Welcome back to Character Insight! This week, we review the career and roles of Rebecca Romijn, a recent notable addition to the Star Trek family, as well as her husband Jerry O'Connell, who she is bringing into Star Trek with her.
Unlike other actors and actresses we've done profiles on in this series, Romijn has not yet appeared in multiple different character roles. However, she was a surprising recognizable face added in season 2 of Discovery and she reprised her role as Number One in a great Short Trek for this season entitled Q&A. To celebrate her continued appearance on the show, this segment will look at her background for those unfamiliar.
Romijn was born in 1972 in California, and her father was a former Dutch national who was a custom furniture-maker while her mother taught English. In high school she was known as the jolly blonde giant thanks to her notable 6 foot height and positive demeanor. She went to college to study music but dropped out to pursue a modeling and later acting career.
In her modeling career, she grew to become one of the famous Victoria's Secret models, also making the first appearance in body paint in Sports Illustrated, a precursor to the body-positive ESPN magazine body issues we see two decades later. During this time she was also married to John Stamos of Full House fame, but they divorced a few years later.
The body paint turned out to be a ticket to one of her biggest film roles when she started acting, that being the villain Mystique in various X-Men movies. While a younger version of the character was eventually taken over by Jennifer Lawrence, Romijn became one of the defining faces of that franchise in the 2000's, alongside acting greats Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. In this time she also met and married her current husband, Jerry O'Connell, and had twin daughters with him.
Although Romijn has played in a number of TV and film roles in the last 20 years, more recently she has taken on a regular voice role as Lois Lane in Superman and Batman videos. She then added Star Trek to her resume by playing Number One on Pike's Enterprise in Discovery. As stated earlier, she has shown more than capable of carrying on the intrigue of this character originally portrayed by Majel Barrett.
Interestingly, it appears Romijn has also brought her long-time acting husband into the Trek ranks as well. Jerry O'Connell is perhaps best known for his role in the 1986 film Stand By Me, but he has continued to be a prolific film and TV actor for the last 35 years. His Trek role will be as Commander Ramson in the first episode of Star Trek Lower Decks, which is in pre-production at the time of this segment. Perhaps this will become another power acting couple that will add several memorable characters to Trek, we can only hope.
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