Actor

Rene Russo

Acting

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Acting credits

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Large and steady acting portfolio.

TMDB popularity

3.0

Moderate attention

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Movies: 30Series: 8Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 14343

IMDb ID: nm0000623

Known for: Acting

Born: February 17, 1954

Age: 72

Place of birth: Burbank, California, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 2019

Years active: 67

Average TMDB rating: 6.26

Wikidata: Q229612

Also known as

Rene Marie Russo

Other jobs

Executive Producer (1)

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Biography

Rene Marie Russo (born February 17, 1954) is an American actress and former model. She began her career as a fashion model in the 1970s, appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She 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 (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 hero, in the superhero film Thor (2011), a role she reprised in Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2014, 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. She has also appeared in The Intern (2015), Just Getting Started (2017), and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019).