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With radiant blue eyes, superb cheekbones and a playful, down-to-earth outlook, Rene Russo has turned a successful modeling career into a likewise flourishing acting career. While still in high school, Russo grabbed the attention of John Crosby, a talent agent, who arranged for her to be hired by modeling agent Nina Blanchard. Russo was an instant smash hit and became one of the top models of the 1970s and early 80s. Russo graced the covers of numerous fashion magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Vanity Fair.

Russo relocated to the Eileen Ford Agency where she worked with top fashion photographers like Richard Avedon and Francesco Scavullo. Rene also was featured notably in a series of print advertisements and television commercials for Revlon.

Rene Russo moved into acting in the mid-1980s when she was cast for the role of Eden, the agent and romantic love interest, on the little seen adventure series "Sable" (1987-88). It marked the first of many "girlfriend" type roles that Rene would go on to play. Russo made her feature debut in David S. Ward's baseball comedy "Major League" (1989) featuring Wesley Snipes, as a librarian hesitant to revive a romance with Tom Berenger. Russo then played the wife of James Belushi in "Mr. Destiny" (1990) with Courtney Cox, and then appeared next to Michael Keaton in "One Good Cop" (1991) featuring a young Benjamin Bratt.

Rene Russo then landed the career making role of Detective Lorna Cole in Richard Donner's "Lethal Weapon 3" (1992). As the serious Internal Affairs officer who glows when she works with Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover), Russo showed not only her acting talents, but her capability as an action hero.

Russo's romantic scenes with Mel Gibson were both funny and sensual. Rene followed with a role as the skilled Secret Service agent and romantic love interest for Clint Eastwood in Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire" (1993) where Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) is a fairly successful agent working for the president, yet the guilt of not being able to save President Kennedy back in the 60's still haunts him.

Rene Russo next starred with Dustin Hoffman as his ex-wife and fellow scientist in the thriller "Outbreak" (1995) with Morgan Freeman and Cuba Gooding Jr., where extreme measures are necessary to contain an epidemic of a deadly airborne virus. Rene sparkled as a B-movie queen in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Get Shorty" (1995) starring John Travolta, where a mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. Rene Russo again played the girlfriend, this time torn between Kevin Costner and Don Johnson, in Ron Shelton's golfing drama "Tin Cup" (1996) about a washed up golf pro working at a driving range who tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his successful rival's girlfriend..

In Ron Howard's "Ransom" (1996), she worked again with Mel Gibson, about when a rich man's son is kidnapped and he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals. Russo finally headlined a film in the biopic "Buddy" (1997), where she played the real-life eccentric millionaire Gertrude Lintz who raised a Gorilla on her estate. While Russo brought a fine performance, the old saying about working with children and animals proved truthful: most of the actors were upstaged by the chimpanzees dressed like humans and the lead gorilla, Gertrude's favorite of her "collection.” Critics hated the movie and audiences stayed away.

Still sexy in her mid-40s, Rene Russo disregarded Hollywood labels by delivering her most skillful performance as an insurance investigator who romances the prime suspect in an art theft in the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999). At first troubled by the required nude scenes and the candid sexuality of the character, the deeply Christian actress reportedly prayed before accepting the role ("I don't know where in the Bible it says 'Don't be naked in motion pictures"). At the director's request, Russo also assumed a more stylish look, cutting her hair and coloring it red as well as wearing a lustrous wardrobe. Her onscreen chemistry with co-star Pierce Brosnan (helped by many hot love scenes and nudity) helped to amaze reviewers and audiences, winning her new fans. Russo followed with another sexy female, Natasha Fatale, in the live action animated feature "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" (2000) with Robert De Niro as the "Fearless Leader".

After “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” Russo appeared in the action comedy “Showtime” (2002), portraying the producer of a reality show that teams a arrogant actor (Eddie Murphy) and an old-school cop (Robert De Niro). Rene then played the unhappy housewife with an unhappy daughter (Zooey Deschanel) in “Big Trouble” (2002), a ensemble comedy about a group of people brought together by a suitcase bomb at a Miami airport. The film sat idle for six months due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and was finally released with little fanfare or audience attendance—something about bombs and hijacked airplanes kept people away.

Russo then took a few years vacation away from the film and movie business, but returned in 2005 to star alongside Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey in “Two For the Money,” a gambling story about a college basketball player (McConaughey) who turned to sports betting after being trained by a consultant (Pacino) who sees his talent for predicting the right outcome for games.

Russo then starred opposite Dennis Quaid in the romantic comedy, “Yours, Mine and Ours” (2005), about widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer who fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.