Theresa Russell
Theresa Russell ( born March 20, 1957 in San Diego / California as Theresa Paup ) is an American actress.
Biography
Theresa Russell was born as the eldest of five children in San Diego and grew up in Burbank. She played in high school in an amateur theater group and worked since the age of twelve as a model. At the age of sixteen, she dropped out of school and attended two years of drama school of Lee Strasberg. Her film debut in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976 ) Dustin Hoffman made it visible in which it was casting for its production hour of parole for the female lead. With Black out - Anatomy of a passion she succeeded in 1980, the final breakthrough as an actress. They met with the director Nicolas Roeg also know her future husband. Other important roles she played in The Black Widow (1987 ), Impulse - Driven by dangerous feelings (1990 ), The whore and Kafka in the year ( 1991).
Theresa Russell has two sons. She was married from 1982 with director Nicolas Roeg, the marriage ended in divorce.
As a child, her favorite character was the snake in the Jungle Book.
"She sometimes seems like a woman Encountered at a Greyhound station and inveigled before the camera - unready, ungiving, suspicious, yet definitely there; more than an actress. "
" Sometimes she seems like a woman that can be found at the bus station, tricked by the camera - unprepared, repellent, careful and yet very present; more than an actress. "