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Rene Russo
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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 h…
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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).
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Avengers: Endgame
as Frigga
Velvet Buzzsaw
as Rhodora Haze
Just Getting Started
as Suzie
The Intern
as Fiona Farwell
Frank and Cindy
as Cindy Brown
Nightcrawler
as Nina Romina
Thor: The Dark World
as Frigga
Maximum Impact: The Legacy of 'Lethal Weapon'
as Self
Thor
as Frigga
Yours, Mine & Ours
as Helen North
Two for the Money
as Toni Morrow
Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary
as Self
Big Trouble
as Anna Herk
Showtime
as Chase Renzi
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Natasha
The Thomas Crown Affair
as Catherine Banning
The Free Willy Story - Keiko's Journey Home
as Narrator
Lethal Weapon 4
as Lorna Cole
Buddy
as Trudy Lintz
Ransom
as Katherine Mullen
Tin Cup
as Dr. Molly Griswold
Get Shorty
as Karen Flores
Outbreak
as Robby Keough
Major League II
as Lynn Wells (ucredited)
In the Line of Fire
as Lilly Raines
Lethal Weapon 3
as Lorna Cole
Freejack
as Julie Redlund
One Good Cop
as Rita Lewis
Mr. Destiny
as Cindy Jo
Major League
as Lynn Wells