Theresa Russell

Theresa Russell (68)

1957-03-20 | San Diego, California, USA

Theresa Russell (born Theresa Lynn Paup; March 20, 1957) is an American actress. Russell made her film debut in The Last Tycoon (1976), followed by a lead role in Straight Time (1978). She was then cast in Nicolas Roeg's controversial thriller Bad Timing (1980), which earned her critical praise. After marrying Roeg in 1982, she appeared in many films directed by him, mainly arthouse and experimental films, including Eureka (1983), Insignificance (1985), and Cold Heaven (1991). Russell starred in Whore and Kafka, both released in 1991. Russell appeared in the box-office hit thriller Wild Things (1998), starred in the critically acclaimed drama The Believer (2001) and, in the later 2000s, appeared in HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005) and had a minor role in Spider-Man 3 (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Theresa Russell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

On Movies

  • A Winter Rose
  • Moving Mountains
  • Liz & Dick
  • The Legends of Nethiah
  • 1 Out of 7
  • Rid of Me
  • Born to Ride
  • Jolene
  • 16 to Life
  • Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
  • Dark World
  • On the Doll
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Blind Injustice
  • Passionada
  • The Box - 2003
  • Love Comes Softly
  • Water Under the Bridge
  • Now & Forever
  • Project Viper
  • The House Next Door
  • Earth vs. the Spider
  • The Believer
  • Luckytown
  • Wild Things
  • Running Woman
  • The Proposition
  • Once You Meet a Stranger
  • Public Enemies
  • Hotel Paradise
  • The Grotesque
  • A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Trade Off
  • The Flight of the Dove
  • Being Human
  • Thicker Than Water
  • Cold Heaven
  • Kafka
  • Whore
  • Impulse
  • Physical Evidence
  • Track 29
  • Aria
  • Black Widow
  • Insignificance
  • The Razor's Edge
  • Eureka
  • Bad Timing
  • Straight Time
  • The Last Tycoon

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