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Karen Russell
Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
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-…
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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. - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders
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2022
The Devil You Know
Movie Announcer (voice)
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1997
Bette Midler: Diva Las Vegas
Movie Self - Showgirl
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1994
Night Realm
Movie
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1993
B-Movie Queens Revealed
Movie Shawnee (archive footage)
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1991
Bugsy
Movie Dancer
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1991
Lethal Games
Movie Coco
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1991
Mobsters
Movie Showgirl
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1991
Shock 'Em Dead
Movie Michelle
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1991
Dead Certain
Movie Isabella
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1991
Shock Cinema: Volume Four
Movie Herself / Actress
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1990
Havana
Movie Dancer #2
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1990
Mob Boss
Movie Mary
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1990
The Girl I Want
Movie Lisa
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1990
Dream On
TV show Woman #1
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1990
Dick Tracy
Movie Dancer
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1990
The Banker
Movie Fran
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1990
Wilding
Movie Cathy
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1989
Murder Weapon
Movie Amy
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1989
Dr. Alien
Movie Coed #2
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1989
Easy Wheels
Movie Candy
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1989
Vice Academy
Movie Shawnee
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1989
Hell High
Movie Teen Girl
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1989
Blood Nasty
Movie Mona
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1989
American Rampage
Movie Hooker #1
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1988
Memorial Valley Massacre
Movie Emily (as Dusty Woods)
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1988
Phoenix the Warrior
Movie Mohawk
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1988
Hellbent
Movie Topless Woman
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1986
Modern Girls
Movie Music Video Dancer
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1985
Tenement
Movie Chula
