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Rene Marie Russo is an American actor, model, and television and film actor. Born on February 17, 1954, in Burbank, California, she began her work period in 1972. She is a citizen of the United States and resides in Brentwood. Russo speaks, writes, and signs in English.
She is a member of the Democratic Party (United States) and has one child. Her spouse is Dan Gilroy. Russo has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
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Person · Open Library
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Film & TV
Acting · Burbank, California, USA
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…
Known for
- Velvet Buzzsaw — Rhodora Haze2019
- Avengers: Endgame — Frigga2019
- Just Getting Started — Suzie2017
- The Intern — Fiona Farwell2015
- Frank and Cindy — Cindy Brown2015
- Nightcrawler — Nina Romina2014
- Thor: The Dark World — Frigga2013
- Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon' — Self2012
- Thor — Frigga2011
- Two for the Money — Toni Morrow2005
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1969-08-31
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 14,631x
- Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
· 2010 · cited 12,984x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,202x
- Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers
· 2001 · cited 8,388x
- AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting
· 1995 · cited 8,340x
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Quotes
- “I was really intimidated, but then the acting kicks in. We have a similar fire, so he doesn't intimidate me in that way; I can get really angry, I can get in your face too.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marie
- Family name
- Russo
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Burbank
- Spouse
- Dan Gilroy
- Occupation
- film producer
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Rene Russo 1996.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Residence
- Brentwood
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- date of birth
- 1954-02-17
- Commons category
- Rene Russo
- medical condition
- bipolar disorder
- birth name
- Rene Marie Russo
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- name in native language
- Rene Russo
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Rene Marie Russo (born February 17, 1954) is an American actress and 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 Marvel Cinematic Universe 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).
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