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name: "Rebecca Romijn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rebecca-romijn"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 November 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T10:36:13.324726+00:00"
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# Rebecca Romijn

Actor. Born 6 November 1972 in Berkeley, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 November 1972, Berkeley, California, USA
- **Active:** 2000–2002
- **Also known as:** Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Rebecca Alie Romijn, Rebecca Alie O'Connell
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Romijn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005381/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11008

## Coming up

- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026-12-16), as Raven Darkholme / Mystique

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Femme Fatale*](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md) (74)

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## Fi1m on Rebecca Romijn

> Cast first to be looked at, Rebecca Romijn turned that into a skill: she is best when still, and better in the instant she decides what to do with the man watching her. Give her a page of plot and the light goes out.

Halfway through *Femme Fatale* (2002), Laure Ash undresses for a stranger in a bar while another man, Bardo, watches. Rebecca Romijn plays it without heat, competently, with an eye on the time: a woman doing the femme fatale as a job of work because the job requires it. That one scene is her whole method. She is good at being still, and better at the switch, the small change in the eyes when she has worked out what the person in front of her is for.

She came to acting from modelling, which she took up in 1991, and her first film parts were built around how she looked rather than what she said. Mystique in *X-Men* (2000) is the clearest case: blue paint, prosthetics, almost no lines, a character whose only trait is that she turns into other people. Romijn has said of it, "My call time was at midnight to be ready at 9 am. It was a nine-hour makeup process." She stayed with the part through *X2* (2003) and *X-Men: The Last Stand* (2006), came back for a cameo in 2011, and made three films with Bryan Singer along the way. It is a franchise, not a performance, and it fixed her in most people's minds as a striking figure rather than an actor.

Brian De Palma saw more. He cast her as the lead in *Femme Fatale*, wrote the script himself, and opened on her in a hotel bed watching *Double Indemnity*, Barbara Stanwyck's face laid over her own in the glass of the television. The first twenty minutes are a near-silent heist, and she is the still centre of it. We had not expected to find her that hard to look away from, and we were faintly uncomfortable about it, which is exactly the effect De Palma was after. Olivier Bériot puts her in black leather and a trench coat, the wardrobe of the films Laure has plainly watched. When the script hands her a paragraph of plot to explain, she goes flat. Many found the plot overheated when the film came out; her performance was not the problem.

Nobody has given her a film like it since. There were supporting parts, *The Punisher* (2004) among them, and then television took her in: *Ugly Betty* (2006–2009), *The Librarians* (2014–2018), and Number One in *Star Trek: Discovery* (2019) and *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022 onward). The pattern in these later roles is the competent woman in charge, the investigator or the officer, and it suits her. The switch in the eyes now belongs to someone giving orders instead of taking them. If you want to see what she can do, start with *Femme Fatale*, and watch her rather than listen to her.

## Biography

Rebecca Romijn is an American actress and former model. Born on 6 November 1972 in Berkeley, California, she began her career as a model before transitioning to acting.

She is known for her role as Mystique in the X-Men film series, appearing in *X-Men* (2000), *X2* (2003) and *X-Men: The Last Stand* (2006). In *Femme Fatale* (2002) she played the dual roles of Laure Ash and Lily Watts.

Romijn has also appeared in *The Punisher* (2004) and voiced Lois Lane in several DC animated films. On television she has played Alexis Meade in *Ugly Betty*, Eve Baird in *The Librarians*, and Una Chin-Riley in *Star Trek: Discovery* and *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds*. She is married to actor Jerry O'Connell.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Femme Fatale* (2002), Fi1m 74, as Laure Ash / Lily Watts — [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), Fi1m 84, as Penelope — [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Avengers: Doomsday* (2026), as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
- *Sleep No More* (2022), as Miss Ross
- *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* (2022), series, as Una Chin-Riley
- *Endangered Species* (2021), as Lauren Halsey
- *Justice League Dark: Apokolips War* (2020), as Lois Lane (voice)
- *Satanic Panic* (2019), as Danica Ross
- *The Death and Return of Superman* (2019), as Lois Lane (voice)
- *Batman: Hush* (2019), as Lois Lane (voice)
- *Reign of the Supermen* (2019), as Lois Lane (voice)
- *The Death of Superman* (2019), as Lois Lane (voice)
- *Star Trek: Short Treks* (2018), series, as Number One
- *Carter* (2018), series, as Cassidy Lenox
- *Star Trek: Discovery* (2017), series, as Number One
- *Love Locks* (2017), as Lindsey Wilson
- *Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant* (2015), as Sally the Flightpal
- *The Librarians* (2014), series, as Eve Baird
- *Phantom Halo* (2014), as Ms. Rose
- *King & Maxwell* (2013), series, as Michelle Maxwell
- *The NTSF: SD: SUV: HISS Infomercial* (2012), as Jessie Nichols
- *Burning Love* (2012), series, as Katie
- *Good Deeds* (2012), as Heidi Foster
- *Key & Peele* (2012), series, as Pirate Captain — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/key-and-peele.md)
- *Possessing Piper Rose* (2011), as Joanna Maxwell
- *NTSF:SD:SUV::* (2011), series, as Jessie Nichols
- *X-Men: First Class* (2011), as Mystique - Older (uncredited)
- *The Con Artist* (2010), as Belinda
- *Infomercials* (2009), series, as Jessie Nichols
- *Eastwick* (2009), series, as Roxie Torcoletti
- *Eastwick* (2009), as Roxanne
- *Lake City* (2008), as Jennifer
- *Carpoolers* (2007), series, as Joannifer
- *Chuck* (2007), series, as Robin Cunnings — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/chuck.md)
- *Ugly Betty* (2006), series, as Alexis Meade
- *Man About Town* (2006), as Nina Giamoro
- *X-Men: The Last Stand* (2006), as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
- *Pepper Dennis* (2006), series, as Pepper Dennis · Producer
- *The Alibi* (2006), as Lola Davis
- *Godsend* (2004), as Jessie Duncan
- *The Punisher* (2004), as Joan
- *X2* (2003), as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
- *Evolution X - The Making of X-Men* (2003), Actor
- *S1m0ne* (2002), as Faith
- *Femme Fatale* (2002), as Laure Ash / Lily Watts — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/femme-fatale.md)
- *Rollerball* (2002), as Aurora
- *Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes* (2001), as Mystique (archive footage)
- *Curb Your Enthusiasm* (2000), series, as Penelope — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/curb-your-enthusiasm.md)
- *X-Men* (2000), as Mystique
- *Hefner: Unauthorized* (1999), as Kimberly Hefner
- *Jack & Jill* (1999), series, as Paris Everett
- *Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me* (1999), as Rebecca Romijn
- *Dirty Work* (1998), as Bearded Lady
- *Just Shoot Me!* (1997), series, as Adrienne
- *Friends* (1994), series, as Cheryl — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/friends.md)

## Gallery

- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-e3376108d06f.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Rebecca_Romijn_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Romijn_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Romijn on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010.](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-62206ef135f6.jpg) Rebecca Romijn on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Life_Ball_2010%2C_red_carpet%2C_Rebecca_Romijn_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Rebecca Romijn on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010.](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-47cea940645d.jpg) Rebecca Romijn on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Life_Ball_2010%2C_red_carpet%2C_Rebecca_Romijn_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, Alex Kurtzman, Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con Inter](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-5de761f5beed.jpg) Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin, Alex Kurtzman, Sonequa Martin-Green, David Ajala, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con Inter — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Michelle_Paradise%2C_Heather_Kadin%2C_Alex_Kurtzman%2C_Sonequa_Martin-Green%2C_David_Ajala%2C_Ethan_Peck_%26_Rebecca_Romijn_%2848441858377%29.jpg/1280px-Michelle_Paradise%2C_Heather_Kadin%2C_Alex_Kurtzman%2C_Sonequa_Martin-Green%2C_David_Ajala%2C_Ethan_Peck_%26_Rebecca_Romijn_%2848441858377%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-fe4d8979367d.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-e291899f174f.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-40dcc15851e0.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB
- ![Mystique in X-Men, Number One on Star Trek Discovery, and star of Rollerball, Femme Fatale, Ugly Betty, and The Librarians. NYC Jan. '19. (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-689c7d26273b.jpg) Mystique in X-Men, Number One on Star Trek Discovery, and star of Rollerball, Femme Fatale, Ugly Betty, and The Librarians. NYC Jan. '19. (2019) — https://www.flickr.com/photos/greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Rebecca_Romijn_%2846909545352%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Rebecca_Romijn_%2846909545352%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010.](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-0a5dc1711d6d.jpg) Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell on the red carpet of the Life Ball 2010. — Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Life_Ball_2010%2C_red_carpet%2C_Rebecca_Romijn%2C_Jerry_O%27Connell.jpg/1280px-Life_Ball_2010%2C_red_carpet%2C_Rebecca_Romijn%2C_Jerry_O%27Connell.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-575bacb48676.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-32ef9db0086c.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB
- ![Rebecca Romijn](https://film.one/media/person/391297/gallery-1e13b6ab2791.jpg) Rebecca Romijn — Image via TMDB

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