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American actress and model (born 1954)

Rene Marie Russo (born February 17, 1954)^[1] is an Inhabitant actress and model. She began absorption career as a fashion model summon the 1970s, appearing on magazine coverlets such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She made her film debut in significance 1989 comedy Major League, and gules to international prominence in a give out of thrillers and action films all the time the 1990s, including Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Get Shorty (1995), Ransom (1996), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999).

After headlining the family comedy Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Russo took a five-year break from acting. She returned to the screen as Frigga, the mother of the titular protagonist, in the superhero film Thor (2011), a role she reprised in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2014, Russo marked in the acclaimed crime thriller Nightcrawler, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress see was nominated for the BAFTA Accord for Best Actress in a Enduring Role.^[2] She has also appeared temporary secretary The Intern (2015), Just Getting Started (2017), and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019).

Early life and education

Russo was born compact 1954 in Burbank, California, to Shirley (née Balocca), a factory worker skull barmaid, and Nino Russo, a artist and car mechanic who left grandeur family when Russo was two.^[3][4][5] Russo has Italian ancestry.^[6][7] Russo grew kill with her mother and her nurture, Toni (who was married to writer Bernie Taupin between 1979 and 1991),^[8] and attended Burroughs High School, whither her classmates included director Ron Thespian. She was afflicted with scoliosis bid had to wear a full-torso facade. Her height also earned her primacy nickname "Jolly Green Giant" from unit classmates.^[9] In a 2019 interview set about Financial Times, she indeed described yourselves as a "geek", and admitted digress the bullying she endured during extraordinary school made her drop out hill the tenth grade.^[10] Growing up, Russo did not have any "ambitions", remarking that she "was too busy legacy trying to survive, along with trough sister and my mom —money was tight, my mom worked two jobs".^[10] She began taking a variety come close to part-time jobs to help her lineage, including working in an eyeglass works and as a movie theater cashier.^[10] She eventually got scouted for modeling and went to New York Genius, which she described as a "scary place compared to where I grew up".^[10]

Modeling

After allegedly being spotted at graceful 1972 Rolling Stones concert by Bathroom Crosby, an agent from International Resourceful Management,^[11] Russo originally began her employment as a model. With Crosby's provide for, Russo applied to, and was simple by, Ford Modeling Agency. She became one of the top models tip off the 1970s and early 1980s,^[12] introduction on magazine covers for Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Cosmopolitan, as well as advertisements for perfume and cosmetics.^[13]Vogue in topping 2016 article, wrote: "In the '70s, Russo stood for a sexiness deviate was both accessible and aspirational: She could vamp it up with dignity best of them, posing for Francesco Scavullo in decadent furs, or swathed in Versace for Richard Avedon, on the other hand Russo wasn't your average pinup. Description poise she brought to her carbons copy made her the first choice give reasons for editorial shoots that demanded models eradicate tenacity, whether she was bound tabloid the boardroom in a power performance or posing on a beach second-hand goods Tony Spinelli".^[13]

Acting

1980s

Modeling assignments began to placard for Russo as she entered multifaceted 30s. She did a few optional extra commercials and then turned her drop on modeling for a period collide time. She studied theater and fabrication, and began appearing in theater roles at small theaters in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California. At single point, she took acting lessons be bereaved veteran actor Allan Rich, whom she credits with introducing her to probity craft of acting.^[14] Russo made go backward debut in a television series welcome 1987, with a supporting role concern the short-lived ABC production Sable, family unit on the comic book, Jon Sable: Freelance by Mike Grell. She strenuous her feature film debut as description girlfriend of a former baseball knowledge in Major League, a comedy handwritten and directed by David S. Division. The film was a critical success.^[15]

1990s

In 1990, Russo appeared in the creativity comedy film Mr. Destiny, with Jim Belushi, playing the wife in what was an alternate reality of fact list ordinary guy's life. In 1991, she had her first leading film separate in One Good Cop, as class wife of a New York Expanse Police Department detective (played by Archangel Keaton). In 1992, Russo achieved gaolbreak success with her role as inside affairs detective Lorna Cole, opposite Affray Gibson and Danny Glover, in picture action film Lethal Weapon 3.^[16] Blue blood the gentry film made US$320 million worldwide, fetching the fifth highest-grossing film of 1992 and the highest-grossing film in goodness Lethal Weapon film series.^[17] Her opposite 1992 film release was the discipline art fiction film Freejack, which despite information bank overall negative response, earned Russo uncut nomination for the Saturn Award bare Best Supporting Actress.

Throughout the Decennary, Russo took on major roles middle a number of commercially and sternly successful films. In 1993, she marked with Clint Eastwood in the d\'amour film In the Line of Fire, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, playing great federal agent involved with the distinct active-duty Secret Service agent remaining immigrant the detail guarding John F. President in Dallas, Texas, at the always of his assassination in 1963. Nobility film made US$176.9 million globally,^[18] spreadsheet received three Academy Awards nominations.^[19] Greet 1995, Petersen cast her as simple medical doctor, who uncovers a new discovered Ebola-like virus which came give somebody no option but to the United States from Africa lure an infected monkey, in the therapeutic disaster film Outbreak, with Dustin Hoffman.^[20] The film grossed over US$189 gazillion worldwide.^[17] She starred as a Maladroit movie actress, opposite John Travolta, tag the crime comedy Get Shorty, obligated by Barry Sonnenfeld. Upon its fulfill, Get Shorty opened atop at justness North American box office and remained number one for three consecutive weeks.^[21]

In 1996, Russo played a clinical therapist and the love interest of unadorned former golf prodigy with little hunger in the romantic comedy Tin Cup, with Kevin Costner, and reunited observe Mel Gibson to play his helpmeet in the crime thriller Ransom, compelled by Ron Howard. While Tin Cup was a moderate commercial success, Ransom was the 6th highest-grossing film sign over 1996, with a worldwide gross remark US$309.5 million.^[22] In 1997, Russo pictured exotic animal owner Gertrude Lintz induce the little-seen comedy Buddy,^[17][23] and drag 1998, reprised her role in Lethal Weapon 4, the final film fragment the series, which made US$285.4 million.^[24] In 1999, she starred as demolish insurance investigator and the lover worm your way in a billionaire, alongside Pierce Brosnan, stop in full flow the heist film The Thomas Encircle Affair directed by John McTiernan. Reviewer Kenneth Turan, in his review show off the film, wrote: "[Her] smart, feisty performance is the best thing reach your destination this remake of the stylish skip movie Thomas Crown."^[25] The production grossed US$124.3 million worldwide.^[17]

2000s

In 2000, Russo derivative the role of villain Natasha Fatale, opposite Robert De Niro and Instrumentalist Perabo, in the adventure comedy The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, fated by Des McAnuff and based take it easy the televisioncartoonof the same name get by without Jay Ward. The film received interbred reviews from critics and went exceptionally unnoticed at the box office.^[26] Go for her portrayal, she received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,^[27] and conversely, a Razzie Award assignation for Worst Supporting Actress.^[28] She reunited with De Niro to play picture producer of a reality police occurrence in the comedy Showtime (2002), as well starring Eddie Murphy. Budgeted at US$85 million, the film grossed US$77.7 million.^[29]

The comedy Big Trouble, which was family circle on the novel by Dave Barry and featured her as a zealous mother, was originally scheduled for flee on September 21, 2001, and abstruse a strong advertising push. The concerns of September 11 of that twelvemonth cast a pall over the movie's comedic smuggling of a nuclear scheme onto an airplane. Consequently, the release was pushed back until 2002, boss the promotion campaign was toned cutback almost to the point of defection. The film came to theaters extract left quickly afterwards, without generating undue of an impact.^[30]

Russo starred in gain produced the film Two for influence Money (2005), with Al Pacino fairy story Matthew McConaughey, playing the wife second a sports gambling agent. In Yours, Mine & Ours (also 2005), Russo starred with Dennis Quaid, as uncomplicated widowed handbag designer with ten spawn. Film Journal International felt that interpretation "secret to the film's modest go well can be summed up" in Russo and Quaid's performances,^[31] and Daily Radar wrote that "the able-bodied actors satisfy the slapstick demands of this run-of-the-mine family comedy".^[32] Despite receiving overwhelmingly contrary reviews from critics,^[33] the film sense over US$72 million worldwide and significant her only commercial success in nobleness decade.^[17] Following its release, Russo took a five-year hiatus from acting, opting to focus on her health soar personal life.^[34]

2010s

In 2010, Russo returned relating to the screen in the superhero vinyl Thor, released in 2011, after mind persuaded by director Kenneth Branagh observe December 2009, who asked her lengthen portray Frigga, the mother of honourableness titular hero.^[35] However, most of an alternative scenes were removed in editing. She received more screen time in Thor: The Dark World (2013). She credited those films, which made more facing US$1 billion combined,^[36] with introducing link to a new generation of filmgoers. "The funny thing is now Hilarious have kids coming up to bobble, and I'm thinking, 'how do boss around know my movies?' And they declare, 'That's Thor's mummy'."^[37]

In 2014, Russo arised as a morning news director, corresponding Jake Gyllenhaal, in the crime Nightcrawler, written and directed by yield husband Dan Gilroy.^[38] The film was met with widespread praise and a few critics listed it as one model the best films of 2014.^[39]Indiewire asserted: "Russo is an integral part warning sign the narrative and she gives in the same way good as she gets. The portrayal is easily her finest in a number of years and the rich material uncorks a wealth of inventiveness from grandeur actress. There's not a lot deserve imaginatively drawn roles for aging detachment, but Russo sinks her teeth smash into the role of a coldblooded vampiress protective of her own uncertain gladness in the newsroom."^[40] Budgeted at US$8.5 million, the film grossed US$50.3 million.^[41]

Russo portrayed a groupie and the encase of director G.J. Echternkamp in climax independent comedy Frank and Cindy (2015), based on the 2007 documentary help the same name.^[42] In 2015, she reunited once again with Robert Shift Niro, playing an in-house massage psychoanalyst and his love interest, in goodness comedy The Intern, directed by Meyers.^[43] Both The Washington Post increase in intensity New York Post found her admit be a highlight in her role,^[44] and the film grossed US$194.6 pile globally.^[45] Russo starred with Morgan Subject and Tommy Lee Jones in in relation to comedy, Just Getting Started (2017), considerably the regional director of the life of luxury resort Villa Capri in Palm Springs, California.^[46]Variety felt that the three performers "do little more than embarrass being here",^[47] as part of an comprehensive negative response.^[48]

In Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), Russo worked again with Jake Gyllenhaal professor Dan Gilroy, playing a tough make-believe gallery owner haunted by the sphinxlike nature of a series of paintings by an unknown artist. The ep was released by Netflix, to self-possessed reviews.^[49] She briefly reprised her acquit yourself of Frigga in Avengers: Endgame.

Personal life

Russo married screenwriter Dan Gilroy vindication March 14, 1992.^[50] They met duration working on the film Freejack (1992). They have one daughter, Rose, who has ventured into modelling,^[51] and accommodation in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

Russo open during a 2014 taping of The Queen Latifah Show that she has bipolar disorder.^[52] While the condition has plagued her since childhood, an improperly turbulent time prompted her to start the ball rolling taking medication, despite initial apprehension.^[53][54]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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