24 Facts About Rebecca Romijn

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Rebecca Romijn is known for her role as Mystique in the original trilogy of the X-Men film series, as Joan from The Punisher, the dual roles of Laure Ash and Lily Watts in Femme Fatale, and Una Chin-Riley on Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

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Rebecca Romijn has had a recurring role as Alexis Meade on the television series Ugly Betty.

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Rebecca Romijn's mother, Elizabeth Romijn, is a community college instructor of English as a Second Language and textbook author.

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Rebecca Romijn's father is a native of Barneveld, the Netherlands, while her mother is an American of Dutch and English ancestry.

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Rebecca Romijn's mother met Rebecca's father as a teenager while living in the Netherlands on a student exchange program.

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Rebecca Romijn has appeared on the covers of American, French, Spanish, Russian and Swedish editions of Elle, Marie Claire, American, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, and Mexican editions of Cosmopolitan, Allure, Glamour, GQ, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated.

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Rebecca Romijn has walked for Giorgio Armani, Sonia Rykiel, and Anna Molinari along with the likes of Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Karen Mulder, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Christy Turlington.

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Rebecca Romijn was the host of MTV's House of Style from 1998 to 2000.

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Rebecca Romijn has been featured numerous times in annual lists of the world's most beautiful women by publications such as Maxim, AskMen.

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Rebecca Romijn appeared as a guest in the animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Chinatown".

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In 2000's X-Men, Rebecca Romijn had her first major film role as Mystique; she returned to the role in 2003's sequel X2 and for X-Men: The Last Stand.

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Rebecca Romijn had her first leading role in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale.

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Rebecca Romijn has starred in films such as Rollerball, The Punisher, and Godsend.

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Rebecca Romijn played the leading role in Pepper Dennis, a short-lived TV series on The WB.

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In January 2007, Rebecca Romijn made her first appearance on the ABC series Ugly Betty as a full-time regular cast member.

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Rebecca Romijn played Alexis Meade, a transgender woman and the sister of lead character Daniel Meade.

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In November 2007, Rebecca Romijn made a guest appearance on the ABC series Carpoolers, where she played the ex-wife of the character Laird, played by her real-life husband Jerry O'Connell.

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Rebecca Romijn starred in the ABC series Eastwick, reuniting her with her former Pepper Dennis co-star, Lindsay Price, before ABC canceled the show on November 9,2009.

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Rebecca Romijn appears in an uncredited cameo in the 2011 feature film X-Men: First Class, appearing as an older version of the character played by Jennifer Lawrence.

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Rebecca Romijn was featured on the song "Color Me Love" for RuPaul's eighth studio album Realness in 2015.

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Rebecca Romijn starred as Eve Baird, the guardian of the eponymous group in The Librarians, a direct spin-off of The Librarian film series.

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Rebecca Romijn hosted GSN's original series and reality show Skin Wars.

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Rebecca Romijn reprised the role in the spin-off series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which was released in 2022.

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Rebecca Romijn began dating actor John Stamos in 1994 after they met at a Victoria's Secret fashion show where she was modeling.