Rene Marie Russo was born on February 17,1954 and is an American actress and model.
33 Facts About Rene Russo
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Rene Russo began her career as a fashion model in the 1970s, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
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Rene Russo made her film debut in the 1989 comedy Major League, and rose to international prominence in a number of thrillers and action films throughout the 1990s, including Lethal Weapon 3, In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, Get Shorty, Ransom, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Thomas Crown Affair.
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Rene Russo returned to the screen as Frigga, the mother of the titular hero, in the superhero film Thor, a role she reprised in Thor: The Dark World and Avengers: Endgame.
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In 2014, Rene Russo starred in the acclaimed crime thriller Nightcrawler, for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Rene Russo has appeared in The Intern, Just Getting Started, and Velvet Buzzsaw.
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Rene Russo's father was of Italian descent, while her mother had Italian, German, and English ancestry.
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Rene Russo grew up with her mother and her sister, Toni, and attended Burroughs High School, where her classmates included director Ron Howard.
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Rene Russo was plagued with scoliosis and had to wear a full-torso brace.
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Rene Russo's height earned her the nickname "Jolly Green Giant" from her classmates.
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Rene Russo began taking a variety of part-time jobs to help her family, including working in an eyeglass factory and as a movie theater cashier.
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Rene Russo eventually got scouted for modelling and went to New York City, which she described as a "scary place compared to where I grew up".
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Rene Russo became one of the top models of the 1970s and early 1980s, appearing on magazine covers for Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Cosmopolitan, as well as advertisements for perfume and cosmetics.
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Rene Russo did a few more commercials and then turned her back on modeling for a period of time.
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Rene Russo studied theater and acting, and began appearing in theater roles at small theaters in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California.
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Rene Russo made her debut in a television series in 1987, with a supporting role in the short-lived ABC production Sable, based on the comic book, Jon Sable: Freelance by Mike Grell.
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Rene Russo made her feature film debut as the girlfriend of a former baseball star in Major League, a comedy written and directed by David S Ward.
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In 1990, Rene Russo appeared in the fantasy comedy film Mr Destiny, with Jim Belushi, playing the wife in what was an alternate reality of an ordinary guy's life.
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In 1992, Rene Russo achieved breakout success with her role as internal affairs detective Lorna Cole, opposite Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, in the action film Lethal Weapon 3.
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Rene Russo starred as a B movie actress, opposite John Travolta, in the crime comedy Get Shorty, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.
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In 1996, Rene Russo played a clinical psychologist and the love interest of a former golf prodigy with little ambition in the romantic comedy Tin Cup, with Kevin Costner, and reunited with Mel Gibson to play his wife in the crime thriller Ransom, directed by Ron Howard.
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In 1997, Rene Russo portrayed exotic animal owner Gertrude Lintz in the little-seen comedy Buddy, and in 1998, reprised her role in Lethal Weapon 4, the final film in the series, which made US$285.4 million.
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In 2000, Rene Russo obtained the role of villain Natasha Fatale, opposite Robert De Niro and Piper Perabo, in the adventure comedy The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, directed by Des McAnuff and based on the television cartoon of the same name by Jay Ward.
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Rene Russo reunited with De Niro to play the producer of a reality police show in the comedy Showtime, starring Eddie Murphy.
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Rene Russo starred in and produced the film Two for the Money, with Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey, playing the wife of a sports gambling agent.
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In 2010, Rene Russo returned to the screen in the superhero film Thor, released in 2011, after being persuaded by director Kenneth Branagh in December 2009, who asked her to portray Frigga, the mother of the titular hero.
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Rene Russo received more screen time in Thor: The Dark World.
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Rene Russo credited those films, which made more than US$1 billion combined, with introducing her to a new generation of filmgoers.
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In 2014, Rene Russo appeared as a morning news director, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, in the crime thriller Nightcrawler, written and directed by her husband Dan Gilroy.
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Rene Russo starred with Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones in another comedy, Just Getting Started, as the regional director of the luxury resort Villa Capri in Palm Springs, California.
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In Velvet Buzzsaw, Rene Russo worked again with Jake Gyllenhaal and Dan Gilroy, playing a tough art gallery owner haunted by the mysterious nature of a series of paintings by an unknown artist.
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Rene Russo briefly reprised her role of Frigga in Avengers: Endgame.
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Rene Russo revealed during a 2014 taping of The Queen Latifah Show that she has bipolar disorder.