Theresa Russell

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Theresa Russell (2007)

Theresa Russell (* 20th March 1957 in San Diego as Theresa Paup) is an American actress .

biography

Theresa Russell was born in San Diego, the oldest of five children, and raised in Burbank . She played in an amateur drama group in high school and worked as a photo model since she was twelve . She dropped out of school at the age of sixteen and attended Lee Strasberg's drama school for two years . Her film debut in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976) drew the attention of Dustin Hoffman , who cast her for the lead role in his production Hour of Probation . With Black out - Anatomie einer Liebe , she had her final breakthrough as an actress in 1980. In the process she met her future husband with the director Nicolas Roeg . She played other important roles in The Black Widow (1987), Impulse - Driven By Dangerous Emotions (1990), The Whore (1990) and Kafka (1991).

Theresa Russell has two sons. She was married to the director Nicolas Roeg from 1982 , the marriage ended in divorce.

“She sometimes seems like a woman encountered at a Greyhound station and inveigled before the camera - unready, ungiving, suspicious, yet definitely there; more than an actress. "

“Sometimes she looks like a woman you meet at the bus stop, seduced by the camera - unprepared, dismissive, cautious and yet very present; more than an actress. "

- David Thomson

Filmography (selection)

Theresa Russell (1976) in The Last Tycoon

Web links

Commons : Theresa Russell  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ Smith, p. Web links.
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Theresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paup, Theresa (maiden name); Roeg, Theresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California , United States