Biography
Rebecca Alie O’Connell (born November 6, 1972) is a talented American actress, businesswoman, and veteran model, known by her stage name Rebecca Romijn.
She is known for her pivotal roles in two Marvel comic books – as Mystique in the X-Men trilogy and as Joan in The Punisher.
Rebecca Romijn’s other major roles include; Eve Baird in the TNT television series The Librarians, voicing Lois Lane in the DC animated series, Universe (starring from The Death of Superman to Justice League Dark: Apokolips War), and being the host of a reality television show called Skin Wars.
American actress
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| Full name: | Rebecca Alie O’Connell |
| Stage name: | Rebecca Romijn |
| Born: | November 6, 1972 (age 51) |
| Place of birth: | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Parents: | Jaap Romijn, Elizabeth Kuizenga |
| The children: | Dolly Rebecca Rose O’Connell, Charlie Tamara Tulip O’Connell |
| Height: | 1.78 minutes |
| Siblings: | Tamara Romijn |
| Boyfriend • Husband: | Jerry O’Connell (married 2007), John Stamos (married 1998–2005) |
| Job: | Actor • Model |
| Net worth: | $20,000,000 |
Early life
Rebecca Romijn’s full name is Rebecca Alie O’Connell when she was born on November 6, 1972.
She was born in the commercial city of Berkeley, California, United States.
She is American by nationality and Catholic by religion.
Rebecca Romijn’s father, Jaap Romijn, is a custom furniture maker, while her mother, Elizabeth Kuizenga, is an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor at a community college and a textbook author.
Her father is Barneveld, from the Netherlands, while her mother is of Dutch and English American descent.
Rebecca Romijn’s mother met her father as a teenager while studying in the Netherlands on a student exchange program.
However, Rebecca Romijn’s parents are now divorced. This happened when she was seven years old. However, they live across the street from each other. She has a younger sister named Tamara Romijn.
Rebecca Romijn’s maternal grandfather was Henry Bernard Kuizenga, who was a Presbyterian minister and seminary professor in his youth.
Education
Rebecca Romijn attended Berkeley High School for her high school diploma and certificate.
She then majored in music at the prestigious University of California, Santa Cruz.
Rebecca Romijn was a student at the university for one year from 1990 to 1991 before dropping out to pursue a modeling career.
Career
Rebecca Romijn began her fashion modeling career while studying music at the prestigious University of California, Santa Cruz. She eventually moved to Paris, France and lived there for over three years.
Among other jobs, Rebecca Romijn officially began her modeling career in 1991. This gave her the rare opportunity to appear on the covers of the American, Spanish, French, Swedish and Russian editions of Elle, Marie Claire; and the Italian, American, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Mexican and Greek editions of Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Allure, GQ, Esquire and Sports Illustrated.
Additionally, she has appeared in advertising campaigns for Christian Dior, Escada, La Perla, Furla, Tommy Hilfiger, Liz Claiborne, Bebe, La Senza, Pantene, and Dillard’s Milk?, Maybelline, and Miller Lite.
Rebecca Romijn was also the host of MTV’s House of Style from 1998 to 2000. She has also appeared on numerous annual lists of the world’s most beautiful women by leading publications such as Maxim, AskMen.com, and FHM.
As an actress, Rebecca Romijn had her first major film role in X-Men in 2000, playing Mystique. She also had a recurring role in the sequel X2 in 2003 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006.
Relatively speaking, she had her first leading role in Brian De Palma’s 2002 film Fatale. Additionally, she has appeared in films such as Rollerball, in The Punisher, as Joan and Godsend.
Similarly, she starred in a short-lived television series called Pepper Dennis on The WB Television Network.
In January 2007, Rebecca Romijn debuted on the ABC series Ugly Betty as a full-time regular cast member. She was also cast as Alexis Meade, the younger sister of main character Daniel Meade.
In April 2008, it was announced that Rebecca Romijn would only appear as a recurring character in Season 3 due to a change in direction by the writing team (involving Rebecca Romijn’s pregnancy, which did not fit into the character’s storyline).
However, in the winter of November 2007, she made a guest appearance on the ABC series Carpoolers, in which she played the ex-wife of Laird’s character, played by her real-life husband Jerry O’Connell.
She made an uncredited cameo appearance in the 2011 action film X-Men: First Class, playing an older version of a character played by Jennifer Lawrence. Rebecca Romijn also appeared as a lab worker named Jessie on Adult Swim’s live-action television show NTSF:SD:SUV::, for two seasons.
From June to September 2013, she played Michelle Maxwell in the TNT drama series King & Maxwell, a former secret agent turned private investigator.
In addition to film projects, Rebecca Romijn has recorded music while performing a cover of Prince’s song “Darling Nikki” from the 2005 Electro Goth Tribute to Prince album. She was also featured on RuPaul’s song Color Me Love from his eighth studio album Realness in 2015.
Returning to acting, she appeared as Eve Baird in the live-action spin-off series The Librarian. She also hosted the GSN original series and reality show Skin Wars and voiced Lois Lane in a DC Universe Animated Original Movie, an adaptation of The Death of Superman.
In 2019, Rebecca Romijn had a supporting role in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, in which she played Number One, first officer of the USS Enterprise.
She is tasked with reprising the role in the Star Trek spin-off series Strange New Worlds, which is currently in post-production and is scheduled to premiere in late 2021.
Social media
Rebecca Romijn has over 220k followers on Instagram. She joined Twitter in late May 2012 and currently has over 102.2k followers.
In contrast, her Facebook page also has more than 82 thousand likes and followers.
- Instagram: @rebeccaromijn
- Twitter: @RebeccaRomijn
- Facebook: Rebecca Romijn
Personal life
Rebecca Romijn stands at an impressive height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 meters or 178 cm). The seasoned actress weighs 57 kg (126 lbs)
She has a slim body with body measurements: 35-25-36 inches. Her bra size is 34B, while his dress size is 4 (US). She has gorgeous curly blonde hair and captivating blue eyes.
Rebecca Romijn began dating actor John Stamos in 1994. They met at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, where she was a model.
Rebecca Romijn and John Stamos then became engaged on Christmas Eve 1997, and they had their wedding ceremony on September 19, 1998 at the famous Beverly Hills Hotel.
However, the couple announced their separation in April 2004 for undisclosed reasons. John Stamos then filed for divorce in August 2004 and after legal proceedings, it was finalized on March 1, 2005.
And in 2004, Rebecca Romijn began dating American actor Jerry O’Connell. The couple got engaged in September 2005 and had a simple wedding at their home in Calabasas, California, on July 14, 2007.
Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell now have two beautiful twin daughters, born on December 28, 2008 and named Dolly Rebecca Rose and Charlie Tamara Tulip. The twins were delivered via a successful cesarean section. The couple named Dolly after Dolly Parton, while Charlie after Jerry’s older brother.
Net worth
Analyzing her net worth, we found that Rebecca Romijn is unlikely to go bankrupt anytime soon. Our findings show that this American actress has an estimated combined net worth of $20 million.
She amassed her fortune from her career as an actress, model and businesswoman.
List of movies played
Rebecca Romijn is a smart actress who has shown her full potential in the film industry. She is still very active and is preparing for more interesting films.
This American actress has played many different roles throughout her career, including superheroes, detectives, daughters, mothers, prostitutes, etc.
TheCityCeleb has a full list of Rebecca Romijn’s movies below.
Movie
- 1998 Dirty Work as a bearded woman
- 1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Made Me Herself
- 2000 X-Men as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique (Credited as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
- 2002 Femme Fatale as Laure Ash / Lily Watts
- Rollerball like Aurora
- Run Ronnie Run like herself
- Simone as Faith
- 2003 X2 as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique (Credited as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
- 2004 Godsend as Jessie Duncan
- The Punisher as Joan
- 2006 The Alibi as Lola
- Man About Town as Nina Giamoro
- X-Men: The Last Stand as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique
- 2008 Lake City as Jennifer
- 2010 The Trickster as Belinda
- 2011 X-Men: First Class as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
- 2012 Good Deeds as Heidi
- Producers as Ulla
- 2014 Phantom Halo as Rose
- 2015 Larry Gaye: The Betrayal Male Flight Attendant as Sally
- 2018 The Death of Superman with the voice of Lois Lane
- Tales of Malia’s Swinging Lantern
- 2019 Reign of the Superman voiced Lois Lane
- Satanic Panic as Danica Ross
- Batman: Silent as Lois Lane’s Voice
- 2020 Justice League Dark: Apokolips War voice Lois Lane
TV show
- 1997 Friends as Cheryl (Episode: “The One with the Dirty Girl”)
- 1999 Hefner: Not Allowed to Be Kimberly Hefner
- 1999–2000 Just Shoot Me! as Adrienne Barker (8 episodes)
- 2000 Jack & Jill as Paris Everett (Episode: “Starstruck”)
- 2002 MADtv as Herself / Host (Episode: “#7.14”)
- 2006 Pepper Dennis as Pepper Dennis
- 2007 Drawn Together as Charlotte (Episode: “Charlotte’s Web of Lies”)
- Joannifer the Advertising Carpooler (Episode: “A Divorce to Remember”)
- 2007–2008 Ugly Betty as Alexis Mead
- 2009 Project Runway as Herself / Guest Judge (Episode: “We Expect Fashion”)
- 2009–2010 Eastwick as Roxie Torcoletti
- 2011 Chuck as Robin Cunnings (Episode: “Chuck Versus the Curse”)
- Cleveland Show as graduate speaker/voice (Episode: “Return to Greatness”)
- Featuring Piper Rose as Joanna Maxwell
- Agent Oso voices Ms. Garcia (Episode: “Lost and Get Found/A View to the Truth”)
- 2011–2012 NTSF:SD:SUV:: Jessie as Nichols (seasons 1–2)
- 2013 Burning Love as Katie (2 episodes)
- King & Maxwell as Michelle Maxwell
- 2014 Professional as Margot
- 2014–2016 Skin Wars as herself / Host / Judge
- 2014–2018 The Librarians as Eve Baird
- 2015 Adventure Time voiced The Empress (2 episodes)
- Game show Gay for Play in 2016 as herself (Episode: “Featuring Rebecca Romijn”)
- 2017 Love Locks as Lindsey Wilson
- 2018 Carter as Cassidy Lenox (Episode: “The Ring”)
- 2019 Star Trek: Discovery is Number One (3 Episodes)
- Star Trek: Short Treks is Number One (2 episodes)
- 2020 Curb Your Enthusiasm as Penelope (Episode: “The Surprise P getarty”)
- 2022 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is number one
