Celebrity Biographies
rene russo
Of humble origin, she began her career as a model. But when he had the opportunity to consolidate himself in the cinema, I don’t doubt it for a second. And although she has several supporting roles, for a time she was a great choice as a leading actress. “Lethal Weapon 3”, “Outbreak” and, especially, “The Thomas Crown Secret” are some examples of this.
Years go by and Hollywood doesn’t usually treat its older stars very well. The roles do not rain for actresses of a certain age, and they are aware of it. An example of this is Russo’s career, which has not ended up being exactly upward. Once an attractive and in-demand leading lady in both comedy and action films, she is now a grown woman, wrinkles included, searching and finding what she can.
Rene Marie Russo was born in Burbank, California, in 1954. Of Sicilian and Italian roots, and the daughter of a worker and waitress and a sculptor and mechanic, who left the family when Rene was only two years old, she grew up with her sister and her mother. She was a classmate of Ron Howard at John Burrouhs High School. She dropped out of her studies due to the financial needs of her family. Before finding fame, she worked at various jobs, including a movie cashier. Who was going to tell her that in the end it would be her face that would be projected on the big screen!
In 1972 she was discovered at a Rolling Stones concert by a famous star recruiter and manager. She was signed as a model and began posing soon after, even appearing on the cover of Vogue magazine. During the 1970s she was very successful. She later began to study acting and appeared in various theater productions in Los Angeles. She made her television debut in 1987 with a brief appearance on the series Saber . Two years later her time came for her in the cinema, thanks to the film A Woman in the Garter .
In 1991, he accompanied Michael Keaton in A Good Cop . A year later, in Lethal Weapon 3 , she played one of the most popular characters in her filmography: detective Lorna Cole, a strong-willed woman with whom the main character, Mel Gibson , falls in love . She would repeat the role some time later, in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998). She had a supporting role in the solid thriller In the Line of Fire (1993). She was the female lead in a hilarious American comedy, How to Get Hollywood (1995), which featured a great cast headed by John Travolta and Danny DeVito .. That same year she got another important role thanks to Outbreak , a thriller that did very well. The film narrates how the arrival of a monkey infected with a deadly virus endangers all the inhabitants of California.
He returned to coincide with Mel Gibson in Rescue (1996), an interesting thriller directed by Ron Howard . Also that year she romanced Kevin Costner in Tin Cup , a failed romantic film set in the world of golf. In 1999, one of the great roles of her career came into her hands: playing the beautiful investigator Catherine Banning, rival of a famous multi-millionaire thief, played by Pierce Brosnan . The film is titled The Thomas Crown Secret . Both actors form a couple with a lot of chemistry, a worthy successor to the original duo: Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway were the stars ofThe Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
In 2002, he had a role on Showtime , a “buddy movie” starring Robert de Niro and Eddie Murphy . In 2005 she premiered a drama, Betting on the Limit ; and a comedy, Mine, Yours and Ours , a family film where she accompanied Dennis Quaid . Russo retired for a long season from the seventh art. She returned six years later to intervene in Thor (2011) as queen of Asgard and mother of the superhero.
Her latest works have been in Nightcrawler (2014), an interesting film where the actress got into the shoes of an ambitious news director. It is directed by Dan Gilroy , an up-and-coming filmmaker and Rene’s husband since 1992. She also had a brief role in The Intern (2015).