Famke Janssen, as she transitioned from model to actress, gave one of her first-ever performances in Star Trek: The Next Generation. She played Kamala, the empathic metamorph, opposite Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard in the fifth-season episode "The Perfect Mate." These days, she remains an in-demand actress who routinely ping-pongs between blockbusters, including GoldenEye, the X-Men saga (with Patrick Stewart) and the Taken trilogy, and such indie films as Love & Sex, The Wackness, Bringing Up Bobby (which she wrote, produced and directed) and the upcoming drama Jack of the Red Hearts.

