Karen Russell
Born: 1962-04-12 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Karen Russell was a buxom, shapely, and voluptuous brunette actress and dancer who popped up with pleasing regularity in a handful of entertainingly trashy low-budget straight-to-video exploitation pictures made throughout the 1980's and 1990's. Karen made a memorable film debut as nasty street gang moll Chula in the brutal urban action opus "Tenement." She was quite funny and appealing as the ditsy Shawnee in the crudely amusing "Vice Academy." Russell's other noteworthy parts include sweet, but troubled Mafia princess Amy in the gloriously outrageous "Murder Weapon," motorcycle mama Candy in "Easy Wheels," naive hooker Fran in the hugely enjoyable "The Banker," cop Francesco Quinn's bitter estranged ex-wife Isabella in "Murder Blues," and lusty groupie Michelle in "Shock 'Em Dead." Moreover, Karen appeared in small roles as a dancer in the mainstream features "Dick Tracy," "Havana," "Mobsters," and "Bugsy." After calling it a day as an actress in the mid-1990's, Russell went on to become a yoga teacher and founder of her own business Yoga Groove based in North Hollywood, California.
Filmography
2022
- The Devil You Know as Announcer (voice)
1997
- Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas as Self - Showgirl
1994
1991
- Mobsters as Showgirl
- Lethal Games as Coco
- Dead Certain as Isabella
- Shock 'Em Dead as Michelle
- Bugsy as Dancer
- Shock Cinema: Volume Four as Herself / Actress
1990
- Wilding as Cathy
- Mob Boss as Mary
- Dick Tracy as Dancer
- The Girl I Want as Lisa
1989
- Hell High as Teen Girl
- The Banker as Fran
- Blood Nasty as Mona
- Murder Weapon as Amy
- Dr. Alien as Coed #2
- American Rampage as Hooker #1
- Easy Wheels as Candy
- Vice Academy as Shawnee
1988
- Hellbent as Topless Woman
- Phoenix the Warrior as Mohawk
- Memorial Valley Massacre as Emily (as Dusty Woods)
1986
- Modern Girls as Music Video Dancer
1985
- Tenement as Chula