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“Wake me up when Starbucks is open,” quips Famke Janssen, who arrives at a photography studio fresh from filming final scenes for “X-Men,” which opened Friday, in which she plays telekinetic superhero Jean Grey. “I wanted to keep Jean Grey’s entire wardrobe. It’s a lot of knee-length skirts and cashmere tops.” The Dutch actress and former model has been at work since 4 a.m., but she shows no signs of surrendering. “I love the whole filmmaking process, and sometimes that means going to work in the middle of the night.”

She starred as Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in 1995’s “GoldenEye” and played the muse in Woody Allen’s 1998 film “Celebrity,” yet “I’ve never been about playing the pretty girl or the sidekick. I’m more concerned about working with great directors,” she says. Add Robert Altman, John Dahl and Ted Demme to the list of heavyweights she’s worked with and you can see why Janssen means action.

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Styled by Raven Kauffman/Profile; hair: Syd Curry for Tigi/Profile; makeup: Troy Jensen for Nars/Luxe; table: antique European oak wine-tasting table, $1,500, at The Chelsea Co. Antiques Centre, Los Angeles.