The best Rebecca Romijn movies and TV shows feature an impressive list of genre films that make her one of the most recognizable faces in entertainment. Romijn got her start as a fashion model in Paris and the United States, which led to her earning the role of Mystique in the first X-Men movie. She was impressive with this debut major film role, which allowed her to start picking up more work in both movies and television shows as she quickly became a star.

Since then, she has appeared in the movies before moving on to thrillers and horror movies and later voice roles in the DCAU. Romijn also found her way to television, picking up her first main role in the short-lived comedy Pepper Dennis before getting her biggest break in the comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She has since become a perennial favorite, thanks to roles in The Librarians and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and she continues to find fan-favorite roles over two decades since her debut.

10 X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Mystique

The third X-Men movie X-Men: The Last Stand is widely considered one of the worst movies in the franchise's history. The biggest complaints were that the movie was trying to do too much, bringing in both the mutant cure and the Dark Phoenix storyline and trying to do it all in one film. However, with all the complaints and bad reviews, there were some things that worked well in the movie, with Rebecca Romijn's role as Mystique a prime example.

The look on Romijn's face sold it all and made it one of the best moments for the character.

Romijn had starred as Mystique since the first X-Men, and she was easily the right-hand of Magneto in all three movies. That made the moment where she was shot with a dart that had the mutant cure in it so tragic for the character. The second she lost her mutant powers and reverted into a human, Magneto rejected her despite all she had done for him. The look on Romijn's face sold it all and made it one of the best moments for the character in any of the original trilogy of movies.

9 Satanic Panic (2019)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Danica Ross

In 2019, Rebecca Romijn signed on for the horror movie Satanic Panic. Novelist Grady Hendrix wrote the script based on his own story, and Fangoria produced the horror film. Satanic Panic was a VOD release that saw Hayley Griffith star as Samantha 'Sam' Craft, a sexually inexperienced young woman who works as a pizza delivery driver who is kidnapped by a cult that wants to use her womb to summon the Knights Templar deity Baphomet. However, some would-be-rapists have other ideas.

The movie has a slightly positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, sitting at 63%. Rebecca Romijn stars as Danica Ross and is one of the most recognizable names in the cast, alongside Jerry O'Connell and Jordan Ladd. Unlike many major stars who pop up in VOD horror movies, Romijn has a big role in this movie as the leader of the satanic coven. According to Daily Beast critic Nick Schager, "Romijn elevates much of this ludicrous material through sheer force of personality."

8 Femme Fatale (2002)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Laure Ash/Lily Watts

After breaking out in the first X-Men movie, Rebecca Romijn got a chance to take her own lead in a thriller. The film was Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale, and Romijn starred as a thief named Laure Ash, who is part of a team planning a diamond heist at the Cannes Film Festival. However, the heist ends with Laure betraying her partners and escaping Paris with the diamond. When a woman named Lily dies by suicide, Laure takes her identity and leaves for the United States.

Seven years later, she returns to Paris with her new husband, an American ambassador, and when a paparazzo named Nicolas Bardo takes her photo, the people she betrayed recognize her and come after her. Romijn co-stars with Antonio Banderas as Bardo, whom Lily/Laure uses to try to find a way out of trouble once again. Femme Fatale received poor reviews from critics thanks to the ridiculed twist ending, although it has since become a cult classic for many thriller fans.

7 Eastwick (2009-2010)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Roxie Torcoletti

Most of Rebecca Romijn's best roles have come on television, including the one-season run of the fantasy comedy-drama Eastwick. As the title suggests, the TV show is based on the classic horror movie The Witches of Eastwick. This version sees the three witches played by Jaime Ray Newman, Lindsay Price, and Rebecca Romijn, while Paul Gross takes on the role of the devil himself, Darryl Van Horne. The story is the same, with three women wishing for something new, leading Van Horne into their lives.

Romijn plays Roxanne Torcoletti, the free-spirited sculptor and widowed mother of one. She is also an outcast to the people of Eastwick, who feel she is responsible for her husband's death. She can also hear and see dead people, hear people's thoughts, and see the future. Her character is the equivalent of the one that Cher played in the 1987 film adaptation. The series lasted for one season before ABC canceled it. Despite its cancelation, it earned a People's Choice Award nomination for Favorite New TV Drama.

6 The Punisher (2004)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Joan

X-Men wasn't the only superhero franchise that Rebecca Romijn starred in over her career. In 2004, she was also part of the cast for Thomas Jane's The Punisher. The film followed two Punisher Marvel storylines, The Punisher Year One and Welcome Back, Frank, both by seminal Punisher comic book author Garth Ennis (Preacher). Those comics had the Punisher gaining revenge for his family's deaths while making new connections in the apartment building in which he lived.

These fellow outcasts include Joan (Romijn), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Spacker Dave (Ben Foster). These three end up as allies to Frank Castle (he doesn't become the Punisher until the film's ending). Romijn was fantastic in her role as Joan, a quiet woman who escaped from an abusive relationship. Despite her lack of powers and skills, she stands up to fight to protect Frank and proves to be a loyal ally in The Punisher, which remains highly underrated to this day as a comic book movie.

5 The Librarians (2014-2018)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Eve Baird

In 2014, Rebecca Romijn ed the cast of The Librarians, a spin-off television series based on The Librarian film franchise. Noah Wyle was back from the movies as Flynn Carsen, who served as Librarian for the last ten years. While he is not a main cast member here, he does help organize a new team of Librarians to continue his work. The team's job, just as with Flybnb, was to protect the world from a magical and fantasy-like hidden secret reality.

This new team included characters played by Rebecca Romijn, John Harlan Kim, Cassandra Cillian, and Jacob Stone. Romijn plays Colonel Eve Baird, a member of the NATO Anti-Terrorist Unit who is supposed to be the next Guardian while also protecting Flynn. She also becomes a romantic interest for Flynn, but the show ensures that she is much more than that, and she carries her own along with the rest of the cast. The series lasted for four seasons and 42 episodes.

4 X-Men (2000)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Mystique

Rebecca Romijn's first-ever major movie role came in the 2000 Fox Marvel movie, X-Men. While the MCU ended up becoming the more respected comic book movie franchise among fans, the original X-Men films were the big reason that the superhero craze started, with the first two entries in the franchise considered the best superhero movies Marvel had ever made to that point. For Rebecca Romijn, she was one of the main villains in the first movie, as well as the original trilogy.

Romijn earned a nomination for Best ing Actress at the Saturn Awards for her performance.

Romijn starred as Mystique, who later became a major hero in the later prequel movies. However, in this first trilogy, she was a villain in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants led by Magneto. She was a mutant who could change her form to look like anyone, but as herself, she was a blue-skinned woman who often played psychological games as much as physical ones. Romijn earned a nomination for Best ing Actress at the Saturn Awards for her performance.

3 Ugly Betty (2006-2008)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Alexis Meade

Rebecca Romijn's first major television role came when she ed the cast of Ugly Betty in 2006. While she was only on the show for the first two seasons in a main role and the third as recurring, she was one of the most important characters on the show and one that broke ground on network television at the time. That is because Romijn played Alexis, a transgender woman in the series. While this is ultimately an example of how Ugly Betty has aged poorly, since the show cast Romijn, a cis actress, instead of a transgender actor, the storylines were well done.

There were a lot of deadnaming and transphobic moments toward Alexis, but they were made by characters who were not always the best of people and were demeaning to everyone. However, Betty made it a point to educate herself on what being a transwoman meant, and she was able to help understand her better. This took the problematic casting and made it not only a positive experience but also an important one for television at the time. Romijn was great in the role and played the character with great nuance.

2 Star Trek: Strange New World (2022-Present)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Number One

While the Fox X-Men franchise was very important in the realm of superhero genre films, it was not the biggest franchise that Rebecca Romijn ever appeared in. Instead, it was her role in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that trumped that earlier franchise. Not only did Romijn take on a role in this modern-era Star Trek series, but she also helped elevate it into what might be the best series in the franchise since Star Trek: The Next Generation decades earlier.

The series stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike (the Enterprise captain before Kirk), Ethan Peck as Spock, and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. They were all characters who appeared in The Original Series, and all three actors redefined the characters masterfully. This series follows the crew of the Enterprise as they explore worlds a decade before The Original Series. Romijn received great reviews for her role, which helped the new series become a critical and fan-beloved addition to the franchise.

1 X2 (2003)

Rebecca Romijn Plays Mystique

While Rebecca Romijn might have delivered her best role as Mystique in the third X-Men movie, and the first one made her a star, the second entry remains the best of the original trilogy in almost every way. This film sees a paramilitary unit led by a man named William Stryker attack Professor Xavier's mansion and abduct several young mutants to experiment on and torture. It is up to the X-Men to save the children and discover what Wolverine has to do with their attackers.

While the main battle was against Stryker and his military forces, the X-Men still had to deal with Mystique and Magneto again. Rebecca Romijn seems to have found her groove as the villain in this movie, as she has one of the better scenes when she approaches Wolverine to toy with him after the initial attack. This also allows Mystique to have her first heroic moments as she helps the X-Men stop Stryker and free the mutants. X2 received a Hugo Award nomination.