Karen Russell
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 8.339 |
Birthday | 1962-04-12 |
Place of Birth | Erie, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | Dusty Woods, |
1988
Phoenix the Warrior
3.455/22
Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots...
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Phoenix the Warrior
1989
The Banker
4.417/12
High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at t...
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The Banker
1989
Blood Nasty
2.8/5
Roy is killed by a couple of jewel thieves and then brought back to life and possessed by deceased serial killer "Blade". He returns home and his moth...
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Blood Nasty
1989
American Rampage
3.8/6
Ex-San Francisco vice cop Samantha Roarke and Hollywood homicide detective Ryan Hayes team up to investigate an international drug cartel in Los Angel...
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American Rampage
1989
Vice Academy
4.5/27
This tale tells the story of female police cadets training to join the Hollywood vice squad. During training, the toothsome rookies are assigned to in...
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Vice Academy
1989
Murder Weapon
4.609/23
Two mobster daughters leave a sanitarium, host a party inviting ex-boyfriends, who then start disappearing mysteriously.
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Murder Weapon
1990
The Girl I Want
2/1
A brainy girl turns bimbo and a football star turns brainy in order to attract each other's attention, only to discover that they liked each other the...
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The Girl I Want
1990
Wilding
7.2/5
Two detectives are out to nail a gang of teenagers who have run wild through the city and brutally raped a woman.
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Wilding
1989
Dr. Alien
5.1/24
When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a ser...
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Dr. Alien
1985
Tenement
5.6/28
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
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Tenement
1991
Bugsy
6.384/371
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitat...
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Bugsy
1991
Lethal Games
2/2
A criminal mob hires a gang of thugs to subdue a small urban community, but the community decides to fight back.
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Lethal Games
1991
Mobsters
6.219/169
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....
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Mobsters
1991
Dead Certain
2/1
A detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were i...
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Dead Certain
1991
Shock 'Em Dead
4.2/21
Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he mak...
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Shock 'Em Dead
1991
Shock Cinema: Volume Four
6/1
A documentary about special makeup effects on low budget horror films. Includes behind-the-scenes footage from Murder Weapon (1989), Robot Ninja (1989...
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Shock Cinema: Volume Four
1990
Mob Boss
4.8/4
A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.
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Mob Boss
1989
Easy Wheels
3.9/8
A group of leather-clad bikers are on the trail of the female bikers who are stealing babies all over the state and selling them on the black market.
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Easy Wheels
1988
Hellbent
4.9/11
A bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.
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Hellbent
1989
Memorial Valley Massacre
4.1/31
Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.
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Memorial Valley Massacre
1989
Hell High
4.8/30
A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and th...
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Hell High
1997
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
7.3/5
Diva Las Vegas was a show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas starring Bette Midler performing as singer and comedian. The one-time performance...
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Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
1990
Dick Tracy
6.141/907
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...
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Dick Tracy
1994
Night Realm
2/1
Action-fantasy.
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Night Realm
2022
The Devil You Know
7/34
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may...
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The Devil You Know
1986
Modern Girls
5.5/37
Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s ro...
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