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| Rene
Russo
Born: February 17, 1954, Burbank, California, USA
Sign: Aquarius
Nickname in school:
Jolly Green Giant
Height:
5'8"
Father: Nino Russo, sculptor; abandoned family when Rene was two.
Mother: Shirley, factory worker, bartender
Sister: Toni
Education:
Dropout of Burroughs High School (in 10th grade)
Husband: Dan Gilroy,
(March '92 - present)
Daughter: Rose, born August, 1993
Currently
lives in Brentwood, Ca with her husband and daughter. | |
Though she became a top-dollar
fashion model straight out of high school, the leggy brunette came into her own
only after living through a decidedly trying childhood and adolescence marked
by parental abandonment, four years spent wearing a body cast, and pre-pubescent
gawkiness that caused her peers to christen her the "Jolly Green Giant." One of
the fashion industry's top cover girls for over a decade, Russo traded that metier
for an acting career after a photo shoot for a maternity catalog prompted a timely
reassessment of her rapidly diminishing supermodel status. After spending a few
years doing the token girlfriend/supportive wife thing, she rapidly ascended to
the seven-figure salary range following her breakthrough tough-girl
performances opposite Eastwood and Gibson and a high-profile turn as a B-movie
scream queen in 1995's Get Shorty.
Read
the full biography.
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*Rene
on TV
| "Age
helps. Hitting forty helped me. Marriage helps you tremendously because you either
die in marriage or you make it. There's no in-between. I tell people who are about
to get married,'Oh, congratulations.' And the next thing out of my mouth is: 'Get
into therapy. Get into therapy before it falls apart. Learn how to communicate."
"I don't know where in the Bible it says, 'Don't be nude in a motion
picture.'" | |
