Rebecca Romijn-Stamos / Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos was born Nov. 6, 1972 in Berkeley, Calif.. Romijn maiden name inherited from a Dutch father, furniture maker by profession. Mother, also an American Dutch, taught at the University. After finishing school, where classmates called her for the high growth "cornstalk", she entered the music department, University of California at Santa Cruz, then decided to search for happiness and earnings in the modeling business. It soon turned out to be in Paris, where for three years was shot for "Elle", "Marie Claire" and other glamorous magazines. Met at a fashion show with TV presenter John Stamos, in love, went on his return to America, married and gained a second part of the name. Settled in Beverly Hills, tried her hand at leading TV Role "House of Style" on MTV. This was followed by small roles in TV series "Friends" and "Shoot me". Soon she began to perform the role of the third plan for the big screen until Bryan Singer, who had sought an actress for the role of mutant in the mega-project "X-Men" did not understand that he had found his Mystic. Once he got into the hands of number "Sports Illustrated", where Rebecca sat in front of the camera, painted from head to toe. Hearing that it was spent 14 hours, Singer finally confirmed in his choice.