Rebecca Romijn
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rebecca Alie Romijn was born on November 6, 1972 in Berkeley,
California. Her father was Dutch-born and worked as a custom-furniture
maker. Her mother was American-born, with Dutch and English ancestry,
and was a teacher of English. Rebecca attended Berkeley High School
where her nickname was the "Jolly Blond Giant", then she attended the
University of California at Santa Cruz where she majored in Music, but
left in 1995.
She was a natural for modeling, and has posed for Sports Illustrated, Christian Dior
and Victoria's Secret, to name but a few. Rebecca first met
John Stamos in 1994, at a Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show and had her first date with him at Disneyland. They
married in September 1998, but have since gotten divorced.
Rebecca's favorite foods are fillet mignon, tuna sashimi and
Häagen-Dazs Cappuccino Commotion ice cream. But to keep her weight at a
svelte 130 pounds, she stays fit with a rigorous stretching and
strengthening routine (her firm body tone is evident when compared to
photos of her earlier modeling, where she was very slim but not toned).
Rebecca's most famous movie role, so far, was as the shapeshifting
Mystique in X-Men (2000), based on the
long-running comic book series about teenage mutant superheroes (that
Jack Kirby and
Stan Lee created in 1962). To play
Mystique every day, Rebecca had to start out nude, and then two female
makeup artists would apply blue body paint and other stick-on parts for
8 hours a day. Rebecca told Jay Leno on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
that things like tissue paper would stick to her hips; and, one day,
the long hours of wearing sticky paint makeup made her so upset that
director Bryan Singer told her to have a
glass of white wine and relax. Notwithstanding those technical
difficulties, X-Men (2000) was a box-office
bonanza, and Rebecca's future in films was assured.
California. Her father was Dutch-born and worked as a custom-furniture
maker. Her mother was American-born, with Dutch and English ancestry,
and was a teacher of English. Rebecca attended Berkeley High School
where her nickname was the "Jolly Blond Giant", then she attended the
University of California at Santa Cruz where she majored in Music, but
left in 1995.
She was a natural for modeling, and has posed for Sports Illustrated, Christian Dior
and Victoria's Secret, to name but a few. Rebecca first met
John Stamos in 1994, at a Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show and had her first date with him at Disneyland. They
married in September 1998, but have since gotten divorced.
Rebecca's favorite foods are fillet mignon, tuna sashimi and
Häagen-Dazs Cappuccino Commotion ice cream. But to keep her weight at a
svelte 130 pounds, she stays fit with a rigorous stretching and
strengthening routine (her firm body tone is evident when compared to
photos of her earlier modeling, where she was very slim but not toned).
Rebecca's most famous movie role, so far, was as the shapeshifting
Mystique in X-Men (2000), based on the
long-running comic book series about teenage mutant superheroes (that
Jack Kirby and
Stan Lee created in 1962). To play
Mystique every day, Rebecca had to start out nude, and then two female
makeup artists would apply blue body paint and other stick-on parts for
8 hours a day. Rebecca told Jay Leno on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
that things like tissue paper would stick to her hips; and, one day,
the long hours of wearing sticky paint makeup made her so upset that
director Bryan Singer told her to have a
glass of white wine and relax. Notwithstanding those technical
difficulties, X-Men (2000) was a box-office
bonanza, and Rebecca's future in films was assured.
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