Keri Russell is a
Golden Globe-winning
American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of
made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s,
she came to
fame for portraying the title role of
Felicity Porter on the series
Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002. Keri has since appeared in
several films, including We Were Soldiers, The Upside of
Anger and
Mission: Impossible
III.
Russell first appeared on television as a
cast member of the New
Mickey Mouse Club variety
show on the
Disney Channel.
she was on
the show from 1991 to 1993, and in the last year co-starred with
future pop stars Christina Aguilera,
Britney Spears, and
Justin Timberlake. Keri subsequently appeared in several film and television roles, including the 1996
made-for-television film The Babysitter's
Seduction.
She also had a role on the short-lived
soap opera series
Malibu Shores the same year.
In 1994,
she appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's
music video Always with
Jack Noseworthy.
From 1998 to 2002,
Russell starred as the title
character on the successful WB Network series
Felicity;
she won a
Golden Globe for the role in 1999. Russell's
long and curly hair was
one of her character's defining characteristics, and a drastic hairstyle
change at
the beginning of
the show's second season was considered to be the cause of a significant
drop in the
show's ratings. As a result, new policies were enacted at the network requiring hairstyle
changes by
cast to
be approved by the network's
executives. Felicity 's ratings drop also coincided with the show's
move to a Sunday night
time slot, so it is unclear exactly how much effect the hairstyle change actually had. During the show's run, Russell appeared in the films Eight
Days a Week,
The Curve and
Mad About
Mambo, all of which received only limited releases in
North America. Her
next role was in the
Mel Gibson-directed film We Were Soldiers, playing the wife of an
American serviceman. The film was released in
March of 2002, two months before
the end of Felicity 's run.
When
Felicity ended,
Russell took a break from acting and even considered quitting the profession.
she moved to
New York City and took two years off to avoid
the business of
Hollywood,
spending time with
friends. Russell subsequently
made her off-Broadway
stage debut in 2004, appearing opposite
Jeremy Piven,
Andrew McCarthy, and
Ashlie Atkinson in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. In 2005,
She returned to television and film, beginning with an appearance in
the Hallmark Hall of
fame television
movie Magic of Ordinary
Days and in the theatrical film The Upside of
Anger, where she appeared alongside
Kevin Costner,
Joan Allen and
Evan Rachel Wood. In the same year, Russell also appeared in the television miniseries
Into the West.
Although a number of her
Felicity co-
stars went on to appear in producer J. J. Abrams' series, Alias,
Russell declined invitations to be part of
the show. In a seminar at
the Museum of Television and
Radio, Abrams said, "I've asked Keri if
she would
ever do it, and I usually get this,
sort of like, giggle—and then
She hangs up". In 2005, Abrams asked Russell to
join the
cast of
Mission: Impossible
III, a film he directed, and she accepted. The film was released on
May 5, 2006. In the
summer of 2006, Russell was chosen to be a
celebrity spokeswoman for CoverGirl Cosmetics. Before she was in
Mission Impossible: III she was screen tested for the role of "
Lois Lane" in
Superman Returns but
lost the role to
Kate Bosworth whom she is co-starring with in The Girl In
The Park.
Russell has also starred in three films that are scheduled for 2007 releases: Waitress, an independent film in which
she plays a pregnant waitress in
the American South,
August Rush, a
drama, and Butterfly: A Grimm
Love Story (titled Rohtenburg for its German release), in which
She plays
Katie Armstrong, a graduate
student who writes a thesis paper on an infamous cannibal murder
case. Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story was
set to
open in Germany on
March 9, 2006, but a German
court issued an injunction
banning the film in that
country. She was most recently
cast opposite
Sigourney Weaver,
Kate Bosworth and
Alessandro Nivola in the thriller The Girl In
The Park, which is scheduled to begin filming in
New York City on November 13, 2006.
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