X and Magneto were trying to get into her head. To control her. I think the whole struggle in the film for Phoenix and Jean Grey is that she goes between these two elements that she has within her. The powers that are so strong, they overpower her and the old Jean Grey that could control them. I think the majority of her time is spent in conflict in her head. One wins over the other at one moment, she has moments of being more lucid than others. She wouldn't want to be controlled by anybody. I think it's clear she never particularly chose for... because there's a moment for Magneto where she says, "And what do you want?" Basically, are you trying to control me as well? I think it's in that moment at the very end where Wolverine is getting to her that the soldiers come in and start shooting. That triggers a thing in her again and she goes back to the dark side. It is a constant struggle between her normal Jean Grey and the dark Phoenix. I talked to the writers a lot about the ending of the film wanting to make clear that she wasn't taking a side... between Magneto or the X-Men and that it was a constant struggle in her head. If this had been a movie just about the Phoenix we would have had a lot more time to explore the different avenues that you can explore for that. Given that there's so many characters in the X-Men, and we have to do justice to every single one of their characters and storylines, we have to use broader strokes in that case."