American model and actress

Rebecca Romijn

Rebecca Alie O'Connell is an American actress and former model. She is known for her role as Mystique in the original trilogy (2000–2006) of the X-Men film series, as Joan from The Punisher (2004), the dual roles of Laure Ash and Lily Watts in Femme Fatale (2002), and Una Chin-Riley on Star Trek: Discovery (2019) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022–present). She has also had a recurring role as Alexis Meade on the ABC television series Ugly Betty. Her other major roles include Eve Baird on the TNT series The Librarians, voicing Lois Lane in the DC Animated Movie Universe, and as the host of the reality competition show Skin Wars.

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1972

November 6

Died

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1970s

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What else happened on this day, through history

447 A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
963 Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is deposed on charges of an armed rebellion against Otto.
1217 The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.
1792 Battle of Jemappes in the French Revolutionary Wars.

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The world in 1972

When Rebecca arrived

april 10 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
april 10 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
april 13 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
april 13 Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Cho Ki-chon 1913–1951 North Korean poet (born 1913) Frank Vandenbroucke 1974–2009 Belgian cyclist (died 2009) John Holland 1988–1447 2nd Duke of Exeter (born 1395) Mike Nichols 1931–2014 German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931) Rebecca Schaeffer 1967–1989 American model and actress (born 1967) Rozz Williams 1963–1998 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1963) Sally Field 1946– American actress Suleiman the Magnificent 1494–1566 Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1566)

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Also born in 1972

Eminem 1972– American rapper, producer, and actor Adam Beach 1972– Canadian actor Archie Panjabi 1972– British actress Billie Joe Armstrong 1972– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer Brian Wood 1972– American writer, illustrator and graphic designer Chilly Gonzales 1972– Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Chris Candido 1972–2005 American wrestler (born 1971) Chris Osgood 1972– Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Christophe Beck 1972– Canadian television and film score composer and conductor

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